That s*** is ass

you were one of the main ones pushing opium on this site and saying hip hop was perfectly fine now that it’s manifested now you wanna disregard charts and numbers

you’re hilarious man

Don’t put that on him. Put that on Atlanta

no sense of honesty whatsoever

college dropout wasn’t just a project that just dropped it was a story. just listen to last call. so many cultural themes spoken about that paint the picture about the state of the rap game and the black plight at that time.

family business dropped right now would be a top song of the year

I heavily doubt that bro

Trab going crayz

i’ve literally never been a charts guy, why am i being painted as one

and yeah opium is fire as s*** lol, they’re also probably the most successful people in the new generation we can see around rn and they’re more popular than damn near EVERY single new era musician outside of like 4-5 artists (O Rod, Ice Spice, Yeat, Pinkpantheress)

He's one person at the end of the day. It's unreasonable to put that kind of pressure on any one person and then blame them when they don't live up to it.

Drake has done more than enough for rap already. If he retires today, he's in the GOAT conversation just off his run of dominance and the level of impact/influence he's had on the game.

I've said it before that at this point in time, Drake shouldn't be the one putting up the biggest numbers. And even if he is, he shouldn't still be the one driving the most traffic when it comes to debates/conversations about the culture. It should be the new generation of rappers doing that.

I don't think rap is dead but it's cooked if it can't get a new generation of rappers that can establish themselves, have real impact and last more than 2-3 years before falling off.

yup, we’re not gonna get anywhere

ill leave it at that

what kanye can do which kendrick and cole or whoever y’all put on new rushmore can’t do it actually make music and the rollout of the project a conversation.

travis album is just sounds. there is no statement. to pimp a butterfly is just a story. there is no call to response in any of these projects. they sound incredible but what is there to talk about? you are just suppose to consume.

this site was birthed because people NEEDED to talk about the subjects on ye projects. samples. fits. features. tweets. everything

dude said “popular than every new era musician” nigga THERE IS NO ONE ELSE

THEY ARE CARRIED BY AFFILIATION

Bro I love Kanye’s music and always will. Nobody will top his stuff because he had the full package. All I’m saying is that I agree that this site will not accept another Ye type of artist because the focus is on a different kind of rap music kind of like it was before College Dropout

I disagree. If it's hard to access something, that automatically assigns a high value to said thing.

Rap lost the moment anybody could rap and do it on a mainstream level. Go back 20-30 years ago and work your way down till the 2010s. Every single mainstream rapper, whether they only cared about scoring hits or not, the one thing you were sure of is that when it came down to it, if they needed to, they could all rap their asses off.

Today you have a plethora of Lil WhatTheFucks who think only vibes and being weird matters like that'll ever replace actual music. That or you have a bunch of street rappers only rapping to make a bag and not because they had a passion for it and also saw it as a way out of their current situations.

Nobody in real life is bumping Opium aside from teenage boys in the burbs bro

Lol it was so forced

don’t even bother dawg, he lives in an entirely different reality

Great song but no, different era.

This is the only place on the internet that refuses to unplug hip hop off the life support lol anywhere else — at least in my experiences — nobody listens to any new hip hop lol only the big names get spins when they put out new stuff and honestly, none of it resonates and sticks the way it used to.

They still think a savior's coming

They scared of the 6 and the 7

Why would I listen to trav when I have wizkid and el alfa

Pop culture has moved on from hip hop. It is what it is. Some of it is s***ty corporate misunderstanding and exploitation of the genre and culture, a lot of it is that the newer acts that are surfacing to the top and being pushed (to the extent that we can even cal it a “push”) by influencers, media personalities like Adam22, and hip hop publications on crutches like XXL are guys making music that is so niche-sounding and violent and just overall unpleasant to listen to. I cannot be the only one that thinks this. There’s no way lol

even my boys were telling me they listen to old rap hits like 50 and Drake nowadays versus anything new