im pretty sure alot of people on this forum have mental problems and dont really gaf about hip hop culture

Kanye has fallen off

Drake has fallen off

Travis has fallen off (wasn't on long anyways)

Uzi cooling down

Future & Thug slowing down

No Kendrick albums

Cole still trash

RIP hiphop

Trash comprehension. Thread isn't about hip hop.

I know that's why I said "and". Trash comprehension.

they always expose themselves with threads like these

Roddy Rich the only good thing that's happened to hiphop in the last year

Dababy is trash

then your comment isn't relevant and you just wanted to talk

you came in here outright labeling me as having "mental health issues" like i shouldn't be listened to or i'm defective or something.

Bruh it's peace, I like southern rap.

thread isn't about rap at all

I'm talking about the culture

Obviously there are great irrelevant artists out there

I've been listening to Roddy way before he blew up, just so happens that he is a great artist and went IN on billboard

I felt like this two years ago then I went through a retro wave phase...now I'm back to listening to artists I enjoy

Not as much groundbreaking s***. Outside of a few people who is really bringing something new at a high level?

Thank you

Yeah just growing up tbh
Realizing you don’t relate or want to relate to a certain type of music anymore definitely affected me and why music don’t hit the same/i don’t feel the need explore new artists
I listen to music for different reasons than I did before and I don’t even listen to much of the same music I used to listen to
Just changing and growing

Ngl I feel OP and I'm not even that old, it's just most new age rappers don't hit and sound like a former shell of their inspirations. Less outstanding work is being produced and most acclaimed rappers have either fell off or don't drop frequently anymore

examples?

This time 3 years ago i was heavy on youngboy kodak xxx uzi all the young niggas now i barely listen to rap and mostly lofi and jazz
I still appreciate new artists and albums but don’t get connected that much anymore
I also loved the idea of being up to new artists before everybody else but now i just don’t care that much anymore

Bro do you produce?

When you hear music that is truly amazing you don’t need to focus of any technical elements like production, you just feel it

Whereas when you hear mid it’s easy to say it’s because the production/vocals are bland/derivative/lacking in character etc

The music I stan doesn’t suffer from the latter

some music just hits more when you’re in a certain phase/era of your life
when you’re out of that you don’t relate because you’re not that person anymore
i get what you’re saying to other ppl tho

Personally one of the biggest reasons my favorite rappers....well remain my favorites are not only them producing quality work but listening to them during a certain period in my life and their music usually takes me back. Another reason why I don't really connect to these newcomers tbh

Maybe I'm too nostalgic or something

Complete opposite, as I’ve gotten older I’ve enjoyed it more. Listening to music I would have thought was wack 5 years ago.

tbh we’ve been saying this for years but it isn’t coming. This is for a lot of reasons, one of them being that there’s no gatekeepers anymore. Someone ITT mentioned that we aren’t at the mercy of MTV and s*** and while it means more talent and it also means saturation.

We’re never going to have non niche artists anymore imo. Everyone wants to get on the playlists so they make music that would make it instead of worrying about making great albums.

See this is what worries me about the future of rap, like are we going to see another hard hitting classic to the level of GKMC again?

“Cast” says a lot about how so many of you on here even engage with music