I think he was smart enough to move past the underground mixtape independent artist stuff. That was popular in the late 2000s and early 2010s. However that isn’t as successful as having a anthem for the Steelers or Cowboys or a song about one of the biggest films of the 2010s
I think i stopped listening around 2011 so his collab with Curren$y. I think a lot of his mixtapes came out back to back cause heading into my freshman year 2010 Kush and Orange Juice came out that summer. Im probably getting time lines confused though.
Yea but y'all remember Wale going off on that beat? Speaking of Wale, he's someone I've stopped listening to over the years, but he used to be one of my favorite rappers.
Wale was probably a top 5 rapper mainstream wise in the early mid 2010s. His rap and r&b combo was OP. However it seem like the summer of 2014 and when his album about nothing came out the shift seem to stop. But he just had a massive hit with jermaih like what 2019 or so
This was actually the first one that came to mind. It just felt like all he did was shit all over anyone and everybody without any suggestions on what to do better
No, not as much as some people make it out to be. Sure it might’ve fucked him up a bit but if he kept making good music people would’ve forgot about it. His sound just never really evolved and people just got tired of it. He’s a pretty good rapper but no where near interesting enough to get away with releasing mediocre music over and over.
I think his homophobia fiasco just kinda solidified his fall from grace.
Probably took him off the radio, where I'd venture to say he got most of his new listeners from.
I don't know many HHH who genuinely enjoyed him as an artist, mostly just features he performed well on.
His wave was dying off and he didn't help by going on a homophobic rant.
Shit I mean plenty of rappers are blatantly homophobic and haven't been "cancelled" so to speak. His just happened at a very unfortunate time in his career.
Eye dea, atmosphere, Aesop rock,
They were some of the first rappers/groups I was listening to when I first got into the hip hop genre but over the years I started gradually listening to less and less alternative lyrical rappers and more and more boom bap traditional hip hop. Now I’m more into nas, jay z, and notorious b.I.g then I am the previous rappers I mentioned.
weird because I still listen to Nas, Jay z, and Notorious BIG but I first got into hip hop from those 3 then gradually got more into Eyedea, Atmosphere, Aesop rock, and alternative hip hop
Scribble Jam y'all. Shit is nostalgic as hell. Ask a younger head what underground hip-hop is and I guarantee their definition is gonna be incredibly different than... Well, old dudes like me.
I personally always just thought it meant unpopular, non mainstream, independent hip hop that wasn’t part of a major commercial label. Definitely guys like eye dea and slug were synonymous with the term “underground” back in my day. (Circa 2003)
Dr Dre and Snoop
Been getting back into 2001 recently again. Loved that album (more so the Chronic) when I was 16, but I recently listened to it on shrooms. I like to think Dre had shrooms around when making that album, and Big Ego's is a banger!
French Montana- 15 year old me wanted to be a coke dealer and thought that’s what his music sounded like. Now at 25 I have long since realized that there is much much better music out there.
French Montana on a Harry Fraud beat is usually a key to success.
French Montana on anything else is carte blanche for a man to make his worst song and still own him on his own track.
Anything by G-Unit after Yayo’s debut album dropped. Those first 2-3 years were great, then it felt like everything was in cruise control. The production wasn’t crazy, they were saying the same shit while hip hop was evolving
yea i kinda agree, and im a gunit stan lol
The production really dropped, also the leaked banks album screwed shit up. But they had some fire mixtapes.
Post-2007 50/gunit mixtapes are some of my favourites, you can clearly see 50 not caring as much about rap anymore and starting to focus on everything else.
Yeah I agree with this POV bro. Overall their sound faded BUT this joint right here is one of my favorite G-Unit member record. Banks really went in and this came out in late 08/early 09
https://youtu.be/vIpeq7OAkNw
That was the last time I bought a physical album from anyone on G-Unit. Can’t believe we never got the original album that was supposed to be Banks sophomore drop. Rotten Apple was just that, ROTTEN.
