Whenever brought up eras it's a general consensus that 2016-2018 were the worst years for rap the last decade due to the "low quality, low budget music" that came out of that era.

Why is this? Can agree to some extent that lots of music from that era has aged horrendously but, to me: truly streaming era (2019-2020) is way worse than SoundCloud era.

You didn’t think this was being talked about enough here?

Didn't answer my question.

too much mid, once peep died i stopped caring

Would you say that the styles got repetitive?

Who’s hating on 2016?

I mean we were in 2016 but not anymore

Probably the best era music has ever experienced and changed music forever

Lot of people on this site generally say it was a bad year for rap.

Looking at this playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Llvc63TLUXal5g6W9uLwh?si=AyxxFzrnS_e8meXoZm1M-A

(not mine) I can generally see the repetitiveness of the music however. There isn't lots of diversity in the styles.

Most of it Bubblegum pinhead music but there’s some gems

yeah it did it was cool to see peep, purpp, $b etc come up but lots they styles had zero substance which now i rarely care for any of them outside of $B now even then idc anymore.

I don't think it's the most hated by people our age, to older people they might hate it

There's a lotta trash dudes that did make it in that period tho, and people may hate them in particular which makes it seem heavily hated

i dont consider stuff like uzi, carti, 21 etc as soundcloud by 2016

Usually see this for 2017/2018 while 2016 was seen as a good mix of new sounds and big releases

Streaming def changed a lot in rap tho

Agreed with you on that, the music had no substance and does not hold up overtime. However there are some gems in it.

It was a time fanbases became aware of eachother. Most hip hop fans discovered how big X and peep were once they died

Just dust heads and those with literal hate in their hearts had an issue with it smh

I'm about to be 24. Lots of people my age were not "hip" to it. From what I remember.

brokencyde is a stretch. its more like pop punk, we got some gems off that era but also some terrible corny s***

nah i wouldnt listen too anything from it which isnt carti anymore say that that era really start to turn me off on rap and which moved into streaming era when people hype total mid ie dababy or nba youngboy then its become very boring and predictable

Best era, but I would say 2015-2017

Same, I feel like most people f***ed with the peak of it, uzi, carti, etc

Then you had all of the guys shooting 2/20 that are trash.

best era of 2010s*

Only oldheads and pretentious people s*** on soundcloud rap