They only knew how to rap like Houdini, they never learned to change their flow to the contemporary flow we know now

90s brought monumental evolution for Rap

LL Cool J exists

These all classics but nah man yall got Big f***ed up

His rhyme schemes were way more advanced than these

That’s where yall really be confused at when it comes to rap, it’s the schemes that make a great rapper

Even 90s snoop had some pretty advanced schemes and patterns on doggystyle, a lot of 80s rappers had basic predictable rhyme patterns

Good question tbh

Maybe kool g and kane but not rakim. Rakim's most defining trait is his advanced rhyme schemes

And as far as snoop, snoop wasn't doing anything crazy that these 3 couldn't do

He caught a murder case or some s***/shot at his cousin rather and got deported/that started a bunch of those type of issues and plenty of the top rappers of that decade evolved from his flow

Just for context

Notice how we keep coming back to this year in this discussion no matter what angle

Yeah. One the simple flow sped up, they didn’t adapt

I haven’t been paying attention to the other posts in this thread

I honestly just picked a random year

Snoop was all aura

Looking it up rap wise some of those songs make it seem like “the first year of ‘the 90’s’” compared to 1990 seemingly like an extension of the 80’s

I feel that way about all years that end in zero at the beginning of a decade lol

Rakim

Maybe you have a point about snoop but Big was more advanced than even the great Rakim when it came the schemes imo

Big made you feel every syllable of his verses, had unpredictable flow switches, could change pace on a dime without the slightest hint that he was winded (and he was a big cat too), all with absolutely impeccable timing and rhythm (again down to the syllable of each word) and a delivery that punched through the speakers

Rakim was dead nice but Big comfortably clears

Him, Jay, and Nas all do

Kool G had crazy schemes

That Whodini style ended in 85-86.

Listen to Illmatic and tell me that ain't Kool G Rap.

His schemes were as complex as it gets.

yeah cause he went to jail lmao

This is REAL RAP

Yea, just think rakim was more advanced

Drop some recs

Even more to the point - that was instinctively the year you chose

real

THE FORCE

holy f***