adolescence and young adulthood... the years where you have the most energy, time and youthful naivete to really throw yourself into following music, and I'm glad I got to get into hip-hop in a decade with so many different great styles and artists

especially being in high school during the first half of the decade... sorry to teenyboppers whose balls dropped around the time 17 did... but getting to follow that era of drake, kendrick (and the rest of TDE), cole, rocky, mid-period kanye (and GOOD), future, THUGGER, meek (and maybach ofc) tyler, earl, mixtape chance... (this is not a comprehensive list btw) while being that age where you're discovering the world as if your generation are the first ones to discover sex, d**** and hip-hop was so fun

then it was nice not being too much of an oldhead to enjoy the soundcloud rap era and the many talented artists who came up in the second half of the decade, but also not being so young that more traditional hip-hop (you know, with actual bars and s***) was impenetrable to me

i know this is a perfect age to be a hip-hop fan because, of course, every man thinks that the hip-hop (and music in general) of his adolescence represents the peak of possible artistry, and everything after his prefrontal cortex settles in is total crap

if i was born in 1977 instead of 1997, I'd think everything after The Blueprint, or maybe "Hey Ya!" at the latest, represented a steep decline in the quality of hip-hop and maybe heralded the end of western civilization

but I wasn't, i was born in 1997, and it was amazing having all this music and all these sounds and bars and beats and artists and lyrics and scenes at my fingertips thanks to the bounty of the internet (as well as access to the previous three decades of hip-hop), before streaming services (including soundcloud) went too far up their own asses and basically algo-rhythm'd the entirety of popular hip-hop into rap caviar blandness (sorry born in 2007 bros)

Yea

its everyday bro with the Disney channel flow

Yeah imagine now growing up w all these trash artists lel

Born in 98 and I agree we got it the best

Stopped reading at "mid period Kanye"

lol what else would you call it??

🫡 sir yes sir

sorry to teenyboppers whose balls dropped around the time 17

the luckiest mfs are the ones who were in highschool during lil wayne prime

Op is kinda creeping me out bc he said 97 and I’m born in 98 and he said 07 kids and my little brother born in 07 and my mom was born in 77 and he said that year too

Then you’d be in college for a crazy Kanye run that would be amazing

Cringe

OP speakin facts. People who just started listening to rap 5 years ago missed so much.

bruh, me and my coworker were JUST talkin about this.

We were jammin to them mid 2010's joints and they fr just did hit differently, bc of nostalgia ofc but I fr could not see myself enjoying today's music even if I was 15-17 again, I already was a contrarian back in the day thinkin everything new was trash besides Kendrick, ASAP and Thugger, so I proably would feel the exact same about new music today.

I was born in the 90's too and I agree.

I hail the 2005-2015 as my golden age of hip-hop

I would be stuck in the 1990-2000 golden age of hip-hop mindset if I was born any earlier

to me 2005-2015 was Prime rap music golden age

2010 - 2016 is peak of this century in HH and that’s not nostalgia.

@op i’m same age and i’ve thought long and hard about this quandary and you’re 100% right. There’s like 50 albums from that time span that surpass pretty much any album from 2017 - present.

Mid Menstrual Yeezy

I was born in the right generation

There’s kids turning 18 next year that were born in 2005

Adults born after prime G-Unit who probably wouldn’t start listening to music until they were at least 8? So like 2013 would be their entrance into music assuming they get into music that early

Wild and surely some of them are on ktt

Yea but I don’t hold any era above another. You gotta stay on top of what’s fly or you’ll get washed

That’s why Gen Z so weird. I watched the era OP is talking about but I’m on the upper end of the same Gen who heard juice wrld at 12 years old

We have people here who were born in 1995 bumping Bob Dylan so I don’t exactly feel like age has much to do with anything unless it’s about experiencing the moment.

Yup