not really, we reward mediocrity. I think that we are partly to blame for the complete lack of talent in the new gen. we just let anyone pop off and have zero standards.
if anything we are too harsh on other genres like pop. the amount of s*** talking when it comes to pop music is bizarre, just enjoy the music man no need to feel like u are too good to listen to it

I would say some popular consensus opinions that’ll make people think you have bad taste if you disagree are things like Kendrick being the goat, Kanye being a genius, Big Sean being mid, Drake being bad, etc.

Basically, similar to as you said, stuff the “real hip hop” heads and Twitter crowd will kill you over

My brother in Allah, you are describing exactly what I’m saying.

You don't wanna see my middle school yearbook pics

I know they hard as hell

Nah we not harsh enough too much bullshit out there

Twitter/KTT should be the easiest platforms to gauge what the public thinks and get a wide range of opinions on music,

but imo they (moreso Twitter) just end up being an echo chamber of ppl saying what they think everybody else will agree with, which is why these 'opinions' seem so popular