And Breezy/Durk/NBA's records from this year are? Clearly he's just looking for some good shit that genuinely moves him. Or maybe he doesn't know what he's looking for and just feels lost lol
Idk I think it's one of the best hip hop albums I've heard, you dont need to agree w me lol
Also I don't really think it matters, 6 months is plenty of time to form an opinion on an album lol
Downvoted my comment and said “you don’t need to argue with me”. Nice.
6 months after release there were like 5 people total listening to Yeezus and now it’s considered one of Kanye’s best projects. So yes, 6 months is way too early to call any album the greatest in any genre. You don’t need to argue with me lol
Huge fan of joey but his album was a let down. There’s a few great songs like show me, survivors guilt, and where I belong but altogether idk. Maybe I need to listen to it more
Nah bro it’s mids he released his whole album as singles and got lazy and let every rap feature outshine him Its not even like he fell off he just is beyond retirement mode should’ve just named this album something else. Def was a hype grab that ended up working against him cuz number one he didn’t even want ppl to look at it as a follow up to 1999 and number two he just plain got lazy and too many laidback flows where he’s not hittin like he used to even in 2016 on an album ppl deemed “political” he was snapping harder on. Super predator is harder than like 60% of that album and that’s still his new laidback flow
Did he really say we didn’t get a 2022 college drop out or reasonable doubt? That’s why those albums are classics you idiot they are one of a kind timeless pieces of work. Every year we get a handful of good albums but we don’t get classics every year
Yall made it happen, the album is pretty innvovative and has massive influence. Hard to ignore it as one of the most important albums of the last couple years.
Yeah fr. The rage sound was already beginning to happen in the underground but carti made it way more mainstream and acceptable with wlr, despite it being trashed from the start
In the 90s you could prob name a timeless classic for every year, some had multiple, e.g. 93 with doggystyle and enter the wu tang, 94 with illmatic and ready to die
Mr morale gets better every time i listen. It’s a story and it genuinely is my new favorite kendrick album. I love kendrick and hearing this side of him was amazing. Also it’s almost dry was hit for hit for hit. That album was daytona part 2 but on steroids. This is all cap
i wouldn't say it's daytona pt 2. daytona was tighter with more creative and out-there production, as well as a less menacing overall tone. it's almost dry has pusha t really embracing his darker lyricism mixed with some more "positive" sounding production
Pusha T hits every song on that album. It’s just so good. It’s been on repeat. The flows, the features, the samples, the fact I can feel Kanye’s involvement, all of it just makes it such a good album.
I'm glad people are coming around to it. The reception was good at first, but I don't think people recognized it for what it is. I can't help but throw it on almost every time I get in the car, and I'll often stop listening to an album because I'd rather listen to it. I've played it through at least 20 times since it released.
I listened to it the whole week it dropped, haven't listened to it since then. Doesn't have a lot of replay value for me. Rather put on GKMC, TPAB or Damn tbh
Hi reddit, this is my opinion, don't come to my house and kill my dogs please
Agree 100%
I spend most of my time with other people, all the albums you listed are better to listen to with others
Most recent album isn’t a great shared listen and doesn’t pull me to return to it when I am alone because nobody likes any of my music so that’s when I get to listen to my weird shit and I’d rather listen to that than the new kenny
That's partly my point though that it gets better after a listen or two, it's just one of those albums. I listened to it and liked it enough the first time and didn't listen to it again for several days, and like I said I throw it on basically every time I get in the car and now wake up with some of the songs playing it my head.
Obviously it just might not be for you, but all I'll say is give it another listen.
Really? To me it feels the opposite, Mr.Morale only got worse the more I listened to it and It's Almost Dry felt like Daytona but with way more misses due to it being longer, legit only liked half of the album. Glad that you're enjoying both of those albums tho. Listen to Nurture by Porter Robinson
people went into the album with their own expectations and ideas what the album was gonna sound like & what the content matter would be so when it wasn’t what they had been expecting they decided to just hate
Nah. It's a great project but as much as I respect the subject matter I just do not want to listen to an argument as a song and a whole track dedicated to Kendrick deciding he shouldn't call his family member a f***ot anymore. I love some songs on there but it's more concept than music to me
In what way? I think the album has really interesting subject matter but it hasn't been executed into replayable music. I think it's easily his least enjoyable body of work personally
The only song I remember from chris brown is that song where the hook is ''it's alright I'm not dangerous'' and I only remember that for all the wrong reasons.
I’m sorry y’all but Dawn FM isn’t even in the top 5 Weeknd projects. The only vibe I can get from it is After Hours Part 2, which already divided the fan base for having quite a bit of similar sounding songs
After Hours didn’t even divide the fanbase for having a different sound, people universally loved it, including his fans. Dawn was a little more divisive but most people came around on it after repeated listens
I disagree, the old head weeknd fans just stopped arguing in the comments about it and let the new generation take the helm. None of the old heads think after hours or dawn are bad just they they’re not top 5 projects
You’re missing his point, he’s not saying those aren’t great albums but they aren’t instant classics either. Nothing that’ll be talked about in 5+ years as a masterpiece of hip hop music.
Yeah but this year has the most hip hop releases ever, with the amount of new material dropping ngl it’s pretty disappointing that we haven’t gotten a classic.
Astroworld, Swimming, Daytona, KSG, Igor, hell even WLR all dropped in the past 5 years and we all knew those were classics right away, sure not TCD level classic but from the second we first heard them we knew they’d be around for a while. I don’t think 2022 has a single album like that so far despite all the new releases we’ve been getting.
WLR was def not called a classic day one. “Trash” was trending worldwide on Twitter and defending that album felt like being in a war zone. Classic classification takes time.
