Told it was his era... by who?

Why are you ignoring that the decline started in 2023?

Hip hop feeling the effects of the second apron

Drake has what? 5 albums and countless features since 2023?

Looks like the genre is imploding from all the slop him and artists like him have been s***ting out for years now

If you ask me, I think it’s a good thing, this is a very interesting transition era in the arts in general and I feel grateful that I get to observe it

this is true art, someone who doesn't pander. unlike miss drizzy who dubbed his voice in a non-artistic way

i don't think it has anything to do with that because for decades even in the 20th century people were being inspired and cribbing sounds from previous decades like the sampling people were doing in the 90s of music from the 60s and 70s

it's up to the new generation to break the doors down of the incumbents. kendrick wasn't embraced by the west coast because he was the only new guy there were a bunch of guys making music but kendrick was clearly special, same with cudi, cole, drake, even big sean who gets clowned now. everybody who was good enough to kind of kick out the old guard has passed away

purely entertainment and is the stated goal of the company they worked with in making

Vanessa and Kendrick are friends via Kobe. Nipsey’s partner thought it was powerful art

makes sense, mainsream hip-hop been so boring for a minute, no real new rising stars

plus music in general is becoming hyper-compartmentalized as algorithms continue to push people into specific micro-niches, which isn't necessarily a bad thing

We need Kendrick to save hip-hop for the 3rd time again

King will be here next year 👑

mainstream hip hop is completely out of touch with what people want from albums ngl

its like everyone is stuck in the 2016-2020 streaming era dropping 20+ track albums tryna stat pad

All the drake fans doing the “i thought kendrick would save hip hip” thing in a thread that actually makes they mans 3peat this year look bad….are funny man lol

half jokingly I wonder if a lot of ppl are like me where they love a lot of hip hop still but simply can’t play it in their car because they can’t afford to fix one blown out speaker that rattles every time it encounters poorly mixed 808s

that surf gang x earl Chicago song blew out my front driver side speaker lol

It’s giving under 26 years old

I don't think it's that era specifically. Nostalgia is in right now across all forms of entertainment as physical media keeps dying. For most of Gen Z that's the earliest era they can remember so that's what they emulate.

It also has a two part effect because of the higher quality songwriting then compared to their current era, and for as much as they love to do the whole vibes > lyrics thing everybody loves quality songwriting that stands the test of time

are you f***ing stupid?

this thread got 20p what were yall even discussing lol

this site would be so much better if most of yall would just admit you don’t like a certain artist instead of these bad faith sub posts tbh

I blame the economy too
we’re all so poor rn bro not everyone’s as captivated by the dream of flexing and are maybe even subconsciously tired of being called broke in their favorite songs by their favorite rappers

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The world legitimately getting worse and niggas still rapping about cars lol

Great song one of Kendrick’s best

It’s necessarily a bad thing if you like event level albums.

Yall said yall wanted to watch the party die, got your wish

yeah there's a tradeoff fs

I also don't love the idea of algorithms crafting everyones taste

just glad more people than ever are listening to music outside the mainstream

Imagine if Drake didn’t drop this year. In the “dot era”… holy s*** the genre would be below like jazz music on the charts