I never wanted to be the old head that shytted on young people's music. I do think mainstream rap has regressed in terms of pure lyricism, but the fact is that people are more concerned with the beat than the words in the song nowadays. That's hard to accept for many but it was hard to accept artists not playing instruments. For what it's worth, I think today's hip hop producers are phenomenal and today's beats are so much more complex than what I listened to growing up.
I also like many of today's MC's like Joey Badass, Curren$y, A$AP Rocky, Nipsey Hussle, Action Bronson, YG, Stalley, Roc Marciano, and even singer rappers like Drake and Future. Although some of these down south trap dudes don't appeal to me, I still get down to that stuff in a club type setting. So although it will never be like the 90's, I can appreciate what we have going on today.
wait hold on. you said you think todays producers are phenomenal and todays beats are so much more complex.
What beats are these my friend?
i'm not saying i havent heard any hot beats. i have. i'm saying i would never make that statement talking about this entire generation of hiphop beats. these beast are not creative at all. They for the most part are all the same. 90% o them are bootleg southern trap beats. the rest are bootleg drake beats. (which we now know are other people's type of songs that him and his producer steals/i mean borrows from).
there is literally NO innovation in these beats. Due to the internet and youtube, everyone now knows how to make that triplet high hat sound and the triplet snare sound, and how to go up and down the scales with the 808. and because everyone has to piggy back off of their favorite rapper. everyone has a beat up called "DRAKE TYPE BEAT", " so and so type beat."
this is a top hiphop song right now
That aint Special. You better be glad i dont have my OLD tapes. i said it, TAPES. when i first called myself making beats with a keyboard. i've made a beat that sounds just like this. simple melody and a beat. you know whats different in mines vs this one? They are using all the same drump loops that everyone uses today. even the rise effects are over used in every song. you hear those triplet highhats. haa haa. told you. that rise sound is from the original Fruity loops. i would know, i was messing with FL studio before it was called FL. it was originaly Fruity loops. was only designed for electronica music and techno. no one in the industry was using it back then. my homies use to try to clown me when i use to try out all the new software for hiphop production. but i told them. this is the wave of the future. i was right of course.
Half of the songs this gen falls in love with sounds like old too short songs from the late 80's. mixed with a 8 ball and MJG vibe. they just update the drum pattern to sound like everyones stuff out right now. thats literally it.
i mean its 2015 and we still hearing dudes using the "ay ay" sample of dudes saying it in the background to keep the beat going. that was being used in the early 2000's. they are using it still in 2015.
most of these beats are not ground breaking.
let me explain to you whats ground breaking.
WHEN THIS ISH DROPPED.. we were all like whoooaaaa. it was AT Aliens by outkast. yes the beat is simple and a sample. but the manner in which they filtered up the sample was not done before in hiphop. nothing sounded like that before that moment. and again go back and listen to the beat you hear those triplet snares. i told you thats OLD south. what you hear today aint new at all.
but guess what, back then no one was duplicating that beat/ or that outkast sound. its was too hard to duplicate.
now its easy to mimic another beat makers sound because odds are he's using the same melodies, keys, chords, drum loops, rise effect as everyone else. and they have youtube videos showing you how it was made and replicated. so you can copy it too. so this makes dudes think they're good at making music but they're not. they're good at making copied versions of something thats already hot.
i mean half of the Wu tang beats that dropped back when they were hot. were so different that no one could duplicate that style. no one was doing dr dre's style. and his style was forever changing up every time he dropped.
the only thing they do today is they sample a lot less and play the same melodies the last man played. so to keep more money in their pockets. but the beat still sounds like the last guys beat.
about these young dudes. How you gonna claim some shyt as your own, that started 20 years before you existed, and expect the original generation to just step aside? 