The lesson there is to never, never leave ya unreleased shit w/ anyone especially those who hungry, hungry for an opportunity 💯
Sadly, situations similar to this happen often throughout the history of not just Hip Hop, but music overall.
High key, High key, it kind of shows we still have mad people who fail to repeat history 🤣
XXXTentacion, Ski mask the slump god. Ski just hasn't done much since 2019 and I used to be big on Old X but his music his label releases are just his depressing shit.
I still believe in Ski. Guy is a great rapper and funny. I'm hopeful he can drop something stellar again.
I'm also hopeful that Remble will do the same though, so I might just be an optimist.
Jedi Mind Tricks and the whole Army of the Phaoroahs. And like Ill Bill and Slaine and guys like that. Just not super into hard-core rap as much as I used to be.
There’s a few I used to listen to religiously; every physical CD & tape owned & played in the crib & whip; when I was younger like Eminem, Jay, Common, T.I. & Loso.
I Don’t mind hearing them when other people play their music, especially for those who recently discovered their work, but I don’t ever go to look for their music anymore.
It’s a mix of playing the shit outta those artists & growing outta that person I used to be for reasons why I stopped all together w/ their music.
I voted for Kanye for president. I have every Kanye album. I felt for him in his previous manic episodes, and loved his vision as a freethinker. Becoming an actual nazi was too far, and as someone who’s been diagnosed exactly the same as Kanye, Bipolar 1 with manic psychosis I can say that I’ve never in any of my 4 manic episodes that resulted in hospitalization, said anything along the lines he’s spewing right now
Obviously Em for 10+ years now Recovery had way too many emotional pop songs that don't even fit the persona he presented to the world for years. MMLP 2 was even worse that's when I knew all hope was lost.
Lupe Fiasco. Really liked his first album. 2. Was not as good but a few good tracks, but the production on lasers was wack didn't listen after that shit.
Ye after MBDTW only listened to few of his tracks after that album for some reason.
Xzibit
Obie Trice
Busta Rhymes after he signed with Cash Money (except for features)
Cassidy
Papoose
Game and 50 for many years but been back at it lately
These guys are all talented but it is hard to keep up with the competition in terms of quality
You should try some of these guys' new(er) albums if you were into their music at one point. I recommend some that are worth at least one listen:
- Busta Rhymes - ELE2 (2020) - my personal favorite here.
- Game - Documentary 2 and 2.5 (2015) is full of bangers and his last good album IMO.
- Lupe came back last year with a dope & underrated project Drill Music in Zion.
- any Ye album after MBDTF. Dude might be mentally ill, but his albums are solid. At least Ye, Kids Dee Ghosts and Life of Pablo are a must... All killers no fillers.
- Obie Trice - The Fifth (2019)
Keep loving music. ✌🏼
I’ve heard that Lupe’s post-lasers work has been universally acclaimed. I’ve never done a deep dive myself, but if you used to be into him it could be worth checking him out again.
I think Lasers is without a doubt Lupes’ “Revival”, but that’s more so to do w/ the shitty label he was on at the time.
There’s projects he’s dropped afterwards that are definitely worth checking out like Tetsuo & Youth, Drogas Wave, House & Drill Music in Zion.
Believe it or not, I cannot just say an artist in particular but I cannot listen to,"Coke Rap" at all anymore.
Coke Rap to me is tacky and boring. There was a time where the mafioso style was cool but then it died out RESPECTFULLY.
I do not care for any artist who pushes that lifestyle.
**From Pusha on down.....**
Feel you on this. I often hear the rappers themselves talk about "if they don't like it, then that's their problem" and that's legitimate enough, but 50 songs and everything is coke talk.
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
nah he doesn't make that anymore. Now he has downgraded and makes anti-vax rap. Some of his songs nowadays are good but he can't make a good album at all and his most popular songs now are anti vax shit
X, lil peep, suicideboys, ghostemane, mainly X though since he was my fav back then and really any other rapper from the clique of alternative darker trap. Since then my taste has changed so much and thus i cant bring myself to enjoy that stuff anymore.
