Life of a rap fan

my cancerous thread got us to 000. could have been a better thread desu

The production is objectively better. Rakim's flow 30 years later is still more sophisticated than most but Eric B's beats are stuck in time. Album's like Paul's Botique, with brilliant people working in the background, still sound great but the atmosphere provided in contemporary hip hop blows it out of the water. The only reason modern rappers have gotten away with lazy lyrics is due to the producers propping them up.

Well that thing happens in every style.
I am fan of punk...

All you dadhoppers and lewronggeneration kids need to die already. It's because of people like you that hip hop gets held back every time it's trying to innovate.

>Critics want to mention that they miss when hip hop was rappin'
>Motherfucker, if you did, then Killer Mike'd be platinum

17 years old here and looking at both sides. Rap/Hip-Hop changes but you need to stick to the very roots. When I say that I mean, yes, the beat and music itself will change sonically But you still need bars. That is what Rap is supposed to be about, rapping. You need both, not just a beat by itself filled with mumbled shit. There are rappers who stick to this like Kendrick, Joey Bada$$, Danny Brown and many others. Then again just because you have vocabulary, It won't mean you can't be wack. As much as I like Logic's first album, his following albums are very disappointing, especially his sophomore album, since he was spitting bars right and left, but you really can't grasp the concept. It's like basically talking a lot, but not saying anything. Point is, you need the beat just as much as the rapper. Imagine Illmatic without the touch of producers like Q-tip, Large Proffesor, or DJ Premier. Imagine Madvillain without the work of Madlib, Or Dr. Dre's The Chronic with someone else producing.Those are perspectives I take from the right and left. As far as I see the good outweighing the bad, it seems there is more garbage in this newer generation than the last one. But then again I wasn't born in the 80s to grow up during the 90s. I'm pretty sure there were corny or bad rappers during that era like Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer. But we all remember the greats, I'm pretty sure in this era We will forget the Futures, Fetty Waps, and Chief Keifs, because artists that have valueable art will tend to stick to individuals rather than 15 minutes of fame.