Those are my exact parallels, and also on top Pac and X seemed to know how to resonate with their generation on a deep personal level. They knew how to speak to their generation.

X honestly could have been Pac level if he was allowed to fully flesh out his life IMO

Please don't flame me.

Every thread nowadays lmao, niggas got strong opinions

The problem is all the lyrical dudes these days are sheltered nerds with nothing to actually rap about

…and the street niggas arent?

Consider it whatever you want it’s not charting well

Ooooh no

I'm talking about dudes like Raekwon, Nas, and DJ Quik

These street dudes these days move like crash outs

I meant the people in OP. I'm not reading 8 pages about a Chuck Inglish tweet

You know BigX?

Back then lyrical rappers were dropping made game and knowledge in their rhymes. These days there is 0.
There’s no knowledge in today’s lyrical rappers?

I just went to a noname show last year dawg

My b I forgot that everyone on ktt besides me has a doctorate in music marketing

Never heard of it tbh

It’s a lot of music that gets million of views, that’s not what mainstream is and you know that.

Probably gonna be a nigga with 20 mil+ lol

Earthgang are nowhere near mainstream bro

Noname is a good rapper and she's cool, but she reminds me of every girl in my Sociology 101 class. She just doesn't have the image or character to inspire people and fan the flames in their hearts like someone like Pac could

Kinda nullifies your point then lmao

It's one thing to have a few songs get millions of plays, to have consistently high streaming on spotify means ur established in the genre on a level very few are. If ur a hip hop fan uve heard all the names I listed

There’s plenty of low-stakes aspirational rap available, I don’t get Chuck’s point. It anything, people would rag on The College Dropout today because it’s simultaneously so pro and anti materialist at the same time. It’d be like, soft-cancelled for “misogynoir”

Yeah that’s a good point too about the way they connected with their respective generations.

I just don’t think his music was up to par with what Pac had dropped even early on in his career even though he had a lot of talent for sure

You said lyrical rappers are sheltered nerds with nothing to say.

And im asking the street rappers aint?

Most slay world niggas looked like nerds prior to the magical power of face tats

I'm a "hipster" (said by some ktt poster I forgot who) so it's not im my wheelhouse to know every mainstream artist. And yes there might be exceptions due to stream farming

Slayworld aren’t street rappers

Yeah X was nowhere near the level Pac was musically, his music seemed to be in it's infant stages as far as his creativity goes. Was really interested to see where he would have taken his sound, s*** sucks balls lol

They don't even got face tats lmao

Established in a genre isn’t mainstream. Could name you 12 established modern Jazz artists you’ve never seen chart

I don’t really get what you mean