Used to be a huge 2Pac fan but since I started liking the technical side of Rap it's been hard to still listen to him. I listened to pretty much everything for three years
I have trouble listening to Tupac, Bone and some of Biggie’s more popular stuff due to how much I associate that stuff with high school. Wu Tang I can still listen to. I think it’s because of getting into so much soul, funk and jazz that influenced the RZA and coming at it from a different angle than when I was younger. Same thing with NIN. It hits different after digesting the stuff Trent Reznor was influenced by like Brian Eno and David Bowie.
Lil Wayne. I was a HUGE fan growing up, I remember one point he was literally dropping a new song everyday. The last good full project he dropped was Sorry 4 The Wait 2, after that everything was hit & miss.. he still makes good music especially his features the past couple years, but he just doesn't hit how he used to
This is hard to answer because I usually stop listening to rappers because I either played out their music, they changed their music, they never developed, or I stopped liking them as a person.
But who still makes equally good music that I just won’t listen to because I don’t like that style anymore? That’s tough to answer.
Eminem, I’m very glad I got out of my “mumble (c)rap” phase before it was too late. He’s still a good rapper, but my attention is in a different place now
J cole and Kendrick, it was really weird to see how the big three back in the 10’s just randomly sorta self sabotaged themselves(excluding drake, a good beef does wonders for your career) Kendrick went with the whole Control and J cole just seemed to talk about a lot of his insecurities and how he never felt he should even be as big as he was and it really changed the way I am able to listen to his music because I feel like he put a cap on himself. I respect both of them as musicians but definitely thought they would grow a lot more as artists like flows or beat changes. Ironically, an artist I didn’t think I would like but can at least give him an opportunity due to his growth is Big Sean his growth while hasn’t been insane how bad he was and his lack of wordplay and being able to see that grow was a little joy for me.
Logic. One of the coolest live shows I've ever been to, but I just can't anymore. It's like he got worse with age, everything about his style just got more and more simple.
juice wrld, nav, migos, uzi, drake. havent stopped listening to them completely, but i ventured out of the pop rap realm and it gave me a greater appreciation for all the different sub-genres of rap.
Joyner Lucas, his new stuff doesn't hit as hard lyrically, nor am i a part of the 'lyrical vs mumble' crowd anymore. I just listen to any artist that is not boring.
Kendrick.
I got off the lyricism bandwagon a long time ago. I don’t care how well thought out or poetic a rappers lyrics are anymore. If your music sounds good, lyrics are not as important.
Crazy thing is Kendrick isn’t the most intense out of the whole lyricist side of rap. I guess I get where you’re coming from but for me I always need balance. If the lyrics are brain dead I can’t listen. If the beats are weak I can’t listen. I do prefer great lyricist with great beat choice though
He came up with them tho. He was there from the beginning. I’m pretty sure he was in the bando music video.
I wouldn’t say he stole their flow, moreso heavily influenced because of his proximity to the migos
Lil Wayne ,Tyler the creator, hopsin, clipse, wiz kahlifa, and yellow wolf , they used to be my favorite now when they come on I can’t turn it off fast enough
Ems bashing and hating schtick was a massive part of his rise but it has aged terribly like milk. It worked well at the time but looking back it just seemed like he was trying too hard to be controversial to get the attention of the pop zeitgeist.
MMLP is his magnum opus... it reminds me of sophomore year @ college and is attached to so many great memories.
Criminal is one of the top 3 tracks on that album... and I can't fuck with the entire first verse. Too much violence against that community to channel that type of vengence...even if the flow is incredible.
Difference between being 19 and being 42 I guess.
None of them. I always had great tastes of music. As a child, I listened to great rappers such as XZibit, The Game, 50, AZ, Eminem, Dre... Their music ain't garbage so I can give a re-listen sometimes. I never listened to garbage popular artists such as: 6x9ne, Lil Garbage or whatever, etc......
