Jcole, Drake , and Kendrick are the problem. They doing a terrible at their gatekeepin duties.

You suppose to son these young new rappers and make them perfect their craft whether that’s thru mentoring, dissing till it makes them step up, or even blocking them on the charts.

The rap game veterans just ain’t about s***. No offense to their music but they lack leadership qualities like the past generations.

Way to easy for thes new tiktok kids to get number ones. The old veterans even from other genres made drake wait forever to get a number 1. Now you get one as soon as you 3 songs in. Sad s***

wym no? hes a star with hits?

Gonna have to get hip to Deante and KOTA. I used to bump Saba on the daily, if they sound anything like him I’m sure I’ll love it

Boogies super underrated too

Tyler dude🙂

Kendrick shouldn’t be in this. He is doing a great job of mentoring Baby Keem. Cole and Drake tho

Nobody in the mainstream

carti and thug only mainstream rappers i put on a pedestal.

every other major artist a thug clone, good but not captivating, or doesn’t speak to me.

but the “underground” is 100% alive and great. navy blue released my favorite project last year. mike got classics and ion even think he 20. f*** with piink sifu heavy.

earl tbh in my top 10 based off his longetivity and especially his recent output.

the music and artists f*** with are doing great. feel like ppl only hold this opinion if they aren’t interested in finding great artists.

yk he a white atlanta stan

what is bro talkin about or am i dumb

I get exactly what OP is saying but the truth is it's the uniqueness of the art that's not prevailing

Like the name you mentioned, Wayne, his format and foundation has become the core curriculum that most artists follow today and it's become beyond dull.

Gucci > Waka > Chief > Today's Sound
Jay > Ye > Wayne > Drake > Thug & Future > Today's Sound
Pac > Boosie > Lil Phat > Today's Sound

of course with more children to detail the sound but the foundation of these artists sound still prevail without question

And It's become so cookie cutter and over done that the IT factor is non existent. Of course we all enjoy the progression of the artist in the NOW of these styles but it's becoming so recycled that it's hard to bear at times. Especially without the inspirations being used correctly to create originality in the ART progressing the style & music to new heights and levels thus giving you a IT factor.

Ye has an IT factor but everyone knows his flow was always sounding like Mase but he still managed to become more.

The trend is to be popping regardless of any type of artistic integrity or anything and that's the greatest detriment to this state of rap now. But like a balloon, the lost of air after the pop has to be taken else where.

Slayworld lineup going hard

"got hits but what else"

the f*** else do you need

exactly

The way KTT went from being some tapped-in advanced community where you could shoot the s*** about music, to some depressing place where no one can let go of the past and every other thread is some other wording of “music was better when i wasn’t an adult” is so depressing man

Is there a way I can stop my browser from allowing me to enter this site? It's just a waste of time longing for the 2015 days. The world has moved on.

i actually used to come here and learn about new music regularly

now 1/2 threads are just covert life sxn threads

But I thought Cole was tryna diss the state of the rap game with KOD?

he’s missing something that makes him stand out like a true GOAT.

he is killing s*** no doubt
and is lyrically so talented

but he sounds the same, on everything.

he doesnt have like a cackle or silly laugh or persona that made wayne feel refreshing on a beat.

it just sounds like another f***ing lil baby verse, with nothing really there to make it standout among the other verses he’s put out.

*daBaby has this same issue btw, but to me daBaby stands out a lil more cuz of the voice and pronounced ad-libs and s***

As much as mainstream rap is trash rn, I don't think gatekeeping is the answer, it's only gonna stifle the genre more if anything. Also we're in a "fast food" era, everything comes and goes in a week and people have short attention spans, so the average listener is not gonna listen to a 5 minute song full of bars unless it's from a huge artist like Drake.

I just said this in another thread but 2019 not being good for music was the final straw for this place. Ktt2 was created and immediately the go-to thread was to whine about the state of modern music. Then for god knows what reason said boomers strong armed the admins into closing registration so their echo chamber wouldn’t be affected. Heavily influenced the culture of the site in a bad way. 2020 came and music started getting better but people on here pretended it didn’t

Lmao why would any of them be gatekeepers

A lot of ppl