Apr 28, 2022
Bobby_96Here's the thing. It's not that the past was less creative.
It's just that a lot of creativity in the past has been copied and "Shang Tsunged" so much that it doesn't seem creative to people anymore.
Plus, the Internet has helped us get exposure to all types of weird acts that you would have to go to a record shop to discover in the past.
How many times have we've seen Three 6 Mafia's beats and flows get straight jacked by the "creative" generation of today?
And Outkast, RZA, MF DOOM, Tribe, Bone Thugs, Kool Keith, prime Eminem, Pharrell, Timbo, prime Lupe, Kanye, etc. have done tons of creative s*** in hip hop before that has gotten borrowed and copied so much that people don't think of it as "creative" anymore.
So, it's all a matter of perspective.
Production is subjective.
But, pure spitting and lyrical wise, this is beyond false lol.
lmao in the span of a few months in 2018 we had 2 hits at the same time jack the same 3 6 mafia song
- Apr 28, 2022
Hell, name me one hip hop song as "creative" as these in the past 2 years? I dare you.
- Apr 28, 2022
as much as i love nice for what too we also had two hits at the same time use the same lauryn hill song
Apr 28, 2022I hope he's not including himself, I'm also going to need a list of who he's actually talking about. This statement is too vague.
- Apr 28, 2022
Crazy how nobody answered the question to my last post.
And that's the thing. Production might be more creative or arguably better because of technological advances and the Internet but how many truly creative rap songs or even albums do we have today?
If anything, the creativity of rap songs in the past 5-6 years has gotten redundant and not very conceptual.
Lupe made a hit song using skateboarding as a metaphor for life("Kick Push." Lil Wayne made a song where he used being a doctor diagnosing hip hop as a metaphor for saving the game("Dr. Carter." How many songs do we have like that from newer rappers?
Rapping over a bunch of rage beats or crooning over entire songs ain't super creative.
I'll give Carti his props for being genuinely creative though.