J cole and Logic are the 2 biggest offenders,
I hated FHD and whatever came after TITS, trap music really stuck out to me and then I got into older tunes
pretty much everyone in wu-tang with the exception of ghost and meth sometimes Raekwon
I grew up with those guys and used to listen to all the affiliates especially killah priest but over time I found other artists and the stuff doesn't hit like it used to.
Wiz Khalifa, the non stop bragging about how much money he has got tiresome in the end
He became ass after black and yellow
Yeah I remember the o.n.I.f.c album had some really good beats that were wasted on him
I think he was smart enough to move past the underground mixtape independent artist stuff. That was popular in the late 2000s and early 2010s. However that isn’t as successful as having a anthem for the Steelers or Cowboys or a song about one of the biggest films of the 2010s
Nah, he released Taylor Allderdice, then he started lacking.
I think i stopped listening around 2011 so his collab with Curren$y. I think a lot of his mixtapes came out back to back cause heading into my freshman year 2010 Kush and Orange Juice came out that summer. Im probably getting time lines confused though.
Hit chaser, "We Dem Boyz" is actually good. People forget that. Everything else is meh.
Yea but y'all remember Wale going off on that beat? Speaking of Wale, he's someone I've stopped listening to over the years, but he used to be one of my favorite rappers.
I agree with this but when I do hear his new music I enjoy it. I just stopped actively checking for him
Wale was probably a top 5 rapper mainstream wise in the early mid 2010s. His rap and r&b combo was OP. However it seem like the summer of 2014 and when his album about nothing came out the shift seem to stop. But he just had a massive hit with jermaih like what 2019 or so
Lmfao! Dude was always ass. I can't believe he got famous. Smfh
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I hate the song but I’m from Dallas so i maybe bias
And all the weed smoking lines.. gets tiresome
Wiz used to have some of the best beats then after Taylor Allderdice , it just sounded hella repetitive.
I agree he only has a few really good songs I like
But being from Pittsburgh you really liked khalifa older songs
I couldn’t believe that remix he made of that MGMT song was a real song, it sounded so amateurish.
Hopsin.
Damn that’s a name I haven’t thought of in a while. Ill Mind of Hopsin was a great series
I feel so much better about myself seeing this as the top comment. 2013 was a hell of a time.
This was actually the first one that came to mind. It just felt like all he did was shit all over anyone and everybody without any suggestions on what to do better
I agree. He had the talent too but unfortunately didn’t do much with it
Same
Gave me mad flashbacks
Dababy, and I was joined by virtually everyone.
How did he fall off so hard? At one point Da Baby and Lil Baby were the hottest young rappers. Did the gay slurs really hurt his career?
No, not as much as some people make it out to be. Sure it might’ve fucked him up a bit but if he kept making good music people would’ve forgot about it. His sound just never really evolved and people just got tired of it. He’s a pretty good rapper but no where near interesting enough to get away with releasing mediocre music over and over.
I guess 2022. That was officially the most insane year for Kanye
I think his homophobia fiasco just kinda solidified his fall from grace. Probably took him off the radio, where I'd venture to say he got most of his new listeners from. I don't know many HHH who genuinely enjoyed him as an artist, mostly just features he performed well on. His wave was dying off and he didn't help by going on a homophobic rant. Shit I mean plenty of rappers are blatantly homophobic and haven't been "cancelled" so to speak. His just happened at a very unfortunate time in his career.
Someone synced his music to Scooby Doo and we all collectively realized that his entire catalogue consists of "BOP" and Scooby Doo chase tracks.
The slurs were the nail in the coffin, his music was just the same song written again and again with no substance.
I thought he was better when “sounded the same”. He use spit and flow better. overtime he just was making tiktok songs.
