When did being a good lyricist with bars become a sin in Hip Hop?

[NoHalfWay]

That's why Tetsuo & Youth is album of the year

Supreme lyricism meets great musicality and catchy hooks.

 

[We Major]

It's the "that shyt bangs " era.

 

[B86]

nikkas WHOLE mindsets are clubs, bytches, money, and jewelery, so of course they don't want to hear nothing else.

 

[Zach Lowe]

young thug has more bars than nazz

 

[Knicksman20]

young thug has more bars than nazz

 

[AJaRuleStan]

The values in the culture changed. My hypothesis to explain how and why it happened is this - the idea of seriously devaluing lyrics took root in the south sometime during the 2000s and really exploded among the culture in the last 3 or so years

My theory for why it exploded is the increase of non-lyrical rappers producing mega hit-records. For the culture to demand music like Fetty Wap, Future, and Thugger to the degree that it currently does, the condition of lyrics being a high regarded value had to change, since the real popular artist don't meet that metric.

As the culture morphs to accept that type of music it puts a constraint on rappers who depend on bars to draw, which is why I predict a artist like David East will never become big as a Future, and why teens from certain black sub-cultures will never give a fukk about a Nas.

 

[semicko82]

I think society has gotten dumber and add short attention span. I'm not against turn up music, but you tell there's an imbalance of what gets play.

 

[Zero]

That's why Tetsuo & Youth is album of the year

Supreme lyricism meets great musicality and catchy hooks.

 

[semicko82]

To be fair the catchy hook and hot beat has always been the mainstay throughout hip hop history, but it was always balanced out.

 

[HustlerOfVirginiA]

It didn't, dad

 

[intilectual recipricol]

when running like a cheetah became lyricism... nikkaz was like, "this is lyrics man, get that bullshyt outta here "

and ever since then actual lyricists get dissed without people even hearin good lyrics.

 

[ISO]

Wale, Ross, Kendrick, Drake, Sean, Cole can all spit at a technical level what you mean

 

[N*ggerFa*ot]

Nothing wrong with being lyrical, its when your shyt is boring to listen to and all you rely on is your lyrics (hopsin, nas at times, etc.)

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Someone post that video about how being lyrical is actually the only way to get to the top of the game.

It is best selling rappers with the longest careers always got substance. If you want hits and 15 minutes then go for hits

It's a bunch of illiterate clowns knocking lyricism. I've actually heard dudes say they don't wanna "think" when listening to music or pull out a dictionary

I also hate that lyrical myracle shyt to me that ain't lyricism

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

In my era even girls were rocking with dudes like fab and jadakiss