We have so many rappers from the 90s that are still relevant today making great music but there arent really any rappers that were able to adapt from the 80s (besides DOOM).

That's about when rap got taken over by the labels so it makes sense they'd push them out and put up their own puppets

cause rap got too complex and they couldn’t technically catch up

Jay z a billionaire and married to beyonce while nas a single millionaire... sad!

Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, and G Rap are lyrically superior to Snoop and Biggie though.

The truth is that the 90s marked the start of rap getting heavily commercialized and controversial and rappers becoming bigger stars with bigger hits.

Edit: Major labels like Death Row and Bad Boy played a big role too.

Can you link me a song of theirs that would convince me of them being greater then Biggie

he cant cause he cappin

I’m giving him the benefit of doubt

imagine sugarhill gang on a trap beat

He didn’t say greater or better in general.. strictly lyrically

Qtip

Ya got them f***ed up

Lyrically they can rap w snoop and big

Ice T too, still can outrap hella rappers

cuz they weren't good

Dum bass

80's rappers actually evolved technically and put out some of their best material in the early 90's

But after that rap changed too much like you said.

Rakim literally pioneered internal and multisyllabic rhymes. He walked so Biggie and Pac could run cuz before him rap was sounding like this.

You'd like 4,5,6 album from Kool G Rap if you like mafiaso rap. That's probably his most appealing album to new listeners

The values of the culture changed as well. People don’t understand that the people who started making and buying rap after 1992 weren’t the same people into what was working for the 3-5 years before that

Well De La, Gang Starr and Tribe both debuted in the 80s, although they may be exceptions and not the rule

They definitely pioneered the more eccentric waveforms of Hip Hop

honestly Ice-T doesn’t get brought up enough outside of West Coast discussions, he’s very underrated as a pioneer in rap at the time.

He was making gangsta rap before NWA and he could spit well too.

nah that first song is ridiculous