Most rappers just love staying complacent
Most rappers don't expand their music tastes and they don't have a lot of time to listen to different genres of music or discover different artists
Let's take Lil Wayne for example, this man doesn't listen to anybody but himself and it shows
Let's take a new artist like Roddy Ricch for example, his favorite rappers are Young Thug and Future and that's why his music sounds so much like those 2 guys
Most artists are inspired by what they hear the most because that's the s*** that they think is acceptable so they try not to go beyond that
Another example would be someone like Kendrick, this man listens to every genre of music from Jazz to Funk to Rock to Poetry and it shows in his music because the music he makes is inspired by a lot of different things
Tyler is influenced by Pharrell the most but he also listens to a lot of different types of genres and it shows in his music, Tyler understands music on a different level
Drake was making his best music when he was inspired by artists like Kanye and The Weeknd but now he's just inspired by boring soundcloud rappers
I can give 100 other examples but you get the point

Basically most rappers are inspired by what's popping the most which are artists like Future and Thug and those who are inspired by actual good artists don't get the same push because there's not many spots for those type of artists

Roddy sounded pretty unique on his first tapes idk why he biting Future so much nowadays

Facts

There's too much paying homage to the idols and things from the past people need to look forward like Kanye did in the 00s

I haven't heard his music before but I've seen an interview of him saying that Thug and Future are in his top 5
He also said Kendrick but that doesn't reflect in his music so idk

Thanks

well also no one really did s*** for the pat year

who have we gotten to release in the past year?

Dreamville
Nudy
Gibbs

no its cuz Carti didnt drop 🤕

YB

Imagine trying to say Roddy Ricch is boring. How out of touch are you?

Someone else here made a pretty good point before that a lot of rappers sound like clones at the beginning of their careers and it’s kinda true. For example Young Thug was just a Wayne clone when he first started

We need some extraordinary talent to start making waves on a mainstream scale again man

The newcomers of the last few years have been forgettable AF compared to the GOATs

Lil Nas X? Seriously?

Good take OP. I’ve been noticing the same. The new guys will get stale and they will end up branching out eventually, or just end up getting replaced by a clone

Money.

He isn't boring I f*** with his music just giving an example of someone who is inspired by the s*** that's poppin the most who also made a career out of it

Nigga said take lil Wayne for example. He may of said that 2 days ago but he made
Rebirth
Was obsessed with NY rap in his early 20s
Wanted to rap like Hov
Could do any rap style on his mixtapes. West coast slang. East coast slang etc.

He expanded his ear throughout his whole career

Well what sucks is social media presence is what makes money the quickest at this point

Not making good projects.

But other than that you aren’t wrong OP

nobody said he's boring u bum, he's saying that roddy just makes music that sounds like everyone else's & that he should start being more creative instead.

May sound cringe but do you think Xxx was hitting that margin?

Nothing but facts in op

I need Roddy to make a whole
tape w scott storch and mustard

I'm talking about now
Obviously he was inspired by artists like Andre he said it in the new interview
But his new music doesn't have much inspiration he just sounds like a parody of himself at this point

Why can't -mainstream artist of the moment- be challenging and different?

Because then he wouldn't be the mainstream artist of the moment.