Hip hop doesnt get hype anymore.

Because it sucks so much ass people can't even handle making fun of it. There's so much to criticize it's overwhelming.
 
I have 2 teenagers in high school who are very much into today's rap music. New rap music gets the young people of today hype the way the old golden era rap gets us older guys hype. My 2 teens have admitted that "my music" is better than theirs and they have A LOT of golden era rap in their play lists. Nas, Pun, KG Rap, Jada, Rakim, AZ, WTC, etc. They still rather listen to their stuff.
 
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And I know this one is like 4 years old but I think Joey just turned 20 or 21 and he ghost wrote Rockstar by Post Malone.
 
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Uptown Swinger said:
I have 2 teenagers in high school who are very much into today's rap music. New rap music gets the young people of today hype the way the old golden era rap gets us older guys hype. My 2 teens have admitted that "my music" is better than theirs and they have A LOT of golden era rap in their play lists. Nas, Pun, KG Rap, Jada, Rakim, AZ, WTC, etc. They still rather listen to their stuff.
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This is just how it is. As we get older, our music fades out, becomes classics, new era music sweeps the young crowd and is the current "it" for them.

It just always sucks when things you enjoy are no longer in style, and the new styles/trends/music always seems to be "bad" to us. Such is life.

It is hard to adapt to this new "rap". It is garbage to me. Grew up on Snoop, Dre, West Side Connection, DMX, etc, and would listen to that shit on repeat until I die. None of this new shit even comes close.

Kids today will be stuck on this shit thats out now until they die. Poor fuckers....
 
The new rap is way better than the new metal by a long shot. I grew up listening to both...mostly metal though
 
Sometimes it's difficult to hold onto things you shouldn't hold onto anymore.

Like hits from yesteryear. And that one piece of brillo pad you call hair.

Kid_n_Play_aunties.jpg

#aintgonehurtnobodykaraoke
 
sniper said:
Can you point me in the direction of a contemporary rapper who has a positive, uplifting message? Serious question. I grew up on hip hop and fell out of love the older I've gotten. But I would love to find someone new who's not only talking about the negative aspects of life.
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Agreed. I can't believe some of the shit I used to listen to as a kid. The rappers were basically talking about wholesale slaughter.
 
CL Smoothe was a positive role model during an age of lyrical violence.
 
Secret Agent said:
Sometimes it's difficult to hold onto things you shouldn't hold onto anymore.

Like hits from yesteryear. And that one piece of brillo pad you call hair.

Kid_n_Play_aunties.jpg

#aintgonehurtnobodykaraoke
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Haha, kid and play were the shit when i was in middle school. Played em at the school dances.
 
Johnson said:
Haha, kid and play were the shit when i was in middle school. Played em at the school dances.
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They came out of the closet recently. Play said something like: Kid is the only Kid I want to play with
 
Cool Hand Luke said:
CL Smoothe was a positive role model during an age of lyrical violence.
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Yup - CL was/is very underrated as he hardly never gets mentioned as a great lyricist. There were a bunch of other positive rappers.
 
There's still good boom bap hits if that's the style of rap you prefer. It's just buried deep in the underground unfortunately.

All the garbage just gets pushed to the forefront.
 
Bay Area said:
Agreed. I can't believe some of the shit I used to listen to as a kid. The rappers were basically talking about wholesale slaughter.
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I'm not trying to start a debate - but I'm curious ...
Specifically what rappers that you used to listen to were talking about wholesale slaughter? (NY rappers if possible)
and what you mean by wholesale slaughter? My assumption is you're talking about rappers that talk about killing people/ so called "gangsta" shit? I know you used to like Mobb Deep.
For me it would be M.O.P which is my favorite rap group ever. I love their last album "Street Certified" which dropped in 2014.
Fav solo artist in that category is Kool G Rap.





 
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Hip Hop has always been the black sheep of the music industry. Good hip hop has always been intertwined with 'underground' vs 'mainstream' even till this day. You could say most of the good stuff were underground/semi-underground (at the same time there was bad underground hip hop too) with a smaller percentage of mainstream being dope. Although it's quite funny how as time goes by, some of the mainstream hiphop from the late 90s and early 2000s that was considered 'wack' is now a 'classic' in comparison to the type of hip hop that is put out in the mainstream now.

10 random examples of classic 'underground/semi-underground' hip hop songs, mostly from the 90s.










https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3VyQm4MkhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUi7VnZW6XQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6fmRt6MvU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMoHezlA0a0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCo_lR3Pp0
 
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