Lol

WE ALL LIKED RICHAXXHAITIAN BRO!

nah its actually nuts how much good s*** was being made. we are in a wasteland nowadays comparatively

I thought everyone shat on that Nudy album

The one who breaks this will be…the one lol

• website’s name is artsiest guy in mainstream rap of last 25 years-to the

You including Nudy and Nine Vicious is what OP is talking about and i fw Nudy

There’s a certain type of rap that people refuse to acknowledge just is dying. No new Lupe Kanye Wayne all around types that can go on any beat its either Alc Slums adjacent or trap / Rap Life (trap beats but less actual hood scenario type raps lmao) adjacent

Go listen to 454 and stfu

Again

“Shut up and go listen to dude who not really lyrical and do goofy s*** with his voice over cool beats” is exactly what @op is talking about

Lmaoo y’all proving how far gone we are considering everyone on here is 23-25+

hiphop era been over for a minute
now the most relevant genre is electronic and pop

This type of thinking is what led hip hop to its dark place. “I usually dont like rap but…” ass nigga. Fans like you gotta get all the way the f*** out the genre so it can go back to just being raw f*** all the glitzy audio tricks to compete with come and go music trends. The classics in the 90’s came when rap was barely just becoming a “pop” thing

Dumbass niggas doing afrobeats and bell bottoms and guitars because they scared to just rap or gotta compete with every new dumbass trend

You obviously don’t listen to 454

You think he can’t rap?

Plus he produces everything

preach

mf I grew up with hip-hop, I went through the first 'death of hip-hop' when soulja boy started to be relevant and swag rap appeared, and I felt just like you feel now

nowadays climate is very different to what it was back then, nowadays people just wanna have a good time, not listen to some dusthead talk about his hood problems while ignoring their personal problems

most people are already too conscious about social issues on a global perspective, I personally stopped listening to most hip-hop because it started to feel like a burden, I got my own issues to deal with

also music executives focus on making money, not on making people conscious

Shiny suits and No Limit killed hip hop

THC smoking

Word its smoking

Them c notes make me feel close to the ocean

He filling up space with generic lines anyone can say nigga we being stiff on the filler raps in 2025 im sorry 💔

Its cool to smoke to but thats not Lupe Kanye Wayne Drake Kendrick Cole level or even close to trying to be and thats why he could have the number one spot tomorrow and niggas still would ask why rap suck the same way Carti Travis etc essentially have it now and niggas asking why rap suck lol

Was Kanye Wayne Hov Kendrick Drake a dusthead talking about their hood problems while ignoring their personal problems? Who does that archetype even fit and when has he been number one in rap to be relevant in this convo lol

You making excuses for niggas being f***in lazy lmao. Nobody said you had to be a super conscious rapper just try to actually rap well and be somewhat unique. Lmaoo thats literally it man

It would have if Jay Z kept making Sunshine and Ha Remixes with new names for 7 years after those respective summers. Or Nas and the Ginuwine song lmao. Niggas ain’t exiting their fun bullshit song phases to make a Made You Look or Blueprint tier album

Wow just a few minutes ago in another thread I said that Ghais Guevara could be the one to fill that young Lupe/Ye role. His latest projects really shows that variety you are talking about + its mostly self prduced

I peeped one of Ghais tapes a year or so ago

He has a lot of the things necessary but s*** so fragmented now he gonna have to have a co sign and certain push behind him before he realistically has a chance at that. Which is bullshit.

Like how LaRussell (he’s ok no hate) is pretty much the top guy in that lane because he dominates with content and has a team putting all his s*** together

But he definitely has rapping skill to carry that lineage in a modern way and his beats are crazy

Jazz, funk, soul & rock but cooler

Yeah but the thing that inspired me to say this was that they played a part of his song before the super bowl half time show some sort of Apple deal idk. Point is that hes on a (indie) label now and is intersted in more of a mainstream push. I suggest you check out the newer stuff hes putting out

We’re not gonna act like those artists don’t have filler lines and everything they did was amazing? All these artists you mentioned had clear peaks and valleys. I love Lupe Fiasco……but I ONLY love that mixtape s***, F&L and The Cool. Kanye hasn’t made anything I want to listen to since TLOP. I personally think Cole is pretty mid and only really liked him before his debut album. Wayne grinded for years before he really became a star and now he’s been a has been for like a decade. I get they created an era that you are nostalgic for but this music being released today is cool af and doesn’t take itself too serious while still being somewhat lyrical