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  • Dec 22, 2023
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    Skinn Foley

    yeah if you've only listened to one album this year

    if im being honest my music taste is extremely diverse. i listen to vaporwave, dnb, rnb, rock, ambient, electronica, barber beats and more

    a great chaos AOTY

  • Dec 22, 2023
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    Bobby_96

    You're right.

    There's plenty of great acts today.

    Hell, I think Carti, Ken Carson, and Yeat make great sounding music even though their lyrics are mid af. And I'm fine with rap that simply sounds great without the lyricism.

    There's always room for that.

    I'm just comparing the scenes as a whole collectively. You know modern mainstream rap ain't in good shape when Billboard is hinting at giving Killer Mike AOTY lmao.

    I didn't realize how bad mainstream rap had gotten, and the significance of that decline for the culture, until this site pointed it out. The streaming era can easily put people into bubbles if they know where to find the stuff they want so I assumed the game was much healthier than it actually is. Mainstream rap is the worst it's ever been since rap went mainstream, including the mid-80s where the genre was still getting off the ground

  • Melz ⚜️
    Dec 22, 2023
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    Bobby_96

    Female rap or Thot rap still gets played in a lot of parties and clubs today.

    "Players" in particular is a song I hear often when I go clubbing.

    Mainstream female rap is literally awful besides Sexy Red though

    And they are popular bc it’s a direct rehash of 2000s songs even sampling them and they rely on s***appeal. Women will always be sexy. Nostalgia bait to the fullest

    And that isn’t a genre it’s a subgenre. Once again name a GENRE that the main songs played at parties aren’t old (electronic and pop don’t count)

  • Dec 22, 2023
    Melz

    Mainstream female rap is literally awful besides Sexy Red though

    And they are popular bc it’s a direct rehash of 2000s songs even sampling them and they rely on s***appeal. Women will always be sexy. Nostalgia bait to the fullest

    And that isn’t a genre it’s a subgenre. Once again name a GENRE that the main songs played at parties aren’t old (electronic and pop don’t count)

    I know it's cool to hate on Meg now but Cobra is a classic

  • Dec 22, 2023
    Classique

    2021 lone is like when ben simmons put up all star numbers his rookie year and kinda just wasn't as good since but still good

    for sure, i get it tho i could see the whole opium s*** being a good investment for him but before that s*** really got going lone was in his bag

  • Dec 22, 2023
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    Windmaster

    if im being honest my music taste is extremely diverse. i listen to vaporwave, dnb, rnb, rock, ambient, electronica, barber beats and more

    a great chaos AOTY

    Thread is making me think I ought to give that album a try tbh. I didn’t care for the last one but it wasn’t bad by any means.

  • Dec 22, 2023

    I've been impressed with the underground this year though, and Trav's comeback

  • Dec 22, 2023

    somewhere in miami bobbalam reading this thread rn

  • Dec 22, 2023
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    But yeah it’s tiring after a certain point. I can’t pretend hearing some white boy who can barely drive probably rap about droppin sets and sippin lean and s*** man

    It’s not even creative anymore. And at a certain point the vulture ness outweighs any artistic merit.

    It doesn’t take some 4th eye to recognize s*** like that is trash. Or atleast severely dropping in quality of what s*** was 10 years ago

    But imma just find the songs I like here and there. If an artist comes that’s hard I’ll listen idk. S*** is definitely stale at this point.

    Especially when most of these niggas either crash out off d**** or get arrested, or they have the privilege (money, skin color, whatever) to remove themselves from the genre and rebrand into a pop star or making twitch videos or some s***

  • Dec 22, 2023
    Flaphead

    Thread is making me think I ought to give that album a try tbh. I didn’t care for the last one but it wasn’t bad by any means.

    It's a solid album

    A classic? Not if you ask me lol

  • Dec 22, 2023

    OP won. I agree with everything that you said

  • insertcoolnamehere

    I see this phrase constantly used as some type of jab or low-efforted comeback whenever users don't reply positively to a post about a middle schooler's rap career pushing lean or a drill rapper just copying the plot from SAW blowing his throat out yelling in the mic.

    And I just want yall to understand as a 29 year old that I speak for us when we say

    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ram7AKbtkGE

    "you're growing out of touch"

    Cool! There's nothing to be in touch with. Judging by the charts and the lack of #1s the rest of the world is also finding nothing to touch within this rap s*** lol.

    Man all the new niggas are full of anxiety and percs why tf would I wanna be in touch with that? Parties dont even be the same now "scaring the hoes" has become a real thing NOBODY talks to each other

    I also find it funny it's only a...certain type of young rappers yall bring up when it comes to "pushing new artists" because, it was crickets when niggas was bringing up niggas like cisco swank and ghais guevara on here.

    Just saying when yall (and it be mainly niggas that are...literally in they mid 20s or even late 20s saying this so yall really projecting) say this, it's not the ace in the hole that y'all think it is 'nahmean?

    I don't even think its being out of touch.