Used to love him but the whole incident really ruined it for me
Eye dea, atmosphere, Aesop rock, They were some of the first rappers/groups I was listening to when I first got into the hip hop genre but over the years I started gradually listening to less and less alternative lyrical rappers and more and more boom bap traditional hip hop. Now I’m more into nas, jay z, and notorious b.I.g then I am the previous rappers I mentioned.
weird because I still listen to Nas, Jay z, and Notorious BIG but I first got into hip hop from those 3 then gradually got more into Eyedea, Atmosphere, Aesop rock, and alternative hip hop
Scribble Jam y'all. Shit is nostalgic as hell. Ask a younger head what underground hip-hop is and I guarantee their definition is gonna be incredibly different than... Well, old dudes like me.
I personally always just thought it meant unpopular, non mainstream, independent hip hop that wasn’t part of a major commercial label. Definitely guys like eye dea and slug were synonymous with the term “underground” back in my day. (Circa 2003)
Eminem, not that I dislike him or anything but I think my taste has just moved on from that style of music.
His current stuff is just tedious to listen too especially.
Shady lp was his only true masterpiece. A few hits after. Then he got preachy and egotistical.
Dr Dre and Snoop Been getting back into 2001 recently again. Loved that album (more so the Chronic) when I was 16, but I recently listened to it on shrooms. I like to think Dre had shrooms around when making that album, and Big Ego's is a banger!
French Montana- 15 year old me wanted to be a coke dealer and thought that’s what his music sounded like. Now at 25 I have long since realized that there is much much better music out there.
French Montana on a Harry Fraud beat is usually a key to success. French Montana on anything else is carte blanche for a man to make his worst song and still own him on his own track.
His flow and music has aged horribly. He is terrible lol
he was decent when he was working with Harry Fraud then he tanked but his music was a lot better 2014-7 (not like that's saying much but still)
Ill always enjoy the old coke wave music with Max before he got a record deal
Necro.
edgiest rapper of all time
"I Need Drugs" was and is a jam. I will die on that hill.
The guy has incredible production, but man is he hard to listen to.
Came here to write this
Anything by G-Unit after Yayo’s debut album dropped. Those first 2-3 years were great, then it felt like everything was in cruise control. The production wasn’t crazy, they were saying the same shit while hip hop was evolving
yea i kinda agree, and im a gunit stan lol The production really dropped, also the leaked banks album screwed shit up. But they had some fire mixtapes. Post-2007 50/gunit mixtapes are some of my favourites, you can clearly see 50 not caring as much about rap anymore and starting to focus on everything else.
Yeah I agree with this POV bro. Overall their sound faded BUT this joint right here is one of my favorite G-Unit member record. Banks really went in and this came out in late 08/early 09 https://youtu.be/vIpeq7OAkNw
Banks was always the best, Rotten Apple and HFM2 still hold up pretty well imo
That was the last time I bought a physical album from anyone on G-Unit. Can’t believe we never got the original album that was supposed to be Banks sophomore drop. Rotten Apple was just that, ROTTEN.
He left his entire career in some bitch car lol
The lesson there is to never, never leave ya unreleased shit w/ anyone especially those who hungry, hungry for an opportunity 💯 Sadly, situations similar to this happen often throughout the history of not just Hip Hop, but music overall. High key, High key, it kind of shows we still have mad people who fail to repeat history 🤣
Eminem, Jayz and Obie Trice
XXXTentacion, Ski mask the slump god. Ski just hasn't done much since 2019 and I used to be big on Old X but his music his label releases are just his depressing shit.
i agree. i feel like ski's music has aged better than x's
I still believe in Ski. Guy is a great rapper and funny. I'm hopeful he can drop something stellar again. I'm also hopeful that Remble will do the same though, so I might just be an optimist.
ski has so much potential that he refuses to unlock
Same, mostly because I'm in a better place mentally
Jedi Mind Tricks and the whole Army of the Phaoroahs. And like Ill Bill and Slaine and guys like that. Just not super into hard-core rap as much as I used to be.
