title. Obviously greater star caliber acts now, but I'm talking sounds. Music today doesn't seem like it's nearly as good or interesting and this year serves as a perfect example.

Yes /thread

Any era really tbh is better

mostly likely

their hasn't been anyone i could say has potential to became a goat

i think thats why people like Freddie Gibbs and Griselda group finally getting some attention after years people ignoring them since you could say big 3 have declined

Is water wet?

What point are we saying begins the current era?

Well we dont remember the bad elements of the blog era so it's easy to say so in hindsight

That being said overall I'd say yeah it was a creative explosion and a particularly high point

We been at a low point for the genre since the final months of 2018, the worst since 2006-2009

wait til KTT2 pops off... Bussy Tapes Vol. 1 otw

In my opinion, and I'm probably wrong, I think you can call MBDTF the end of blog era and Yeezus was around the time of the transition to the current state of the genre. Not saying that these are the causes of the shift in music, but just to use as a general reference of time.

U think Kendrick has declined?

Yea if overused synth presets and stinky hi hats are your thing sure

Yes 100 f***ing percent

Man went from tpab to damn to the black panther album... I'd call that a decline

Yeah absolutely it was

The blog era was one of the peaks of rap to date

He'll drop a classic next year and be right back on track

Trust me I totally hope so and expect to see it happen

so glad to see other people ITT acknowledge this actually

some of it must be nostalgia, but i really do think the music was better then, as was the way the culture was mediated by blogs instead of social media

generally speaking, the effort put into rap songs has declined year-after-year - it's become really obvious lately. just look at Ye's latest work, for example. and he's still considered a visionary in music.

Come on man. Counting the black panther album is a reach

Ok then he went from tpab to damn. You don't have to look at BP but he's on 5 songs on it. Point still stands if you choose to ignore BP

I don’t consider Damn a decline tbh

Absolutely.

Damn is not even close to what tpab or uu were

That's a decline