Skinn Foley

1y

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

Bobby_96

1y

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.

Bobby_96

1y

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.

Melz

1y

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)

Classique

1y

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

Windmaster

1y

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

Flaphead

1y

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.

insertcoolnamehere

1y

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

"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?

Classique

1y

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

Flaphead

1y

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.

Hurry Up Mission

1y

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

afterimage

1y

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***

Wonyoungism

1y

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

Skinn Foley

1y

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

Bobby_96

1y

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.

ribbed

1y

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

jeffpesos

1y

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

Classique

1y

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

ribbed

1y

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