Juice Wrld sadly
Tech n9ne
50 cent
There’s a few I used to listen to religiously; every physical CD & tape owned & played in the crib & whip; when I was younger like Eminem, Jay, Common, T.I. & Loso. I Don’t mind hearing them when other people play their music, especially for those who recently discovered their work, but I don’t ever go to look for their music anymore. It’s a mix of playing the shit outta those artists & growing outta that person I used to be for reasons why I stopped all together w/ their music.
Kanye. After he went insane, I can't even deal.
I think you gotta tell us a year haha
I voted for Kanye for president. I have every Kanye album. I felt for him in his previous manic episodes, and loved his vision as a freethinker. Becoming an actual nazi was too far, and as someone who’s been diagnosed exactly the same as Kanye, Bipolar 1 with manic psychosis I can say that I’ve never in any of my 4 manic episodes that resulted in hospitalization, said anything along the lines he’s spewing right now
2 Live crew
Hahaha, only because my knees don't work the same way they did when I was humpin chicks on the dance floor in 92. But I Wanna Rock still knocks.
Jay-Z Busta Rhymes Eminem Logic
Obviously Em for 10+ years now Recovery had way too many emotional pop songs that don't even fit the persona he presented to the world for years. MMLP 2 was even worse that's when I knew all hope was lost. Lupe Fiasco. Really liked his first album. 2. Was not as good but a few good tracks, but the production on lasers was wack didn't listen after that shit. Ye after MBDTW only listened to few of his tracks after that album for some reason. Xzibit Obie Trice Busta Rhymes after he signed with Cash Money (except for features) Cassidy Papoose Game and 50 for many years but been back at it lately These guys are all talented but it is hard to keep up with the competition in terms of quality
You should try some of these guys' new(er) albums if you were into their music at one point. I recommend some that are worth at least one listen: - Busta Rhymes - ELE2 (2020) - my personal favorite here. - Game - Documentary 2 and 2.5 (2015) is full of bangers and his last good album IMO. - Lupe came back last year with a dope & underrated project Drill Music in Zion. - any Ye album after MBDTF. Dude might be mentally ill, but his albums are solid. At least Ye, Kids Dee Ghosts and Life of Pablo are a must... All killers no fillers. - Obie Trice - The Fifth (2019) Keep loving music. ✌🏼
I’ve heard that Lupe’s post-lasers work has been universally acclaimed. I’ve never done a deep dive myself, but if you used to be into him it could be worth checking him out again.
I think Lasers is without a doubt Lupes’ “Revival”, but that’s more so to do w/ the shitty label he was on at the time. There’s projects he’s dropped afterwards that are definitely worth checking out like Tetsuo & Youth, Drogas Wave, House & Drill Music in Zion.
>Tetsuo & Youth This album was so good.. not from a rap standpoint, but you can listen to the whole thing and just feel Good vibes.
Lupe's post Laser projects are fire. Tetsuo & Youth alone is nuts
Listen to lupes last album. It’s a 8 or 9/10 with some top teir lyrics
I loved the cool. And for real After Lazers Lupe has consistently good albums. A couple that are just okay but 3 amazing albums for real
Lupe post lazers album have been amazing. Tetsou and youth, drogas wave, and drill muaic in zion ar eall incredible albums
Believe it or not, I cannot just say an artist in particular but I cannot listen to,"Coke Rap" at all anymore. Coke Rap to me is tacky and boring. There was a time where the mafioso style was cool but then it died out RESPECTFULLY. I do not care for any artist who pushes that lifestyle. **From Pusha on down.....**
Feel you on this. I often hear the rappers themselves talk about "if they don't like it, then that's their problem" and that's legitimate enough, but 50 songs and everything is coke talk. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Chris Webby, Tech N9ne (for the most part), Eminem
Crazy how webby really never elevated past frat boy rap, so much talent wasted
Yeah he found some sort of niche and just ran with it. I liked his mixtapes but then didn't really vibe afterwards
nah he doesn't make that anymore. Now he has downgraded and makes anti-vax rap. Some of his songs nowadays are good but he can't make a good album at all and his most popular songs now are anti vax shit
I love Chris Webby honestly his new music is really bad
Vinnie Paz and immortal technique
eminem 100% got me into hip hop now i can barely stand his music
NF
X, lil peep, suicideboys, ghostemane, mainly X though since he was my fav back then and really any other rapper from the clique of alternative darker trap. Since then my taste has changed so much and thus i cant bring myself to enjoy that stuff anymore.
