Just listen to 56 nights or Monster

And then listen to We don't trust you

Lyrically, production wise, it's pretty similar unless you're reaallyyyy digging deep.

And I say that as a compliment to Future. The music business is all about giving the people what they tell you they want, and they tell you what they want in the form of support.

Every flagship Drake album for eternity will be about half slaps and trap / half R&B / and sprinkle in a few 'rap' records for the rap aficionados.

The hardest part of the business is finding what connects with the consumer. Once you do that, you beat that formula into the ground.

Btw Lil Baby over 110K first week so it's not like he's completely not connecting.

Have to remember btw an artist 'connecting' has to do with a myriad of factors, with the music playing the small part.

Nah facts bro. I wasn’t a fan of High Off Life cause I thought he was moving backwards after Pluto x Baby Pluto and he deadass gave me the same album in a way I would like it the next album with INLY. Both very similar albums, but with a slightly different energy, more developed beats on INLY that really flex Future’s strengths on hard trap beats

Turned me off a lil with 9 and the blatant cosplay of Drake ATL cosplay in every non-rock song on there (six of the nine to be exact were Drake cosplay). But that Angel Eyes was solid

Listen that album gave us Chosen, Luminous, US, Feel It, and Jumpin In (would love to know as someone from Atlanta how any of these sound like Drake ATL) so I'm satisfied

not switching it up enough but he also doesn’t sound as hungry anymore

Baby was a pandemic rapper sadly imo

He’s “presence” in the game was amplified after his George Floyd riot song. Really it was one of the few successful attempts from a street rapper to take a social stance in a song and it actually worked!!!

Da baby tired but it didn’t hit right after Lil Baby. ( I loosely remember if it was da baby or not)

I think the hype has died down plus we’re so fickle as consumers in rap. This is only
Exacerbated by social media opinions on what’s actually popping in rap or what’s not.

Lil baby is not bigger than the game.

I’d argue that this was the era Baby strived in the most.

We’re all looking for the next Drake. It’s not happening. No one can hold the rap game down for as long as Drake did.

Sadly we must admit the rap genre on its own is a HARD game.
Baby only offers rap.

He might need to hop in his the House or Dudstep bag or sum

Yes. This in so many words.

These street niggas get on features with every one mad early.

That also needs to slow down a bit. 3 features max per album. MAX!!

Niggas got 10 features on an album…..

No he wasn’t. 2017-2018 was his best music and he fell off when he actually deviated too far from that sound

This like saying Wayne was a 08-09 rapper lol

2017-2018 quay global beats culminating with freestyle is why he even has the opportunity to “fall off”

This is ridiculous

This another problem everyone isnt a kanye drake type genre bending artist

You got niggas who havent even mastered their own lane of street rap trying to make afrobeats and s*** as a substitute for knowing how to actually rap lol

Baby just needs new beats and a different approach but the music industry so money driven theyll hop on a million trends before fundamentally mastering that lol

“Best music” is an opinion

Baby’s music really hit

Since the pandemic Baby hasn’t had anything that has impacted as hard as anything he did in the pandemic

He has dropped two albums since then and both have been consecutive steps backward

The sound is mundane

He caught a wave and that was it and that’s fine

Him disappearing for so long to come back with mostly the same beats, rapping with no real enthusiasm, not trying no new flows shows how artistically stunted he is

He has great rapping ability but rarely shows it any more

Gunna is thriving and he isn’t

Do you see the difference?

Baby also didn’t go jail so what’s his excuse?

His biggest appeal to me was his hunger, along with semi-decent beat selection. He's lost both, and hasn't changed anything else.

He is on pace to outsell Gunna again.

Was inevitable. A lot of these new guys have no staying power. They get a good few years in and then it’s over

They’re not generational artists

This made me realize that we will never have rappers like Ye or Lil Wayne

That's literally 99% of all musicians in the history of music lol