Not true

Kanye & drake were the biggest artists for a long time and they were challenging and different

Ye fell off and Drake became generic

problem is that we lack album artists, those dudes just trying to get a hit song now

This. A lot of our artists today are cool but you're not gonna tell me with a straight face that they're really that talented. Nobody's making albums like late registration or anything special beyond throwing a bunch of songs on a project to see which one blows up.

We really need a big talent to shake up the scene

Wish you niggas would stfu

Nobody forcing y’all to listen to any of these rappers

no

Personally I wasn't a big fan, but I can't deny that he was on the come up. His image was trendy and marketable af, kids were moved by his songs and developed an emotional attachment to him, and he had cosigns from people like Kendrick and Cole which gave him that "real rapper" edge.

I don't think he would've got much better tbh. If you ask me, he would've kept pumping out projects of short snippet/demo-like songs in the vein of "17" and "?", that's just the type of artist he was, he lacked the discipline to do better and although I wasn't into it, it was clearly appealing to today's short attention spans and social media.

Lil Nas X already copied that formula btw but he's less talented and lacks that "badass"/tormented guy/savior image that drives teenagers crazy.

I don't DJ at every function

J. Cole was making his best music when he was just a cheap Kanye but after he dissed Kanye and stopped taking inspiration from him his music started sounding more boring than ever
False Prophets 2016 > 4YEO 2016
Coincidence? I think not!

Now there is Kodak Black, a guy who has a natural knack for rapping, was a hitmaker, and mixed classic Southern rap with modern Thugger/Future type s*** seamlessly. Unlike X he kept honing his craft and went out with his most cohesive and artistic project thus far.

Juice Wrld, Tentacion and Kodak were supposed to become the biggest names in hip hop for the new gen. Uzi could've been up there with them following the success of XO Tour Life if he handled things differently too.

lmao facts

since ye has bowed out of secular music, the game is in disarray. this isnt a drake vs. ye comment or any of that other dumb s***; ye held the torch when it came to creativity in hip hop. without his lead, this s*** is all in shambles

i pretty much agree. I saw him maybe getting more unique with his projects and having a even more insane core fanbase while also going up against drake on the charts. Lil Nas X is like just more cringe and corny and just so PBS lmao

OP really couldve ended this post after the first sentence

the grammys this year felt so sad. not only cause mid was nominated. it was the fact that in 2019 all we got was mid. there wasnt a project that connected, cause there is not an artist that can connect on the level of ye can, serving the mainstream something digestible yet still creative on such a consistent basis.

F*** up

“Protect your sound” - playboi Carti

Stopped reading at Wayne. The man tried to experiment and got killed for it lol. Can’t just blame the artists blame without blaming the public

Yeah, I know that Post Malone tries to seem like a rebel by smoking cigs, getting more and more face tats and pushing that "rockstar" gimmick.. but it's not doing much and he's just too vanilla. He's really more of an Ed Sheeran type dude than a Kurt Cobain. His personality is too dry and his music is too harmless.

We all need inspiration there's nothing wrong with being inspired by others
I was sitting here all day watching Kobe Bryant interviews just realizing how brilliant and smart this guy was and it just pushes me to be better, this man was 17 years old talking and acting like a 30 year old dude, this man was something else

Talking about current Wayne but ok

Yeah he experimented, got s*** on, and went back. You follow logic my man?

Or maybe he can try to experiment by making good music and not basura like Rebirth

He's kinda Thug and Future but also West coast rap inspired

If you didn't tell me he knew Nipsey I could still think they're from the same musical space

This isn't even about experimenting but just being inspired by different types of music
Wayne just makes the same music he's been making for how long now, problem is that it doesn't sound as good as it used to
If that formula works for him cool but me personally I can't sit and listen to the same s*** over and over again

My rule if it's bad scrap it

That's why it's called experiment it can succeed or fail