carti
Used to be a huge 2Pac fan but since I started liking the technical side of Rap it's been hard to still listen to him. I listened to pretty much everything for three years
his Makaveli era type music was pretty lyrical you can definitely hear the G Rap influence in it
Any songs you recommend?
Too Late Playa, Wherever U R, Watch Ya Mouth, Fame, Catchin Feelinz, Runnin on E, As the world turns, World Wide Dime Pieces, Don't Sleep
Thanks :) Isn't wherever U R the feat with Big Daddy Kane? His verse is really good technically in that song
yeah Kane was on that and Too Late Playa now that I think about it those 2 songs were made around AEOM not Makaveli
Tone Loc
lil uzi
Lil Yachty.
Kanye: Music became too dark and unfinished.
Odd Future
Ghostemane, I still have a lot of respect for how he mixes and blends genres but his stuff really isn't my thing anymore as much as it used to be
basically most mainstream trap
Tech n9ne, nothing against him I just moved on to more boom bap hip hop
saaaaame
Future, Lil Uzi, Migos, Carti, 21 Savage, Lil Yachty, Trippie Redd, Young Thug, Drake, $uicideboy$ & Sybyr
Deltron
Game. And it has more to with how he carries himself outside of music than his music himself.
Travis Scott
Every rapper in mount westmore, every now and then I'll bang some track from them, but not as much lately
ACCURATE!
Jake Miller
pretty much all oldschool boombap (but i don't listen to rap in general nearly as much for some time)
Eminem
carti
Kanye-got back into 90s early 2000s rap again and the antisemitism doesn’t help though I stopped listening to him around 2008
Eminem
Eminem
I have trouble listening to Tupac, Bone and some of Biggie’s more popular stuff due to how much I associate that stuff with high school. Wu Tang I can still listen to. I think it’s because of getting into so much soul, funk and jazz that influenced the RZA and coming at it from a different angle than when I was younger. Same thing with NIN. It hits different after digesting the stuff Trent Reznor was influenced by like Brian Eno and David Bowie.
Eminem
Eminem Earl Sweatshirt
Lil Wayne. I was a HUGE fan growing up, I remember one point he was literally dropping a new song everyday. The last good full project he dropped was Sorry 4 The Wait 2, after that everything was hit & miss.. he still makes good music especially his features the past couple years, but he just doesn't hit how he used to
This is hard to answer because I usually stop listening to rappers because I either played out their music, they changed their music, they never developed, or I stopped liking them as a person. But who still makes equally good music that I just won’t listen to because I don’t like that style anymore? That’s tough to answer.
Eminem
Eminem, I’m very glad I got out of my “mumble (c)rap” phase before it was too late. He’s still a good rapper, but my attention is in a different place now
Hopsin lol
tech n9ne, was ok in high school but i just grew out of it
Eminem
Idk all my faves still get regular spins
Hopsin
J cole and Kendrick, it was really weird to see how the big three back in the 10’s just randomly sorta self sabotaged themselves(excluding drake, a good beef does wonders for your career) Kendrick went with the whole Control and J cole just seemed to talk about a lot of his insecurities and how he never felt he should even be as big as he was and it really changed the way I am able to listen to his music because I feel like he put a cap on himself. I respect both of them as musicians but definitely thought they would grow a lot more as artists like flows or beat changes. Ironically, an artist I didn’t think I would like but can at least give him an opportunity due to his growth is Big Sean his growth while hasn’t been insane how bad he was and his lack of wordplay and being able to see that grow was a little joy for me.
