Because you dont have a rebuttal to bro point lol.

Words matter, I know your whole thing is a genre that is literally based on words, that words no longer matter, but they do bro. Lol.

You think these niggas saying this bullshit actually listened to 90s rappers and engaged with the music/culture of the time.

It’s so obvious these guys only know and respect 09-16 and then a few token 90/ rappers

I did have a rebuttal. My rebuttal was that the only difference is that Drake is a better technical rapper. At the end of the day the content is the same

better technical rapper. At the end of the day the content is the same

Because…words matter lol.

The content is absolutely not the same because with less words you dont have enough a chance to showcase the different vulnerabilities of yourself so eventually you become a broken record

Yeah that’s not true. More words != better or more complex

Somewhere along the way ppl forgot in order to be a rapper, you gotta RAP.

Like I said, this is a genre based on words. The dumbing down of that doesnt make that less true lol

Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers out now

Think he’s referring to the new guys in the mainstream

It’s not just based on words anymore. The line between being a rapper and singer is thinner than it’s ever been.

You can’t judge a nigga making 2024 music with the same rubric you judge a 97 rapper because the meta is different they aren’t trying to accomplish the same s***

”The line between being a rapper and singer is thinner than it’s ever been.”

….no?

How is it not? Pretty much all the top rappers now use melodies and harmonize in their s***. More so then they ever have

The rap verse/rnb hook archetype for a song is pretty much dead because the rappers are all singing themselves now

It’s not just based on words anymore.

And as soon as niggas said that rap lost its stranglehold lol

You can’t judge a nigga making 2024 music with the same rubric you judge a 97 rapper because the meta is different they aren’t trying to accomplish the same s***

You right. Because ‘97 the goal of rap was to rap. 2024 the goal of rap is to make money.

LMFAO

We’ve always had some rappers singing hooks even back in the 90s. Hell Pac and Outkast did it mad times wtf u talking about

glad you came to your senses @gold_experience

Don't necessarily disagree, however I feel like a good amount of gangsta rappers back in the 90s (shit even the 80s honestly) would rap about that but also make it clear that it's not really a life you want to live. At least that's what I'd get from rappers/groups like Kool G Rap, Mobb Deep, Wu Tang, AZ, Lox, and even Biggie at times.

Feel like the shift started in the late 90s and 2000s when niggas just stopped giving af lol

yep sucked to see people here cheering on Earl over a garbage evilgiane beat like he wasn't prostituting himself out to the worst trends in hip hop rn

“2024 the goal of rap is to make money.”

This is another comment that just sounds cute but when you really look at it it’s nonsense.

Jay Z had a whole song comparing rap to selling d****, admitted to dumbing down his music with the goal of making the most money.

a lot of rappers always viewed it as a business/hustle just as much if not more than “doing it for the art”

The only s*** that’s changed is the meta for the type of music that they make.

Ion even know who any of these popular new niggas are in the mainstream tbh I only keep up with the ones I care about and unfortunately they hardly known lol

Earl already peaked tbh

dude refuses to put together a fully fleshed out project anymore

1995

It wasn’t as prevalent as it is now. Now pretty much every rapper is melodic rapping on the verse and then singing the hook