also op is right but to give credit to yeat he bares his soul a bit on that latest project

He had songs where he “bared his soul” on like every project but yall relegated him to a meme rapper and never actually listened

i mean not me i just never really listened to him before dis one i f***ed w it tho

Sometimes you’ll hear people say “we were never supposed to know how much bad s*** was going on in the world”; and in that same vein, we never anticipated being able to view the thoughts, emotions & opinions of nearly every living person. And most of those living people want to make something or be creatives. All the “NPC” meme s*** is cope in the face of how many f***ing people there are with our exact same capacity for feeling and intellect. There’s a knee-jerk human nature reaction to deny that inner life in others; “they can’t really believe that”, “nobody actually feels this way”, I’m not saying its good or bad but its true, and we all do it here constantly

this is a great post

The problem with hip hop is that none of these new artists have a passion for it. They view it as a hussle to get rich. They don't hone their craft and honestly aren't very skilled.

yall still play that lame s***?

you get it

"And the underground rappers who aren’t coke rappers are preaching again with no actual personality behind it." Some crazy ass generalisations in this post

Yeat’s invulnerability is the vulnerability. Dude has a lot of one liners that peek at inner conflict with the ego and temptation

Danny Brown dropped almost the exact same album a decade ago. Crazy that an album like that is considered aoty.

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it’s actually always been this because gangsta rap fell off due to the fact nobody believed these rappers truly needed to act like that anymore to sell records, bringing about backpack - blog rappers

NBA Youngboy out now

Sanding down the wide range of perspectives in modern hip hop and arriving at this conclusion is pretty reductive tbh

Underground artists who constantly get brought up in these convos like Navy Blue and MIKE are a lot more vulnerable than you give them credit for; I'd call them that before I ever call them 'preachy'

2016 was almost a decade ago, I don't see how this is relevant to OPs post

who actually complained about this? lmao

KTT

When? I’m geninuely asking cause I’ve never seen this compliant on this site at all. Give examples

When rod wave and them first really popped off. People would be like this music is too emotional and depressing that’s why the girls run hip hop cause they make fun music

Don't know how true this is tbh. Hella younger rappers are talking about their issues with d*** addiction etc

I'd say rap right now is WAY more vulnerable than it maybe ever was Ludacris, TI, 50 Cent were more of what OP is talking about. That's what made The Love Below such a big deal - rappers weren't making music about masculinity and s***like that. That's what made Kanye stand out, he wasn't putting up a hard front

Xxxtentacion smashed every streaming record off the strength of being emotionally vulnerable and transparent

Rod Wave is also putting up Hakeem type numbers because of pain rap and emotional crooning

Yeah I dont know about this, yeah they were rappers that had their vulnerable moments back in the 90s early 2000's but I wouldn't say it was a common thing, hence why rappers like outkast, common, Tribe, ye and then drake were considered emotional outliers.

I don't think rappers are less emotional than the pre-2010 era, they're probably more emotional. Even the pain street rappers now are more vulnerable than Gangsta rappers I'm the 2000s

I think your issue is that all they're vulnerable moments sounds like cliches to you cause you heard it all before many times