    Feels disingenuous to say someone is out of touch for not listening to 14 year olds who dont have a song on billboard hot 100 or bubbling under.

  • Enes 🧿
    Dec 22, 2023
    Classique

    opium is great it's the people that try to sound like them that end up sounding like s***

    Im jus joking brother. I like them but yeah the clones are terrible but the fans gas them up too

  • Dec 22, 2023
    Flaphead

    Thread is making me think I ought to give that album a try tbh. I didn’t care for the last one but it wasn’t bad by any means.

    if u like dense dark orchestral trap beats its fire, theres some decent rage songs too and some other s*** that idk what to call it but nightcore 2 is fire

  • Dec 22, 2023
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    Hurry Up Mission

    I see what you’re saying OP but some people def come in some popping threads on here just to s*** on other people having fun on some “ music from MY era was SO much better.” That’s when we hit em with the
    It’s ok to acknowledge you’re no longer the main arbiters of taste, idk why people are so eager for the approval of high schoolers

    Lmao no y’all don’t just be acting cool and reacting with thumbs up. Y’all cry and immediately start insinuating that we’re just not looking for good new music or we’re “out of touch” like OP said

  • Dec 22, 2023
    afterimage

    But yeah it’s tiring after a certain point. I can’t pretend hearing some white boy who can barely drive probably rap about droppin sets and sippin lean and s*** man

    It’s not even creative anymore. And at a certain point the vulture ness outweighs any artistic merit.

    It doesn’t take some 4th eye to recognize s*** like that is trash. Or atleast severely dropping in quality of what s*** was 10 years ago

    But imma just find the songs I like here and there. If an artist comes that’s hard I’ll listen idk. S*** is definitely stale at this point.

    Especially when most of these niggas either crash out off d**** or get arrested, or they have the privilege (money, skin color, whatever) to remove themselves from the genre and rebrand into a pop star or making twitch videos or some s***

    i’ve been getting into older s*** lately

    i discovered The Birthday Party like 3 days ago

  • Dec 22, 2023
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    one day one rapper is going to unite the old and young heads and that rapper is yung Fazo 🔥🔥

  • Dec 22, 2023
    Wonyoungism

    one day one rapper is going to unite the old and young heads and that rapper is yung Fazo 🔥🔥

    lmao

  • Dec 22, 2023
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    Skinn Foley

    I didn't realize how bad mainstream rap had gotten, and the significance of that decline for the culture, until this site pointed it out. The streaming era can easily put people into bubbles if they know where to find the stuff they want so I assumed the game was much healthier than it actually is. Mainstream rap is the worst it's ever been since rap went mainstream, including the mid-80s where the genre was still getting off the ground

    imo it feels like mainstream hip hop is entering a similar era that mainstream rock was in during the 2000s

  • Dec 22, 2023
    Bobby_96

    And what's hilarious is that you can't even use the whole "ya'll probably don't go to parties" schtick anymore cause modern rap doesn't even get played at clubs like that except for female rap.

    Female rap or Thot rap is keeping the modern club scene alive.

    Meanwhile, there's no shortage of classic club or party songs from the 90's, 00's, and early-mid 2010's. Even young people today would rather dance to Wobble or Always On Time than a run of the mill modern Trap/Drill/Rage song today.

    I remember watching a club scene in Atlanta where Lil Baby was playing and the crowd was so dead, it looked more like a lounge than a club lmao.

    I bet if "Get Low", "Yeah", or "Move B****" started playing, the whole mood would change though.

    Lmao nah this is real. DJs not playing that s*** anymore i’m clubs when I go. That is literally scaring the hoes music

  • Dec 22, 2023

    Damn you ethered them lil niggas op

  • Dec 22, 2023
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    ribbed

    imo it feels like mainstream hip hop is entering a similar era that mainstream rock was in during the 2000s

    linkin park
    killswitch engage
    arcade fire
    phoenix

    2000s rock is my favorite era of rock

    edit: jus peeped the mainstream part my bad

  • Dec 22, 2023
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    jeffpesos

    Lmao no y’all don’t just be acting cool and reacting with thumbs up. Y’all cry and immediately start insinuating that we’re just not looking for good new music or we’re “out of touch” like OP said

    Y’all are out of touch tbh. Y’all just want the blog era back

  • Dec 22, 2023
    Classique

    yeah bro like maybe it's just anecdotal because it's my younger cousin and her friends but she posted some graphic of "my favorite albums" or something and of the 10 albums i wanna say 7 of them were from 2015-2018 which she was like 10 for and according to her most her friends are like that

  • Dec 22, 2023
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    ribbed

    imo it feels like mainstream hip hop is entering a similar era that mainstream rock was in during the 2000s

    Definitely lol

    Which might be for the better as rock imo improved a lot in the 2010s once it fell off in the mainstream. There's no grandiosity behind making rock music anymore. If you do it at this point, you truly just gotta love it. It doesn't get you clout like that anymore, nor money, but a lot of it is still damn good, way better than all the revivalist stuff we were getting in the 2000s

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