I want to further emphasize that the blog era was a coming of age for early millennial artist coming out of high school/college into a new digital world. That’s why there were so many artist that popped up around the same time with alternative styles:
Also the biggest catalyst was the Kanye vs 50 sales war which sorta dictated the direction of hip hop and fashion.
There was so many mechanisms happening simultaneously that made that era so special.
We might see a grassroots movement emerge in response to automated/ai music but in order for it to feel cohesive there will need to be platforms and spaces that focus on this. And it will
Need to be more than one platform.
Back then it was xxl, 2dopeboyz, nahright, datpiff, even tumblr in the later blog era.
Hope yall remembered the logins to your Karmaloop account
bro Karmaloop lmfaooo havent seen that name in years