Coming up I remember brushing off everything they were saying as dust and outdated and championing for my era instead (Lil Pump, Lil Yachty saying f*** Tupac etc) but with the recent events of 6ix9ine and looking at the landscape of rap I’m starting to realize they had a point.

Listening to classic albums like Ready to Die, OB4CL, Illmatic the soundscapes and poetry displayed on these albums are light years ahead of the fast food music being put out today

I guess the moral of the story is to always listen to your elders

Always knew what they meant lol

Did you go through a rebel phase and brush off what they said too?

Yeah it has become so washed

They're two different sub genres of rap we know today tbh, let em both do their thing

Of course they were, but us youngins still don’t wanna listen

This though. Obviously “trap” has dipped in quality but still a lot of dope s*** happening in rap rn

Always knew they were telling the truth but the f*** am I supposed to do. Fast food music goes crazy sometimes and the best artists take too long to drop

It’s all about balance

crazy how every artist who didn't pay homage to their predecessors became irrelevant

Respect is huge in hip hop

Too much trash out now

cole was right all along on 1985

Ion know why y'all didn't want to believe them when they said those dudes were trash...

after all these threads about it the oldhead in me is slowly awakening

I thought "if a nigga was hating call them Joe Budden" my g :word: :word:

If Kendrick dropped that song people would be calling him a messiah. His message was 100% accurate

Kids on here care more about memes

Drake has still been relevant for a decade tho?

and dudes were really on lil pump's side on KTT

look where pump is now

Na they been saying that s*** for so long and I been fw rappers old heads been trashing since early Wayne early cud and early drake to early thug more recently.

Wayne was hated so much by old heads back in the day when everyone hated the south and refused to acknowledge he was the BRA they always just hate new s***.

Honestly the one rapper that old heads were wrong for hating on was Uzi cause he can actually rap. And the fact that he makes music that promotes dancing heavily is very traditional of old hip-hop. Dude just dresses and looks goofy sometimes.

But I mean...we did have Shock G/Digital Underground and a song called "The Humpty Dance" at one point. So maybe Uzi ain't that different after all