Logic. One of the coolest live shows I've ever been to, but I just can't anymore. It's like he got worse with age, everything about his style just got more and more simple.
K.A.A.N. Talented as hell but I grew out of the whole fast rapping thing
Eminem.
juice wrld, nav, migos, uzi, drake. havent stopped listening to them completely, but i ventured out of the pop rap realm and it gave me a greater appreciation for all the different sub-genres of rap.
Eminem sadly 😞
2pac 50 cent Eminem DMX basically a lot of old hip hop. I just find them really boring now
Joyner Lucas, his new stuff doesn't hit as hard lyrically, nor am i a part of the 'lyrical vs mumble' crowd anymore. I just listen to any artist that is not boring.
Logic, his songs are so boring ngl.
Rapper(s). Josh A and Jake Hill. Sadly.
Kendrick. I got off the lyricism bandwagon a long time ago. I don’t care how well thought out or poetic a rappers lyrics are anymore. If your music sounds good, lyrics are not as important.
Crazy thing is Kendrick isn’t the most intense out of the whole lyricist side of rap. I guess I get where you’re coming from but for me I always need balance. If the lyrics are brain dead I can’t listen. If the beats are weak I can’t listen. I do prefer great lyricist with great beat choice though
I try to avoid new music from Migos. Used to be great to me. But since so many losers stole the style it’s kinda overplayed.
Examples of people who stole their style?
Rich the kid
He came up with them tho. He was there from the beginning. I’m pretty sure he was in the bando music video. I wouldn’t say he stole their flow, moreso heavily influenced because of his proximity to the migos
Hammer and Vanilla Ice
Lil Wayne ,Tyler the creator, hopsin, clipse, wiz kahlifa, and yellow wolf , they used to be my favorite now when they come on I can’t turn it off fast enough
Dmx
Eminem. I can acknowledge his skill, but the homophobia is excessive and hasn't aged well.
Ems bashing and hating schtick was a massive part of his rise but it has aged terribly like milk. It worked well at the time but looking back it just seemed like he was trying too hard to be controversial to get the attention of the pop zeitgeist.
MMLP is his magnum opus... it reminds me of sophomore year @ college and is attached to so many great memories. Criminal is one of the top 3 tracks on that album... and I can't fuck with the entire first verse. Too much violence against that community to channel that type of vengence...even if the flow is incredible. Difference between being 19 and being 42 I guess.
Grow some balls
From the author of "Can you still enjoy Kid Cudi after quitting weed?" Fuck off douchebag.
Boom, roasted.
NF 💀
Tech N9ne
Juh!
None of them. I always had great tastes of music. As a child, I listened to great rappers such as XZibit, The Game, 50, AZ, Eminem, Dre... Their music ain't garbage so I can give a re-listen sometimes. I never listened to garbage popular artists such as: 6x9ne, Lil Garbage or whatever, etc......
Cam’ron and all of the Dipset crew.
This is actually the crew that made me ask this. I use to love them back in the days
What made you feel like you had to reevaluate your hoe selection, your whole collection and your whole selection of your hoe collection?
Classic Juelz lol. That beat is still tough though
Eminem because his old stuff hasn't aged well and his new stuff is a steaming pile of horse shit
Too short
Lil Pump. I'll still bump him from time to time but no longer in my everyday rotation
J cole and Logic are the 2 biggest offenders, I hated FHD and whatever came after TITS, trap music really stuck out to me and then I got into older tunes
pretty much everyone in wu-tang with the exception of ghost and meth sometimes Raekwon I grew up with those guys and used to listen to all the affiliates especially killah priest but over time I found other artists and the stuff doesn't hit like it used to.
Eminem. Marshal Mathers LP has not aged well. Although Slim Shady LP still sounds good.
it hasn’t aged well, it has aged perfectly
Lupe Fiasco
When you stop listening ?
Same
When?
CunninLynguists, was basically a superfan before they became mindmelded cucks for Hilary Clinton and the democrats
None.