art split into very distinct styles, which explored a lot of different things

this already happened, happened over a decade before carti and uzi and yeat in fact

whereas hip hop artists are now making very similar songs instead

i don't think this is true

Believe it was called "R U Still Down", which eventually turned into Me Against The World.

Detailed a bit in this thread

ktt2.com/beef-what-ifs-pac-vs-ice-cube-big-vs-nas-long-read-32582925/2

young thug is the jackson pollock of hiphop