Why can't I enjoy 90's hip-hop?

[Iceson Beckford]

Ain't nobody in my circle listening to Nas outside 2 Egyptian nikkas shyt I'm a huge hip hop head and I'm not rushing to listen to Nas Outside of NY State of Mind, Nas is Like , World is Yours I don't play Nas like that

You a TI stan right? My friends are probably just weirdos but we fukk with everything from Sade to Chief Keef. Good music is just good music. I've noticed cacs prefer harder lyricism like wu tang over trap tho.

 

[B-Mint94]

I'm 23. I like a lot of 90s hip hop. This shyt right here in particular sounds incredible:

 

[Art Barr]

20 years from now u mention Drake and nikkas gon look at u like

notice nobody told him to look up and listen to;

fresh prince
chunky a

yet duke in here wondering why he has disconnect in this day and age culturally to hiphop and is probably wondering what is going on.

no person over the age of twelve to fourteen was a big fresh prince music fan if they were a bboy back then.
the problem is the culture has been hijacked by the industry to the point.
they have you thinking these sellout culturally wack nikkaz are making real cultural skilled based submission.
when they really giving you the equivalent of the evolution of brian austin green.
spawned from the mtv oversaturation of the fresh prince and gone completely awry by the time.
naughty's everything gonna be alright was the premiere prison industrial economy gateway marketed video.


they led y'all so astray,...they got y'all talembout arsenio hall meets brian austin green level talent as the lead cultural connection based draw on a gay pedophile's label of all things too.


then, those same new gen fans will be trying to talk all types of bullshyt and spin this aspect and make passes.
all because culturally they are compromised or never was as well.



art barr

 

[Art Barr]

I'm 23. I like a lot of 90s hip hop. This shyt right here in particular sounds incredible:

this is the album for the mid nineties that drew the line in the sand.
which is completely juxtaposed culturally from rd, the thread starter is using as his gateway.

funny thing is,...
if dela was not hijacked and forced to kill the daisy age.
things may have been better when they were a flagship moving forward
except dela would not sell out like guys much later.
who were made into the defacto flagship draws because of the emotional loss to big and subsequent sellout culture thief jiggyism.


art barr

 

[JKO123]

this is the album for the mid nineties that drew the line in the sand.
which is completely juxtaposed culturally from rd, the thread starter is using as his gateway.

funny thing is,...
if dela was not hijacked and forced to kill the daisy age.
things may have been better when they were a flagship moving forward
except dela would not sell out like guys much later.
who were made into the defacto flagship draws because of the emotional loss to big and subsequent sellout culture thief jiggyism.


art barr

Art Barr had next too

shame he died too early

 

[Art Barr]

Art Barr had next too

shame he died too early

FIDDY : gon get cho reefer!
nikka i ain't dead.



art barr

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

You a TI stan right? My friends are probably just weirdos but we fukk with everything from Sade to Chief Keef. Good music is just good music. I've noticed cacs prefer harder lyricism like wu tang over trap tho.

Yeah TI the Gawd but I love that era

 

[Iceson Beckford]

Yeah TI the Gawd but I love that era

Second album I copped was Paper Trail, how would you rank 90s,00s and now?

 

[bucks3115]

You can't enjoy it because you are 18.

You haven't lived enough to understand of appreciate it. Revisit it again at 25+.

2pac was 18 with the life of a 25 year old when he was 25 he lived the life of a 40 year old.

Lots of 90's artist sang about real adult shyt. I was just listening to this song by Lauryn Hill. shyt is timeless. It was deeper than the shallowness of a lot the songs you mentioned that were surface level deep. Many 90's artists lived their music. This song is a check point of why Lauryn never released another album.

You can't enjoy it because you are 18.

You haven't lived enough to understand of appreciate it. Revisit it again at 25+.

2pac was 18 with the life of a 25 year old when he was 25 he lived the life of a 40 year old.

Lots of 90's artist sang about real adult shyt. I was just listening to this song by Lauryn Hill. shyt is timeless. It was deeper than the shallowness of a lot the songs you mentioned that were surface level deep. Many 90's artists lived their music. This song is a check point of why Lauryn never released another album.

U took me back bruh

I remember j.cole sample this song

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Second album I copped was Paper Trail, how would you rank 90s,00s and now?

90's above all in terms of quality .. 10's after (10-13 shyts on all the 00's) and 00's last (I still love that era but ehh)

 

[Iceson Beckford]

90's above all in terms of quality .. 10's after (10-13 shyts on all the 00's) and 00's last (I still love that era but ehh)

100% agree, for all the criticism current rap gets I think the top rappers now are decent and ringtone rap is probably the WOAT era

 

[CrimsonTider]

18 year olds that fukk with 90s rap are certified clowns

 

[NinoBrown]

"They're just bars. There's no real melody"

Prediction: In 20 Years Black People Aren't Gonna Like Rap Music PERIOD

Rap listeners have been conditioned to gravitate away from bars/words to melodies.

Listeners are becoming more and more lazy when it comes to actual lyricism, and sing-songy, melodic, cat in the hat, Dr. Suess flows have taken precedent.

OP is 18 so of course "words" will be a chore for him to listen to. Concentrating on every word a rapper says is becoming a thing of the past. Its more about "vibing" to a melodic flow over a hot beat. Subject matter be damned. Just a hot beat and catchy flow saying anything is all that's needed today to capture the attention of listeners.

No offense to anybody reading this, but the "intelligence" in hip-hop overall has been drained severely. (That's a FACT, not an opinion)

This melodic, sing-songy rap is like nursery rhymes to little kids. Its hypnotizing. Its catchy. It requires little to no work of the brain. Its easy to listen to and digest. Modern-day hip-hop for the most part is aimed at the equivalent of 6th graders.

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Unfortunately OP grew up in a time of Hip Hop being for simple-minded folk and Sesame Street rap has taken over as long as there is trap beats attached to it.

 

[Burger King]

if you listening to hip hop and thinking lyrics arent for you then maybe you are listening to the wrong genre ...... like i said before go listen to some rnb or pop music if u want catchy harmonies

 

[Greenhornet]

The honest truth is ... because you were raised different

shyt wasnt fun back then ... and now everything is fun and goofy

It was also the beginning of technology, so you were starting to stunt in your rhymes
another thing this generation has no clue about ... In the 90s you could have a car phone
and nobody else around would have even seen one. There were real levels to this flossing shyt

absolutely no gimmicks or computer programs to hold your hand
people actually hated eachother and fought
Drake in 92 would have been a different man cats would be at his shows trying to fukk him up daily
He wouldnt be the same rapper at all.. shyt was more real and dangerous