Is there even such a thing as a rap/hip hop artist who makes songs that are instrumentally interesting, aren't mumbly or have an annoying voice, and talk about something other than the usual shit rappers are known for talking about, i.e. "the game" or "bitches and hoes and my dick is 10 inches long" or crime, or drugs, or the usual shit that knee-grows are known for rapping about? I really want to give these generas are a fair chance, but most everything I've heard so far hasn't been that great (No, Kanye is not good), and I'm starting to uniroincally become that "only thing I don't like is rap and country" type of guy. Examples of what I would consider good instrumentation would be 2pac's "California Love" or DMX's "Where the Hood at" or Glue70 in general
The first rapper that camed to mind when I read your post: behold Cormega, the god of NYC underground hip-hop youtube.com/watch?v=-P6PjIgube8
Kayden James
my sides
Cameron Carter
>those ricer cars
Alexander Garcia
One thing to understand is that many rappers who praise those things you think are bad are doing it ironically. Kendrick might sound at first like he's talking about gangsta life or Chance might sound like he's talking about drugs or Earl might sound like he's talking about fucking bitches, but each one of them is going for a deeper concept.
Asher Smith
I hear that a lot, and I can appreciate the idea to an extent, but that still doesn't help the fact that I just get sick of hearing the same shit from every single rapper; ironically or not. Not to mention I never can really tell who is trying to be deep in any sense and who isn't
Michael Young
Have you tried MF DOOM? Madvillainy is a pretty good album.
