Yeah if you guys quit hyping up mid and getting mad when people tell you to stop gassing up meme rappers

But a lot of y’all don’t care about the health of the genre and just here for the jokes and the memes so yeah

no lol

1-90s
2-2010s
3-2000s

If we're strictly talking rapping and emceeing, hell no.

Actual rapping in the mainstream has taken a dive for a while. Proof is that Ludacris wasn't really in people's top 5 that often in the early 2000's on the same level of Jay/Nas/Em/Ghostface/3 Stacks/etc., yet Luda sounds like Nas compared to 90% of rappers today, including the non-trap ones.

Too many rappers today hide behind beats, autotune, and having a weird aesthetic to hide the fact that their rapping is trash.

That being said, production is much more diverse today than it was back then and rap is much more open-minded to innovation and new ideas compared to the past. Astroworld is one of the best produced albums I've ever heard in my life and the replay value is great.

Plus, with the Internet and Spotify, you can find all types of albums and artists catered to your interests.

Tbh not extremely familiar with that scene, but I love Funcrusher Plus, Black Star, Reflection Eternal, and Overcast!.

Definitely not an authority on the era

you familiar with cannibal ox his probs best rappers come out of that scene

drops one classic and dips

always been, there's plenty of new lyrical talent out there for y'all to listen to. just like kendrick said, if y'all really miss when hip hop was rapping, then killer mike would be platinum

Yes indeed—funnily enough only through billy woods interviews have I heard of them, along with Definitive Jux

I think we're watching what happened to rock n roll happen to hip hop in real time. I think we have 2 decades max before it turns into its equivalent of imagine dragons

Not mainstream wise though.

NBA Youngboy and Kodak are both new school praised as lyrical rappers today and they can't even hold a candle to prime T.I., never mind Jay, Wayne, Em, and Camron.

Rapping ability declined sharply my dude. But I agree that's it better to focus on artists you like than focus on the mainstream. I've been listening to Alfredo and Open Mike Eagle a lot and enjoying myself.

No

Depends what you mean, there are some seriously gifted rappers who are younger, but they aren't getting mainstream attention. The fact that the grammys added a melodic rap category is pretty clear evidence that what constitutes rap has changed.

no

and it wont be as good as it was in the late 80s, or the mid 90s either it is what it is

90s
10s
00s

Mario Judah up next bruhfam!

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Idk why mods locked it but this will be proven %100 right in the future

You can’t get mad at fans when rappers like him too lol

bro we got better lyrical rappers those Kodak and young boy lmao. id say the mosts mainstream "semi-lyrical" rapper would be Lil Baby and he does touch on real s*** in his music. it's never just bullshit when it comes to him. and you gotta remember that WE control the mainstream, if you guys want more lyrical dudes, y'all gotta go support lyrical dudes and get them popping. Freddie Gibbs still doing less than 100K first week is cuz of y'all (not you specifically but you know what I mean)

Lil Baby lyrical?

Now I've heard it all

Kodak??? bro come on.. I mean YB maybe but most of the time he isn't really spitting like that.

It's just a trend, wait like 1-2 years and I'm sure that lyrics will start making a return while autocrune goes out. Just like how 2008-2010 had alot of that bullshit and then 2011-2015 was all just about spitting hard

2010s being better than the 2000s is the WOAT opinion on this site

it's taking my all to not throw another rant about the state of rap

right?

everyday I REALLY want to go on a rant, but at the same time it's pretty well accepted and people agree that mainstream rap and tiers 1-2 of rap right now are GARBAGE.

I know that. I've binged on a lot of types of rap this year I just listened to every track on Pop Smoke's latest album for the 10th time....lol. As well as Alfredo too to name a few.

I was just saying that Ludacris was someone purists back then didn't see as an elite rapper but he'd be considered elite today because of the standards being lowered.

I guess I'm just saying that the bar has been lowered in general. I'm not singling out artists per say because everyone's taste is different.

But the standards of lyricism and classic albums has been lowered.

Eternal Atake is considered a "classic" for today but compare it to the Blueprint and Supreme Clientele and it just doesn't hit the same.

Like I said, though, I prefer the beats of this generation and I feel albums today have more diverse content compared to the early 2000's. And there was a lot of wannabe gangsters and club rappers with limited content in the early 2000's. So both eras have their pros and cons.