Hip-hop in the past decade, your opinion?

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Smh at everyone in here using the term “mumble rap” as a pejorative when mumble rappers like Young Thug and 21 Savage have been some of the most important artists to arise in the past 5 years.

I’ve loved hip-hop this decade. Kendrick’s whole discography happened this decade. Kanye released some of his best work with MBDTF, Yeezus, and TLOP (@ me). Future has become one the industry’s most iconic rappers and with good reason. Metro Boomin is quite possibly the greatest producer in the genre ever. Travis Scott somehow managed to release Rodeo. New Tribe Called Quest. This decade’s been good.
 
Koozek said:
LOL

That just shows that you don't know what you're talking about. It's a new golden age for Hip-Hop right now. And no, I'm not going to give you recommendations. You got the whole internet at your disposal, but probably decided to stay in "Only Real Hip-Hop" groups on Facebook where people only share 90's Rap and post memes about Mumble Rap.

The biggest artists in Hip-Hop were Kris Kross and Vanilla Ice at one point in the 90's. Guess 90's Rap sucked too.
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I kinda hate radio rap more than I ever have, especially that triplet flow and unending repetitive gimmick hooks, but otherwise it's in great shape? Like, I honestly believe the greatest to ever do it (Kendrick) is currently making music, and it's a privilege to be around for that. Plus Run the Jewels, Vince Staples, Danny Brown...
 
cancelled my xm radio because i hate new hiphop
my playlist is music from the good old days.
maybe im just getting old lol but cant stand most of these new "rappers"
 
Been listening to hip-hop since 3 Feet High and Rising. Just like previous decades, there's plenty of good and bad, styles are always shifting when young blood and new regions come up. Almost no one who was on top in the 90's or even the 00's sounds vital today.

It's fine to have preferences, but don't act like Hip-hop was born and died in the 90's. This is as bad as people who deify the big 70's classic rock bands and act like nothing else exists. Fuck Stairway to Heaven.
 
Endless trash. This was the decade I stopped listening to hip hop.

What did you like?
Everything Kanye made and Eminem's Relapse album. Travis Barker rock remixes were cool too.

What did you hate?
Everything outside what I just mentioned, SPECIALLY Lil' Wayne and everything it represents. And God hates me, because my favorite band of all time is Limp Bizkit and in 2013 they had him in one of their songs.

What do you like now?
Listened to Kendrick's backstreet freestyle and Alright songs and they were dangerously catchy. Nothing else, I don't listen to hip hop anymore.

What do you hate now?
The same as always, rapping about money, hoes, lazy writing (Started From The Bottom is the quintessential example) and "don't mess with me 'cuz [insert 4 minutes of bullshit]". The instrumentals suck too, that dry hollow beat that now plagues every song (the one in Kendrick's Alright).
 
PaulBizkit said:
Endless trash. This was the decade I stopped listening to hip hop.

What did you like?
Everything Kanye made and Eminem's Relapse album. Travis Barker rock remixes were cool too.

What did you hate?
Everything outside what I just mentioned, SPECIALLY Lil' Wayne and everything it represents. And God hates me, because my favorite band of all time is Limp Bizkit and in 2013 they had him in one of their songs.

What do you like now?
Listened to Kendrick's backstreet freestyle and Alright songs and they were dangerously catchy. Nothing else, I don't listen to hip hop anymore.

What do you hate now?
The same as always, rapping about money, hoes, lazy writing (Started From The Bottom is the quintessential example) and "don't mess with me 'cuz [insert 4 minutes of bullshit]". The instrumentals suck too, that dry hollow beat that now plagues every song (the one in Kendrick's Alright).
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Man it really seems like you’ve listened to about 5 modern hip hop songs and made an opinion based off of that. This type of shit always comes off as so closed minded. There’s so much good stuff out here that if you aren’t finding anything you like... that’s on you my dude, not the current scene.
 
Just as good as the 80's/90's as someone who grew up with that music and grew up through 90's rap.
 
“Hip-hop is garbage now. I’ve listened to the top 3 songs on the radio, and they’re trash”

Saying all rap is more similar now than in the 90s is actually wrong, unless you look at just the radio, but if you’re listening to just radio hits no shit it’s gonna seem “worse”
 
PaulBizkit said:
Endless trash. This was the decade I stopped listening to hip hop.

What did you like?
Everything Kanye made and Eminem's Relapse album. Travis Barker rock remixes were cool too.

What did you hate?
Everything outside what I just mentioned, SPECIALLY Lil' Wayne and everything it represents. And God hates me, because my favorite band of all time is Limp Bizkit and in 2013 they had him in one of their songs.

What do you like now?
Listened to Kendrick's backstreet freestyle and Alright songs and they were dangerously catchy. Nothing else, I don't listen to hip hop anymore.

