@Realfam2007 you peep this?

OP's right, I know people be claiming there was heap of trash in the previous years and periods of hip-hop, but at the same time we got lots of notable classics to look back on.

The biggest problem is within the past couple of years or so, there was barely any hip-hop albums that stood out and to be considered amazing, let alone a classic. Before you say that I'm stuck in the 90's or whatever, even up until 2016/2017 we got some fantastic albums. It doesn't help that the main artists are taking longer hiatuses between albums and these s***ty meme rappers are filling the void.

yup thanks I’m learning a lot

You called?

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They were always right. Y’all just let 15 year old white kids on the internet convince you that disrespecting old rappers was cool.

Loads of rappers still stand out tho

You just became an oldhead bro hate to tell you this

Have I got an alt flight club style 🤔

Edit: nah I’ve always been an old head

This is the year in summery

Tik Tok, Bundles, Fornite, Barbz, Deluxe Editions, Snitching

Lmao KTT1 format popping up had me shook for a second

everyone does

in most arenas of life growth comes with understanding what the old heads were actually right about

The youth destroyed hip hop

examples?

old school always better

Funny thing is my “rebel phase” was agreeing with the old heads back when Nas dropped Hip Hop is Dead in 06. We were in the middle of the ringtone rap era with songs like Laffy Taffy reaching #1.

"My arts is crafty darts/ while y'all stuck on Laffy Taffy/Wondering, how'd y'all * get past me?"

• Ghost

Funny thing is the reason the ringtone era died was because people figured out how easy it was to make their own ringtones and the industry died since they couldn’t charge $2.50 a tone anymore.

KRS called out Nelly for misogyny in his music and videos and was largely ignored/called old. Disrespecting the legends isn’t new.

“ When I say 'hip-hop is dead', basically America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead ... Our way of thinking is dead, our commerce is dead. Everything in this society has been done. It's like a slingshot, where you throw the muthafucka back and it starts losing speed and is about to fall down. That's where we are as a country ... what I mean by 'hip-hop is dead' is we're at a vulnerable state. If we don't change, we gonna disappear like Rome. I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop ... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say.”

-Nas

The legends have been warning about the labels and vultures exploiting the culture for some time now. Are we there yet? It’s easy to point at 6ix9ine and his fan base and say that we are, but we’re just two years removed from an all time year in 2018. Memphis scene is really nice right now too. I think we just need someone big to drop a classic to shift the limelight over.

Streaming era really changed things. It shifted the purchasing power even more to the youth. My niece is on a Spotify family account contributing more to the streams than I ever could because I gotta work.

This. Drake loves Hip Hop and that in my opinion is one of the factors why he is so successful. I know that he studied Hov, Kanye and Wayne closely. Looking at everything they had success with and what their failures were. That's why he plays this game so well.
And that's something that's been missing from the new acts. They don't look at what people did before them and without they won't ever be able to get the pole position

I’m ready for the New wave of hip hop/rap

This is it honestly. I would even extend this to 2018, as that year produced decent albums too. But we were SPOILED in the middle of the last decade with great body of works. It’s more bad projects than good nowadays. Thug, Future, Travis, Uzi we’re even making amazing projects then. Like someone here said, streaming really f***ed up everything. The labels capitalize off of the numbers so younger artists aren’t trying to take the time to work on perfecting their craft and stand out. It’s just fast food now. I don’t think it has anything to do with us getting older

2019 was just a s*** year for rap

Recency bias making you think this whole era was s*** but there been several classics per year up until 2019

why can’t we appreciate both the old and new