I’m not listening to your cousin brother

This fire

Oh?

because she's one of the best artists right now

Every single time

Mfs always become some underground rap experts when this topic comes up

The mainstream is the lifeblood of any genre. Underground/indie scene is always full of talent, in EVERY genre. What separates the genres and what keeps a genre healthy is the mainstream. Rap mainstream was amazing up until like mid to late 00's when people started questioning if it was really in trouble. But s*** that looks like a golden era compared to what we have now. Drake, Cole and Kendrick were coming up. Kanye and Wayne were in their primes etc..

Now the mainstream is....still Drake, Cole and Kendrick. It's never happened before, and it's not because those guys are so good lol there was a time in the early 10's when it felt like it was going somewhere. But the late 10's and this entire decade so far has been a disaster for the health of the genre as a whole.

Crazy to say hip hop in a dark place when these dropped

had no idea doechii got this many fans

Lol OP a generic ass nigga can't find good music and it's out there maybe your mainstream pool will get better by summer til then nigga WE up

WHAZ UNDERGROUND ARE U ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT??? NOBODY GIVES AF ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND. FOR DECADES THE MAINSTREAM WAS SO EXCITING AND NOW WE HAVE TO CARE ABOUT SONGS WITH 3 MILLION CLICKS

Labels gave mainstream rock/pop artists creative freedom for a whole 15 years between the late 60s-early 80s, even as the economy faltered and music became more and expensive to produce. By that comparison, I think it's fair for hip-hop fans to feel shortchanged

MBDTF the SPLHCB of rap in more ways than one

insists upon herself

I spontaneously googled “2015 rap albums”. Bro look at that s***, it’s not just that we’re getting old

Crunk Era.
Snap Era.
Autotune Era.
Blog Era.
Drill era.
Mumble rap era.
SoundCloud era.

We’ve seen you every few years, OP. Hip Hop will be fine. Will you?

Hip hop consumers need to learn how to look in other places for their fix. There are artist and scenes that get no recognition because of the social programming
We could be in the experimental hip hop era right now

that era had the best mix of mainstream blockbuster albums that were interesting everyone can enjoy there’s still great new music coming out but everything feels so niche and the big releases are kinda by legacy acts

it’s kind of telling that in 2010 the biggest artists were a few years in and someone that was 15 years in was an old head now the biggest artists are 15+ years in

Please, for the love of God, dig through the digital crates and realize that the days of radio and the press pushing good music to you is over.

Music is more segmented more than ever before. NLU was a rare break from that as was some other things.

There's plenty of good music dropping. Ya'll just want iconic moments to be attached to it.

Literally a ton of incredible music out there. You niggas just need to actually go look for a f***ing change 😂 y’all wanna be spoon fed so f***ing bad it’s crazy. You’d rather eat s*** than get your own f***ing food

Its a valid complaint. The s*** they used to spoon feed us was GOOD.

True.

50 Cent was damn near ready to retire and become a full time business mogul and entertainer before turning 35 years old in 2010. Music became his side hustle post Curtis.

Nowadays, you'd be clowned for falling back on the rap game that young and niggas pushing 40 who debuted more than a decade ago are still treated like the young ringleaders in rap. Even Future is only a year younger than Wayne.

Lil Baby's supposed to be a ringleader but the Drake/Kendrick beef is STILL overshadowing his entire release and now niggas ain't even talking about Dominique(the album) anymore except for hardcore stans.

Even Carti's been losing some of his hype since his fans went berserk on him. I'm sure I Am Music will live up to the hype but it's insane how the new guard still can't outshine the old guard to this very day.