Mr Morale
Let God Sorr Em Out
CMIYGL
Pray for Haiti
Alfredo
Blue Lips

are the only valid ones here to be considered GOAT imo

Carti gets an HM for changing the culture with WLR tho

Also Doechii and GNX need to be on here imo

OP is not wrong.

Great albums from new artist are rare.

I think we see more new artist emerging to breaking points in the second half of the decade though, I am hopeful for that atleast.

Doechii is on here and I didn't include GNX to showcase more artist diversity.

Tbh, the best 80's albums >> the best 20's albums but I still think the 2020's has much more variety and higher number of good rap albums overall.

Real lol i’m like that too

Just listen to the good hip hop, it ain't hard there's plenty of it. You're creating your own hullabaloo by giving a s*** about mainstream this, mainstream that, while a dozen great albums fly right past you each month.

I will say that there's not the same excitement in the air rn as there was in the 10s, not many mainstream artists genuinely pushing boundaries and evolving the sound

but outside the mainstream and especially the US rn tbh there's a ton of fascinating scenes that popped up, Manchester for example, London, China, Vietnam, also the Sweden continues killing it

Streaming made music into background content so excitement is hard to come by.

Albums? Off top of my head MBDTF, TC, NWTS, GKMC, DAMN, TPAB, Drogas Wave, WTT, Yeezus, Daytona, Rodeo(or Birds), Distant Relatives, KSG are probably among my favorites. Then you got the best work from that Future, Thug etc...group as well imo. Some great madlib projects, run the jewels, few good Cole projects, Life is Good etc...

The first half of the 2010s, especially, felt very alive in rap imo

When Drake, Future, Travis and even Ye are still relevant and expected to drop fire--shit is bad lol no other era did we expect legacy acts to drop classics. Imagine s***ting on Snoop and Ice Cube in the mid to late 00s cause they weren't dropping Doggystyle or Amerikkka's Most level s*** This era? People were s***ting on Lil Wayne a month ago for dropping another Carter

Hip hop has become mostly for kids and kids dont care about that s***

And yet no one is making fun music

Six likes, six rings, six hours ago

hip-hop in the mid-to-late 2010s was fun and exciting but it definitely ruined the genre in the long run and probably should have never happened.

Facts. Streaming has become what kids care about the most imo

I know kids who are hip hop heads, what i was tryna say is kids dont care about politics etc

yeah did not like that s*** at all, 2019-2020 wave sucked man
was also the street rap wave of these boring ass beats, the rappers yes were good and they had great melodies but their beats and creative vision was so boring

Cause mfers more worried about being on some stream, impressing kids and promoting gambling instead

It’s over. The media killed the consciousness

Anyone who thinks the 20s can compare to the 80s lowkey needs to get beyond their preferences

Nothing in the 20s is even better than Whodini albums

My own take is that the 80's has higher highs as far as classics/masterpieces but the 20's has more variety and a higher number of good/great albums.

But it's apples and oranges because hip hop has grown way more as a genre and the Internet allows for more accessibility.