the mid 2010s is when i became more aware of music. Sure i was a child but i was in KTT and going on datpiff / youtube / where ever to get the new s***

oh good times.

but let the kids have fun.

yall be bitter old men on here

U like the music u heard in the most formative years of ur life🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

That 1992-1997 age group hit different cause we went from the blog era, to tumblr era, to soundcloud era and watched them all unfold in real time. I do think the quality has dipped after 2018 but I’m thankful to have experienced such a period of creativity from 2008-2018

Well that kinda what I’m saying, I love Dylan myself but I wouldn’t deny that ppl who were young in the 60s and heard all his classics when they were the hot new s*** have a particular relationship with his music that I’ll never have

imagine being born in the 2000s

Yeah, getting to listen to the 90s while rap was trash in the late aughts was a great catch up

i am so happy i was in middle school during the G unit era, high school during the Wayne run (C3 dropping the summer before my senior year), and the kanye/kendrick/drake domination during my college years and early life years.

what a f***ing era to grow up in

basically if you were big into music in an era where you had to sit with albums for a long time youre lucky

so happy i didnt grow up in the streaming era

Of course it’s tautological to be like “wow my formative years coincided with the music that I think is the best” but it was more than the music in a vacuum… it was the way that the music was able to be shared online and the diversity of accessible sounds that came as a result of that
The very last years of pre-streaming services then the first few years before streaming itself killed that diversity of sounds

The SoundCloud era was the beginning of the end

I’m just gonna say this,its hard to praise and champion this era just off the fact that when I grew up (mid-late 2000s)there were still regional sounds going on in Hip Hop and Pop music was still willing to actually experiment. Someone from NY could literally come down South and experience a whole other region of music and vice versa.

For everyone to sound the same nowadays just really represents a decline in culture,let alone Hip Hop.

Everyday I’m thankful I was alive to see Aubrey’s career.

Having witnessed east coast rap at its peak from the 90s to mid 2000s to its massive fall off, it was something special seeing its renaissance in the 2010s. Definitely not as big of course, but that time was something special forreal.

definitely. having a big bro that always listened to that period of hip hop helped out a lot

That plus Apple Music launching with Drake in 2015. It was the perfect combination to add to what Spotify started and get us here now

Streaming commercialized music to hell. The only way to really get your music out there being a digital streaming service owned by one of the largest corporations in the world was one of the worst ideas in music history when you speak on artistic integrity.

97 lmao pubescent clown. 94 gang

I was born in 93 so I got to experience some of the 90s and the early 2000s as well. Kendrick and OF and them blew up when I was 17-18

And how are the only two men (Prince and MJ) that could’ve possibly fought against streaming gonna die before it ever takes off smh

It’s crazy how quickly it happened too. I remember when Spotify first became a thing my freshmen/sophomore year in 2011/2012, only girls were really using it and they would have hella deep playlists for studying lmfao. Most guys were still torrenting/mixtapes and using their phones local files or iCloud

I remember getting Apple Music in 2015 and then streaming just becoming the norm for everyone. That really might be why things don’t feel so special cause it’s hard to discover something nowadays and get everyone to pay attention at the same time for an extended time