the Bling Bling Era: (99-03)
the Young Money Era (08-12)
the “Mumble Rap”/Soundcloud Era (15-18)

Bling era was absolute garbage. Just straight up s***.

The era in like 2011 when all hits were produced by the guy who made Airplanes by BOB and had a female singer hook

ahh when everybody was trynna get that eminem recovery formula off

Snap music era

Bling era tbh

Probably this one, I don't hate trap but it's produced the most cookie cutter rappers out of any era. This s*** had Lil Xan in it ffs

dude named the Young Money era as if that wasn't a GOAT era lol

Gangsta rap era was trash all that 90’s gang banging s*** lame as f***

soundcloud era was WOAT, and some dudes here were defending the s*** out of these awful rappers. it'll probably be the one to affect hip hop for some time

we got some gems tho can't lie

The bling bling era gave us lil Wayne my g.

Young money era is legendary.

SoundCloud era gave us all these talented kids son (e.g. Lil Uzi)

Y’all sound like the old heads y’all b**** about. Fwt was right lol

This era.

The Lil Peep/XXX emo era could genuinely be the right answer. I like both of those artists, but labels latched onto this sound and began pushing a more accessible pop version of this subgenre with artists like Juice WRLD. It's obviously still playing out, but the popularity of that sound allowed for labels to begin removing the "hip-hop" component from the new artists that they promote.

tbh who cares everything changes
and the ones who actually got talent will always move out of said era and keep going anyways

I don't like your categorization though.

I've always viewed 95-99 as a specific era where rap started to become more mainstream and the instrumentation of albums began to transcend Rap and pleasing the masses became more important. It Was Written, Life After Death, Wu-Tang Forever, 2001, Outkast in general...

00-04 was pretty much the era where Rap started to incorporate clubby sounds, Blingbling, catchy samples, Rap started to become more accessible, rappers with strong images become more prevalent (50 Cent, Eminem, Ludacris, etc)

05-10 for me is the most transitional era where Kanye and Wayne almost did the entire work to open the gates for the next generation, it's a huge shift

no this is the best one for sure. hip hop artists dabbling in other genres successfully like never before, lot of actually good mainstream artists

been downhill since 2018 started tho

wow boomers really s***ting on the soundcloud era hate to see it

wtf is bling era lol

Pretty sure that extended way past 2003. And even then it gave us a lot of quality music aka 50 cent

prolly mid 2000s, jay was retired, too much southern garbage, the goat was battling a tough addiction

I like this categorization way better. I’ve been around for all those eras

2009-12 mainstream hiphop was s***e except for wayne drake ye cudi

This one

I'll respectfully disagree, 2011-2014 was a way higher point than this, a lot of those rappers stuck around too more than 1-2 years