if we were why is it so bad rn

An athlete's prime is like late 20s to mid 30s

Old for rap sure but really 30, like you said is the age you can't run from being an adult anymore. I guess if we take the life expectancy of black people in effect, it might just be. But it's like the latter part of young before middle age if anything

This thread made me think about the movie The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years, which was about the rager rock of the 80s & metal in general. Penelope Spheeris would have no place making that movie today, but, it's scary thinking about how raps young generation is in such a state of precarity. Someone should do it

I’m turning 28

Guess I’m old

A focused athlete yes.

Nah just say you discovered your birth certificate and your actually years younger

Yes, and an artist can make good music for decades.

Honestly, I'm good hearing all these 18 year olds raised by the internet copy each other or these old guys directly

Yeats only 23

30s is prime years

Mentioned him and Ice Spice in OP as all we have to look forward to

Looking at the list in OP in most cases their best work is behind them…

Greatest rapper alive turned 40 last year

Don't think that's true.

And then there's Luh Tyler ready to take the torch

Artists make comebacks all the time.

In Hollywood your 30s still your 20s

French about to leave his 30s

Don’t even get me started on Jorja Smith’s uncle

Is rap just going to die soon? goddamn NO shut up

dusthead below me

Let it die
Destroy and rebuild

I can start putting him in top 5 oat convos without any funny looks

That s*** needs gatekeeping for reals