this a classic (best)

Ludacris thread reminded me of this one (worst)

will be disappointed if no Ghetto Techno by page 2

worst: Kid Cudi FLEX snippet

Drake working with Yeat, Drakeo, Smiley, etc It's been a long time since So Far Gone

Gucci sounded great with Pooh Shiesty and Durk. As a whole he adjusted to the autotune/melodic era well, which is funny considering when he heard future his first thought was to steal Future's sound.

back in 2013-15, while it did feel like they were being forced to work with him, TI made some great songs with Young Thug and some of Thug's peers.

Lil Wayne adapted to trap's growing success better than his peers

I was impressed with how Meek adapted to rise of melodic rap, he was working with Uzi and Thug and it felt authentic.

If you showed me the Detroit wave in 2016 and told me Yachty would fit in on a track with them, I'd have thought you were dumb or he would be doing the hooks. but boat self inserted himself into that scene better than you'd think.

idk not all of those are the best examples for the thread but they all stuck out to me.

Jay electronica rapping on a tiktok edit audio on that mid album from last year

this is the only tik tok acknowledgement i want from a 40 year old.

does this fall under best or worst?

best: juicy j mixtapes run

Best

Worst

Carti’s not “new”, his first hit dropped a whole decade ago this year

Dude im agenda posting

my bad bro, so am i

Worst:

i can't agree with this post. apparently kendrick has been making a name for himself in the underground for a decade plus now, and even if you do consider that style to be a new trend, it's pretty transparent Carti was chasing a younger audience by working with him.

The yeat collabs the first time I felt like drake sounded old af & washed on a song

I think Cudi spazzed on this

I erased this mid from my mind

Doesn't really fit with what you mean but DOA is a pretty bad example of an older rapper trying to fight against a new trend

recent best

in his book Decoded, Jay defends the song and specifies he wasn't talking about Kanye lol. and in his defense I think rappers got better at the "Drowning your voice in autotune" thing in the next generation.

i don't want to listen to song after song from t-pain and most people don't either. and some will disagree because they like a specifc hit but rest assured there's a reason most of them have fallen out of rotation

Song was actually hard at the time but Jay Z overestimated his pull with that one

Auto tune aint equal to throwback jerseys lol

Hot take but my favorite era of auto tune is like 07-12 when niggas didnt know how to use it fr

Had a lot of character

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