Papi’s Angels gonna get on you for that comment about Drake, lol
But honestly OP I think you should just give it time. Rap is still one of the most malleable genres OAT and it’s also still the sound of the youth, so some new rappers with new energy and styles are sure to come sooner or later

It explains your response, that’s all I needed to know

Don’t take it so personal. Nothing wrong with being a 30+ year old man living your day to day life. You’re in your prime.

If you read all of OP you’d understand the problem I’m raising is being in your 30s as a rapper and your subject matter is solely about your amiri jeans, not loving any girl, how much you threw at the club and what ops you’re smoking

All the best rappers right now are in their 30's. Who wants to listen to a 16 year old rap about being rich anyway?

i bet people who grew up on 80s music said the same thing about the 90s but if you dig deeper you'll find something you'll enjoy. we are simply looking at the 90s with rose-tinted glasses, of course there was a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly

Project Baby 2 at 20 the new Illmatic at 20

ageism is a plague in general tbh

Tbh this quote unlocked something in my brain; that being that I think the main source of this problem, if it is indeed a problem, is lack of subject matter to draw on.
Rap is a much more lyric and storytelling driven genre than most other genres, and the youth are having a hard time entering the field because they’re stupid teenagers with nothing interesting to say yet.
Don’t take that the wrong way; teenage years can be vibrant and full of emotion and interesting experiences.
But unless you’re really talented from a young age, you won’t know how to channel that into lyrics yet, and you’ll just end up following the trends laid before you, with stuff like braggadocio and smoking ops and s***.
Not only that, but the problem compounds, as older rappers become more successful, and, now that they finally have the ability to say interesting things, run out of interesting experiences to inspire them. You can only rap about how the help scratched your Porsche like once or twice before it gets old.
It’s eroding the subject matter of our talent from two directions, and that’s resulting in a lack of variety that is making things seem stale.
Idk what the solution is, but I think that might be the source of the problem.

"Future the active misogynistic king"

french montana was never a scholar. that is not an indictment on his age. your expectations aren't reasonable.

As long as he has been around, and everything that's happened to him.. I honestly cannot believe this lol. Bruh really started out soo young.

Eazy-E would’ve celebrated his 60th birthday next year

Most golden era rappers from the late 80’s are in their mid-50’s rn.

I agree. This is why I think rap started to decline in quality. You had teenagers with limited experience and skill taking over the genre but I think things are starting to change

Honestly this died in the 2010’s. Really the 2000’s with the 90’s rappers generation but now niggas like Gibbs and Westside Gunn are BLOWING in their early/mid 30’s lol

No. Being 30+ in the club with the priorities I listed is still as sad as it’s always been.

Go settle down with a woman you love, be an active father, be a positive example for your community, find god.

Leave the other s*** for the young men whose brains aren’t fully developed yet

Yea we in the blink-182 stage of rap

Carti is 26 we good for the next 5 years

This sums up one of raps biggest flaws in general. We attack a niggas authenticity and manhood if their lyrics aren’t 70-85% autobiographical and nonfiction and thus unless you’re in a rare rare class of visionairies/wordsmiths it always feels like someone is only a few more projects from exhausting their sound/style.

This is fascinating because guys like MF Doom don’t have to follow the rules of what you’re bringing up but if Drake or Logic said some of the s*** MF Doom has theyd be looked at like a try hard geek lol

Ross is in a weird purgatory right now to where it’s like people are probably tired of that same type of subject matter but what else would rap fans accept him talking about?

It’s fascinating the “rules” of rap and how they’re constantly being rewritten

Lol I’m strictly talking about the idea that a 30 year old rapper looks juvenile talking about raps typical topics. That’s a 90’s mentality. It’s surreal someone like Meek is mid 30’s now when you compare him to how Hov was acting in like 04-06 lol. The 90’s and 2000’s rappers aging into their 40’s and still behaving pretty much the same killed off what you’re talking about for our generation IMO

We’re actually past the mcr/paramore/patd phase

op like 19

No.

It’s as sad as it’s always been.

damn...the goat is turning 46

Niggas like slick Rick ice T and Kool moe dee would have loved to be in an era where you could have talked about debauchery in your mid 30’s like Griselda Ross and gibbs with no one calling you old lol.

The kids who would call them old don’t listen to them to even know that type music exists and the people who are also in their 30’s and 40’s don’t magically wanna start listening to jazz and s*** overnight just cuz they had a few birthdays

too many of the next generation got killed fam

kinda like nickelback and limp bizkit era, the underground is forever tho