Is the fact there is no wave to carry it into the next era when HipHop needs it the most.

When oldheads said HipHop was dying back in 2006-2007, the Ringtone era was thriving and keeping it afloat until the early 2010s class started coming up around the late 00s to start the blog era

Now, there is nothing that’s showing any progression in mainstream rap

Opium doesn’t count because those rappers got no buzz outside of the underground

Hip hop is fine.

Hip hop is in a great place , it’s about to change once again and something new will come out of it

There’s no way idiots like u are still saying Opium has no buzz

Im getting old : the thread : part 72

Drake

This is very true

Don't listen to none of them, but you'll be surprised on how much buzz opium has tbh

Drake dropped some fire songs

Whether you like it or not, the youth always what decides what’s hot.

Remember, old heads back in the day used to s*** on Lil Wayne, yet he’s revered as one of the goats to our gen.

Memes like this existed

Those 2020 SoundCloud rappers don’t have mainstream buzz

They got their cult fan bases but I doubt the average person know they exist

Rappers are coming out saying rap is dying almost every day, try again

yup, the old guard is still keeping hiphop alive several years later which is sad af. but its yall fault considering the no-talent having s***ters u guys hype up. we were bound to end up like this

I swear people just ignore this

I had a Wayne avi during this time and I would constantly get s*** on for having it

It’s just a cycle and you either fall victim or grow up

Lil Wayne was the biggest rapper at the time

These rappers now aren’t at that level or get hot and fade quick

we have a new lil wayne but y'all accuse him of being white

Quality wise, it's alright.

It's only losing some commercial dominance in the charts/sales but, as long as quality albums still drop, I'm good.

Many of my favorite rap albums this decade weren't chart toppers.

The opium/underground folks getting gassed have no intentions on being a top dog and would rather make “fun” music for middle school temu shoppers who will ask where the next album is 2 months after release

Gotta be trolling.

Lil Baby would've somewhat sufficed but Jack?

just say that you hate women

they were lowkey right 🤭

Jack has yet to evolve from being a Drake clone

He legit got a #1 song off remaking the Motto lol

Jack Harlow is dumpster juice