Particularly his moody, trap-rnb d*** raps that basically invented a zillion emo rappers?

Like for thug even tho what he did was new we can still see the wayne, the gucci in him for drake we can see the Ye, the jay etc

For future what even were his influences cus im listening to widely praised song, codeine crazy rn and this s*** actually is wild. Absolutely nothing sounded like it in 2014

Future the new and improved Andre

Id say that’s thug even tho he claims he never paid attention to his music

Kid Cudi was the OG tho
All that s*** saturated now

I wanted to say cudi/808s too but im not sure future was listening to that kinda stuff the same way you could say a drake or an asap rocky was

Wayne tbh

Wayne duh

Futures “Pluto” alter ego was a Cudi “moon man” homage

Everyone in 08-13 was listening to cudi

wayne if anyone

i feel like future kinda came into that wave by himself though

also lucki is baby pluto

Wayne the predecessor of both future and thug

Probably Wayne and Gucci

Ppl will disregard, but Young Dro. Dude was just a lil ahead of his time. Woulda blown bigger if he came a generation later. The rhyme patterns, subject matter, etc. Very similar.

The beastie boys

He mixed the dark elements of Cudi and the Gucci Atlanta rap together and created his own lane. Compare Pluto to Honest and by Monster he mastered that sound

Lil Wayne - Rebirth

They still are

T Pain
Wayne
Gucci
Maybe Cudi

Just like with everyone who blew up in the 10s it all comes back to Wayne

real answer is that’s just how everyone in Atlanta sounded around then though