-Covid
-2nd Trump era
-Public shootings all over the place
-Immigration issues
-Political unrest unlike any other point this century
-Wars going on all over the world

Yet according to hip hop the world is all about ass, t***, d**** and money still. It's a big ole party! S*** is OUTRAGEOUS. Where are the leaders? This the same genre that brought you "Fight The Power", "Fuck The Police", "The Message", "White Manz World", "Brenda's Got A Baby" etc...

Where is this generations Ice Cube? Pac? Nas? Where is this gens prime Kanye coming from? If the music was good at least--but we're more than halfway through the decade and we've got MAYBE 3-4 classic records this decade. It's dire man. The rappers at the top been driving the genre to the ground for the last 10 years and now here we are--at the point where fans of the genre say anything not about b****es or "bumping in the whip" is "scare the hoes music". Before catering to women was a negative, you'd get dissed if that was the case ("99% of your fans wear high heels"). Now its a genre of streamers and lames. And if you disagree, then you are part of the problem and not really a rap fan in the first place. "Why another god damn dance track gotta hurt"

Not Like Us out now

everyone is overly exposed to politics more than ever cause of social media. lots of people dont wanna hear politics again in music movies,sports etc

Phonte on the current sound of Hip Hop from 2024:

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"Now you dealing with a group of kids that grew up doing school shooter drills since they was in second grade. Like their music is gonna sound frenetic"

"very chaotic very chaotic and so I think you know that's their expression so it's like it it goes against everything from my era that I feel but I understand that that's their era and every generation is supposed to break the rules"

You Drake stans can dismiss it all you like, but there are uncontacted tribes in Africa crip walking to that song as we speak

dave blunts

genre got assimilated entirely into the wider american culture creating a distinct class of black petty bourgeois and bourgeois proper on top of developing its own media appendix that is entirely in agreement with larger american media machine

Nothing wrong with Hip Hop being a "Big Ole Party", the problem is that the content and artistry just sucks.

the media as we knew it is dying

idk man it’s been a lot of good s*** coming out this decade

The internet and cringe culture did more damage than we usually admit

This too though

live laugh love out now

Yall wanted political quietism in the 2000’s and 2010’s and now ur mad af that you got it

ns by destroylonely begs to disagree

I think us consumers, can help if u really want that to expand and growth

U should put ur money where ur words at

Start supporting rappers that deliver the message instead of just streaming

The whole DaBaby Megan Lil Nas X era was the lowest point in Hip Hop, I have experienced as a fan. Full corporate music with nothing behind it.

rap caviar era

Armand hammer mercy 11/7

that was his peak i fear

prolly but idc, tape so good

I’m liking it, maybe not the the mainstream stuff so much but in general it’s ok