It is samey, because everybody does the same thing. Add auto-tune to this and you are left with a worthless corpus of shitty rap, hip-hop and also pop music. My hot take is that if you can only appreciate NY State of Mind, I Got a Story To Tell, 1st of The Month, but can't appreciate Back That Azz Up, Crank Dat, and XO TOUR Llif3 then you don't actually appreciate hip-hop. Sure its cool when a song has a multilevel meaning and deep metaphors spread through out the song, but its not a necessity to make a good hip hop song. You keep referring to the bling and crunk era like they are sneers but I would argue that if New Yorkers had gotten their way and got to be the gate keepers of hip hop and you were only allowed to rap in a style like Wu Tang and rappers like Outkast, The Hot Boys, and just the dozens of ATL rappers were not allowed on the air ways that the art form would have gone the way of disco and died. I would argue that they all sound the same when compared to any southern rappers that came after them. >Tribe, wu, west coast gfunk rappers, mobb deep, fu schnickens, onyx, bone thugs, cypress, busta, we're all wildly different.

I don't like J Cole, but he's another one who is liked and respected.

Freddie Gibbs and Big Krit both operate primarily outside the scope of Trap, are very talented, and respected. During that time, and a little before it, you had Blackstar, Common, Dead Prez, and a bunch of other underground acts who were respected - to the point Jay Z name dropped Talib Kweli and Common in the early 2000s. They're talked about like Atmosphere was in 2004. Thats the way most lyrical rappers are treated today. It's all 'white' even if black, nerdy, back packing shit thats not considered part of the 'culture'. >And they're treated the same as Rhymesayers or DefJux rappers, Saul Williams or immortal tech were during the bling and Crunk eras. So I consider him the exception that proves the rule. Kendrick tends to always be the modern exception to every hip hop criticism. >Now who deviates? Danny brown? He's like 40. You lived in a different 90s than I did then. >This isn't true unless you're talking the bling Era of the late 90s. >are still popular MC's and producers who operate outside of Trap.Īnd they're treated the same as Rhymesayers or DefJux rappers, Saul Williams or immortal tech were during the bling and Crunk eras. Now who deviates? Danny brown? He's like 40. Even at the height of g-funk, I could have named 50 at least semi popular rappers who deviated from that style.

Tribe, wu, west coast gfunk rappers, mobb deep, fu schnickens, onyx, bone thugs, cypress, busta, we're all wildly different. This isn't true unless you're talking the bling Era of the late 90s.Īlso, past criticisms existing doesn't invalidate new ones even if there's similarities in the complaint. >This is how people used to talk about Hip Hop in the 90s

Rap song yep nope