There’s valleys and peaks, mid to late 00’s wasn’t as hot as 90s and early 00’s and early to mid 2010’s. There’s great music coming out now it’s just not as it was during that peak era

Why waste time on this tired conversation when we can talk about how good the underground is rn

massively, im not saying they’re equivalents but imagine if drake, kendrick, and cole died in 2011

fire music in every sub genre is coming out except there’s no real mainstream hits coming from lyrical and skilled rapper rappers

Mixtapes carry a different meaning now than 2011, Dangerous Summer was marketed as a mixtape and was fire and Rebel is trending towards being a classic

Mixtapes carry a different meaning now than 2011, Dangerous Summer was marketed as a mixtape and was fire and Rebel is trending towards being a classic

I mean art without restrictions, samples without clearance necessary

Literally every generation says the same s***

What rap artists from the 2020s are matching the 2010s or 2000s or 1990s

Youngboy

Kanye, dentist, nitrous yadayada

Lil Baby was the beginning of the end if you ask me

Yea tbh

After that everyone started copying each other's sound

what about dababy?

that was the last era before 99% of music listeners streamed

the market has adjusted to what streaming has done to their brains

y'all are learning finally

break out those ipods boys

yea same time period tbh

that era of rappers were like the last mainstream rappers lowkey

Nobody want to express themselves to the fullest

also alot of the key players got murked before the decade could start

mid to late 2000s you still had legends though

argument is tired

can make up hypotheticals about any artist ever

There was never a valley this deep breh and there is zero indication that another peak is otw at least in terms of multiple YOUNG (still in 20s) quality (Skilled either in lyrics, flow/delivery, or creativity or all 3) commercially successful (actually does numbers) artist active simultaneously. Every other era had that

will not be another peak until streaming is no longer the main form of music listening

Cacs

The drake vs Kendrick beef was so forced and polarizing rap was pretty much exposed as nothing more than grown men cosplaying as characters or "entertainers"

I don't think anyone in hip hop/rap cares about anything other than money. There is no more love for the music or the craft just egos and greed

During the 2000s yeah you had mfs who just were bag chasing but there were also some genuinely creative artists that could also make hits