What do you hate now?
The same as always, rapping about money, hoes, lazy writing (Started From The Bottom is the quintessential example) and "don't mess with me 'cuz [insert 4 minutes of bullshit]". The instrumentals suck too, that dry hollow beat that now plagues every song (the one in Kendrick's Alright).
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This is the whitest post i've read all year.

Fucking limp bizkit and you're trying to shittalk the lyrics of hip hop. Help
 
Same as every other decade. Good stuff out there, great stuff that doesn't get the play it deserves, Kanye still terrible and getting worse.

UK stopped trying to be American and is fully doing it's own thing, to the benefit of everyone. Actually, yeah, decade of grime.
 
OG Shaka Zulu said:
Mainstream/radio rap is just terrible IMO. Its obvious as hell that Black people aren't ultimately the gatekeepers for what gets put on airwaves or else we'd see more socially relevant stuff. There's less variety in acts compared to the 90s and less variety in the messaging. Burn it to the ground, the underground is where its at.
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Need more like A Tribe Called Quest, P.O.S. and The Coup in general.
 
Currently watching the rise of Sammus, so it's not so bad. But I watched more of Lupe's karate videos than listened to his latest album so I'm out of touch with this genre now.
 
RoyaleDuke said:
Garbage except for MF DOOM, but then again he is the only hip-hop or rap artist I can listen to without potentially having a brain embolism from how terrible the music is.
Meh, the whole state of music has been in shambles for decades.
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It's pretty goddamn terrible right now yeah and for a while, agreed. The shit we call music now...it's just beyond me. For example the other day i heard Swang by Rae Sremmurd for the first time, once that one guy starts ''singing'' i couldn't help but burst out in laughter. It's like i was hearing a IcejjFish song, the way that guy used his voice was hilarious but so goddamn awful at the same time.

I try to imagine them in the studio and both of them saying yeah this is pretty damn dope, let's go with this and nobody saying...dude what the goddamned shit is this? But that's just one example. All this mumble rap and the bad usage of autotune(autotune doesn't have to be ear assaultingly bad) is just such a freaking weird phase in hiphop. I wouldn't even call it hiphop anymore what a lot of these folks are doing is straight up garbage.

Years ago these clowns would have been laughed at in the studio and told to go the fuck home. I'm glad there is still plenty of good hiphop, just not a whole lot in the mainstream right now. At the end of the day everybody should just enjoy whatever they want in music, but that doesn't mean i'll understand it. I gave these guys like Young Thug, Migos, Uzi, Yachty and so many more a chance, i listened to several tracks and one...i can barely understand wtf they are saying, two, the little voices they use annoy the shit out of me, and when i do manage to hear wtf they are saying it makes zero sense. Basically only the production is passable i would say.

Hater? One hundred percent yes.

Doesn't mean i hate everything in today's mainstream hiphop though. I can appreciate Kendrick as an artist, i dig Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Jay-Z had a great cd recently, Tech N9ne and other Strange Music artists but i dont understand the appeal of mumble rap at all. But that's ok.
 
Spuck-uk said:
Black Metal vocalists are really high pitched and screechy. A fan of that genre shit-talking Danny Brown for being high pitched is real ironic.
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I mean theyre doing entirely different vocal things but uhh alright. Did i say i hate danny brown? I just dont understand the relevance
 
Inkvoterad said:
I mean theyre doing entirely different vocal things but uhh alright. Did i say i hate danny brown? I just dont understand the relevance
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Don't think too hard on it, not meant as a diss on you at all.

Unrelated, 'The Plug' by Sampa the Great is a fantastic track from this year and deserves more recognition. Female rappers in general need more recognition, but that's not changed a lot in the last decade.
 
PaulBizkit said:
Endless trash. This was the decade I stopped listening to hip hop.

What did you like?
Everything Kanye made and Eminem's Relapse album. Travis Barker rock remixes were cool too.

What did you hate?
Everything outside what I just mentioned, SPECIALLY Lil' Wayne and everything it represents. And God hates me, because my favorite band of all time is Limp Bizkit and in 2013 they had him in one of their songs.

What do you like now?
Listened to Kendrick's backstreet freestyle and Alright songs and they were dangerously catchy. Nothing else, I don't listen to hip hop anymore.

What do you hate now?
The same as always, rapping about money, hoes, lazy writing (Started From The Bottom is the quintessential example) and "don't mess with me 'cuz [insert 4 minutes of bullshit]". The instrumentals suck too, that dry hollow beat that now plagues every song (the one in Kendrick's Alright).
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What did he mean by this? said:
Oldheads should just take their ears off man. If youre over 25 you shouldnt be listening to new music period ever again period
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You should be proud that you might have the worst post in a thread where someone admitted their favorite band is Limp Bizkit. "Oldheads"? 25? Sometimes I feel like GAF is dominated by 15-year-olds.
 
