people love 50 because he came up when lots of people were young and hes just that good and got actual hits to him, x is in that category too

but people f*** with trav drake and kendrick just as much so its not like current rap isnt big over there

Wrong

Look at the great American icon SpongeBob SquarePants

But Game just dropped a pretty fire album that will probably be among the best rap albums this year and I was just seeing some Akademiks video where in some random week in the summer it was among the top played Apple Music albums or something like that, competing with ICEMAN, Bully and the Mount Rushmore Lil Baby album cover from a few years ago. The only way someone would say he's washed is because he doesn't have some huge record out but does Veeze Lil Baby Lucki Carti have a huge record out right now? Lol aside from maybe Ganger they certainly haven't dropped an actual RAP album better than this in the past few years

@thagreatone402
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I don’t care what the numbers look like. This album is a classic.
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Lol

I think as 3 stacks said it before it's definitely bc as it's in the name hip hop is very much about being "hip" and trying but failing to be hip gets cringe very quickly.

there's very few rappers that have managed to stay relevant for more than a few years bc it isn't easy to either be timeless enough for your style to not age badly (someone like mos def maybe) or be tapped in w what's new enough to keep up with a constantly changing landscape (kanye for a while)

Hip hop was built on being hip and focused on the youth culture. As the genre ages the pitfalls of that mentality still lingers and has only really started to be addressed with older acts as they continue to age gracefully with their music

spongebob is a wageslave so he's infinitely relatable

to your point tho: i think it's a media literacy thing because how do we expect someone to continuously reinvent the wheel when he's lucky he did it the first time?

who do you feel is aging gracefully?

Rap fans are smarter than rock fans and more willing to call the older guys out for their s***

Oral tradition

Because the hip-hop audience is young man, they don’t give a f***. They’re constantly on to the next thing

That man is washed like James from Metallica is

Nas, Common, Clipse

Sgp obv

aint they call axl rose that

Hip hop and rap has always been more competitive then other genres

Good question!

feel like a big reason is because one of the basis of rap is being boastful and braggadocios. so there is always the time in one's career where their abilities and popularity align with their arrogance and confidence but once either one of those or any other attribute decreases significantly which in most cases comes naturally with age, us as humans i think innately just love seeing someone be knocked off of a "high horse" especially when no humility was ever shown while said person was at the intersection and peak of youth x power. i mean you could argue that humility isn't really hiphop. so by the time guys get older and aren't as naturally at the top of their game and have lost popularity we as a collective are almost glad to see it because majority of their subject matter has been about how great they are year after year. just a theory

young hip hop fans are stupid young and dont have common sense and make them selves look like a******s when they stupid s*** like this because they dont think before what they say

Younger generations dumb as bricks. Specially this past one. No respect at all for the legends.

Is he a wageslave if he does it for the love of the game?

he's an uncle tom

zoomer brain

Zoomers do not give a s*** about albums