the underground is great for lyricists but the dynamics have changed through

You do realize people said the standards were pretty low during the pro era, of, black hippy, asap mob era too. Most of those acts you named arent top tier rappers either.

Juice WRLD rapped way better than X by freestlying alone

And X wasn't even that great bar for bar. Show me a super technically impressive X verse, you can't. And his flows sucked ass.

I think OP is just asking about mainstream

then yeah none but kids dont care about lyricism

people actually like lil nas x?

Juice WRLD blew X out of the water in terms of rapping

Fr

I always saw them as some of the strongest class of rappers among any generation of hip hop tbh

I dnt listen to old hip hop (mid 2000s and below) so idk
Maybe im biased

Dude is gifted can't wait to hear his new s***

Kodak?
Ski mask?
Cordae?
Lil Uzi when he’s not a simp

I hate that people view the new gen as rappers like lil pump and lil xan

XXX was probably the most entertaining tho.

He has couple gems in his loosies fam

He was like a diet version of a hood earl sweatshirt

6ix9ine

there’s plenty

Denzel Curry

And yeah, like others in this thread have said already, Juice WRLD was a far better rapper than X. X had a nice flow sometimes but his lyrics were completely nonsensical. Juice had flow and substance.

This was completely off the dome btw

Roddy??

Juice Wrld bit his flow and style in like 2 songs. His freestyles are all the same subject matter.

And saying that X wasn’t good bar for bar is dumb, dude had hella different flows and s***. Just search up some of his s*** before saying that.

idk about that, but he was the last new gen rapper that really had it all. Juice was mighty close tho

Kodak nigga

X has never rapped like this

lmao