Koozek said:
LOL

That just shows that you don't know what you're talking about. It's a new golden age for Hip-Hop right now. And no, I'm not going to give you recommendations. You got the whole internet at your disposal, but probably decided to stay in "Only Real Hip-Hop" groups on Facebook where people only share 90's Rap and post memes about Mumble Rap.

The biggest artists in Hip-Hop were Kris Kross and Vanilla Ice at one point in the 90's. Guess 90's Rap sucked too.
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Whoomp! (There It Is)
 
Jay Z's latest album, the new Wu Tang album and Royce's tape were some of the only highlights for me this year..and all these guys are 35+

(Been waiting for Nas to drop for years, hopefully next year is the year)


However, this guy Nick Grant is about 27 yrs old (would still be considered an old head by today's kids) I had never heard of him before this song and was thoroughly impressed. He mopped the Floor with Elhzi and Royce, which is not an easy thing to do


https://youtu.be/sf0XHKnmWxk
 
Inkvoterad said:
This is the whitest post i've read all year.

Fucking limp bizkit and you're trying to shittalk the lyrics of hip hop. Help
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The lyrics in mainstream hip hop suck and we all know it. Ok, there are good songs here and there, Kanye is great and Kendrick miles better, but I loved hip hop so much in the past that now it all seems so played out

Limp Bizkit has more to it than its lyrics. In the same way that millions of people prefer The Rolling Stones to hip hop and RS' lyrics are, in the majority, pretty basic
 
Hip-hop is in a new golden age, friends. The genre is better now than it has been at any point in the past 20 or so years. Rappers are the new rock stars and while there are some interesting guitar acts in the "underground", stadium rock is dead.
 
This decade is pretty damn good and I don't even listen to a lot of the mainstream stuff. Last decade was not so great. There are more avenues for talent to be heard these days. Although, it is getting to the point of over saturation, but the cream somehow always rises to the top. There's something for everyone it seems.
 
Is there any other topic filled with more terrible opinions? People who don't listen to hip-hop are judging it based off of 3 songs they've heard on the radio over the last 10 years. SMH.

Also saying "90's rap was the best rap" does not make you a big brain cool guy. Its a cliche and dishonest opinion which only makes it obvious that you don't listen to rap

To answer OP

What did you like?
Starting from the beginning of 10 years ago, this was probably peak mixtape Weezy? Easily my favorite run in all of hip hop history. Kanye has always been solid. Cudi dropped MotM which is a classic IMO. After that there was a period of Waka Flocka that was tough.

Getting to more recent stuff, obv Kendrick has consistently dropped top tier projects. Future was kind of weak at first, but he hit his stride sometime in early 2015 and he was on fire for like 6 projects in a row.

Travis Scotts first couple projects might as well be classics in my book as well. Also, I'm a Young Thug stan, his creativity is an acquired taste, but I'm super into it.


What did you hate?
Towards the end of the Weezy era and before music streaming was monetized, it was clear how desperate rappers were. They were playing it safe and only doing cookie cutter shit.

Drake and J. Cole deserve a lot of credit for steering the game back into a decent direction, because without them we would've been stuck with Weezy-knock off sugary beats and crappy metaphors.

What do you like now?
Lately, I've been checking out more conscious or positive stuff like Saba, Smino, Noname. Also, i've been watching the new generation coming up and I'm really excited to see what they do. They clearly pride themselves in using diverse influences in their music, but I don't think they're there yet.

What do you hate now?
Radio rap has always been super trash, more so nowadays. My problem is that it's been the same 5 big artists for years and years now. I also want the generic trap sound to go away, which it seems like it is.

Would love for someone who actually listens to rap to reply with any thoughts.
 
Koozek said:
LOL

That just shows that you don't know what you're talking about. It's a new golden age for Hip-Hop right now. And no, I'm not going to give you recommendations. You got the whole internet at your disposal, but probably decided to stay in "Only Real Hip-Hop" groups on Facebook where people only share 90's Rap and post memes about Mumble Rap.

The biggest artists in Hip-Hop were Kris Kross and Vanilla Ice at one point in the 90's. Guess 90's Rap sucked too.
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This. Everyone complaining in here about the current state of hip-hop sounds dusty and lazy as hell.

How do y'all claim that hip-hop is garbage in an era where Spotify exists? They give you recommendations based on artists/albums/songs that you listen to and there's an endless amount of playlists available. It's not that hard to find new music from artists that emulate your 90s "golden age" of hip-hop.
 
Furious Styles said:
This. Everyone complaining in here about the current state of hip-hop sounds dusty and lazy as hell.

How do y'all claim that hip-hop is garbage in an era where Spotify exists? They give you recommendations based on artists/albums/songs that you listen to and there's an endless amount of playlists available. It's not that hard to find new music from artists that emulate your 90s "golden age" of hip-hop.
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Really though

How can anyone claim that hip-hop is garbage in an era where the most mainstream and celebrated artist is Kendrick Lamar?
 
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