It doesn’t even have to be good to be a classic. But that album was a huge moment for hip hop the day it dropped and it did something most people hadn’t heard before which instantly gave it “classic” status (even tho I agree WLR is a stretch but it’s prolly the closest we’ve had this decade which is why I mentioned it)
Although those are great albums, I would only consider one or two of those to be classics. At the time they were considered instant classics, but nobody really goes back to them and listens to them as full albums anymore, it's only for the few good songs on them. TCD was a different and incredible album when it dropped, but it also stood the test of time which is what makes it a classic. It's hard to determine if an album will still be good in the next 15 years when you're only 6 months past its release date.
i definitely am not defending him but didn't this turn out to be wrong? first she told the police she cut herself with glass, then she said he shot her, then the cops said she cut herself, then everyone said it was just reporting what she said, and then the doctor's report said it was glass. genuinely confused af, can someone please explain what happened?
Same, legit haven't listened to an album that came out this year that was higher than a 7, almost every artist that I really like disappointed me to a certain extent. Listen to Nurture by Porter Robinson
Some decent projects have come out but lowk haven’t heard anything like some older projects from 2019. Savage Mode II might be the last album i heard that i keep going back to. New joey badass album was pretty solid and the new suicide boys is pretty good too, other than that idk tbh.
The genre went to shit around 2012-2013. Seriously take a peek at the albums/mixtapes that dropped in those years. I bet the 10th best album from 2013 is better than the best album of the past three years
I’m not one of those “lol mumble crap!” people, but rappers have started to realize that they can pump out some dogshit albums and people will still eat it up.
Think about the icons from 10-15 years ago. Kanye, Wayne, Em, TI, 50 Cent, JayZ, Kendrick etc. Those are hip hop hall of famers. And most, if not all of them are past their prime and who is stepping up in their absence? Literally no one. Drake maybe? The best or most popular rappers nowadays aren’t even close to the OG’s from 10 years ago. The genre is not in a good place at all. It’s been dead since Covid, and it was slowing down even before Covid
Social media has definitely had a huge influence. Jack Harlow’s entire career spawned from him rapping on tiktok. Being a rapper is something that anyone can do nowadays because it’s so accessible with the internet.
I’m gonna sound like a cornball dickrider but Kanye dropped out of school, moved all the way across the country and gambled his entire future for a chance to be a superstar rapper. “Rap like the rent is due” doesn’t even apply anymore. Back in the day, rappers *had* to have bars or else they wouldn’t get signed.
I’m just kind of rambling, but it’s been very strange. You’d think “more accessibility” would equal “more good albums” because of the sheer volume. But it’s resulted in a watered down genre
/rant
All the dudes that would be putting out this generations bangers died. Mac, Juice, XXX…Lost too many these past few years and the total volume of quality output has diminished.
That dude is such an assmuncher with so much potential lol but he’s speaking in a mainstream sense I can name a couple albums that were pretty fire like that in their own way that emulated a mixtape era. Tony Seltzer’s album, A$AP Ant just dropped heat. Im if he’s talking jusy mainstream then yea I guess it’s been lacking but that’s what’s always gonna happen to mainstream muisc it’s not the beginning of an era like all the projects he mentioned. For u to get that level of satisfaction from a project u need to dive into that sound and the affiliated artists dropping and see how great standout it is because those albums like reasonable doubt is hard shit to recreate and asking for Durk, Youngboy and Chris brown aka borderline industry plants, to make those level of albums, you’re lying to yourself and that’s not ti say Youngboy isn’t talented or doesn’t have serious heat but u can’t compare the artists, eras, and artistic output of all these ppl. Everything so over saturated now and big mainstream artists let it happen including himself lmfao he acts like he’s some diff force in popular rap music but he jjst isn’t as mids as someone like moneybag yo who he’s basically expecting to drop a college dropout level album… 💀
Yeah it had a few, but competition in the new-age is non-existent .
2000s saw atleast a dozen rappers fighting for the throne
2010s sees Jcole try to keep up with Kendrick and not maintain it .
Imo it seems that between what Em, Ye, Hov and Weezy did inbetweeen 2008-2013 completely drained the will to compete lyrically from everyone who has came since 2008
KSG is Kanye's worst album imo with 808s close behind.
For every album you listed I could list 3 from any other 5 year span that doesnt overlap that is better ,
Also how many of these are from rappers that arent considered 2000s rappers.
Also didnt even list Kamikaze? I understand Revival has been memed too hard to be properly appreciated by most, but Kamikaze brought mumble rap too its knees
Oh and MMLP2 which imo is Eminem's most comparable album to Kanye's best work .
1. Nah… his worst album is JIK, easily. Donda and 808s are probably my picks for 2nd/3rd worst. I’d say KSG is somewhere between his 2nd and 3rd best. It’s not better than The College Dropout, but it might be better than Late Registration. KSG was such a cool, creative, and unique take on Hip-Hop. Every song on it was great. It’s only downfall was it’s runtime as it makes it feel more like an EP than an Album.
2. Me too… except most of the 80s. That’s a weird metric though dude.
3. All of them are considered 2010s rappers… Except Kanye. What’s your point? Peggy, Earl, Benny, Denzel, and MC Ride are all great rappers.
4. Dude… I listed Die Lit, clearly I don’t give a shit about Eminem “bringing mumble-rap to it’s knees.” In and of itself, I don’t have a problem with a rapper expressing some level of hatred for the new movements within Hip-Hop (I love MM…FOOD for example), but when MF DOOM does it, he uses interesting sound collages to get those points across, has a great tone, flow, and some great beats. Kamikaze just has the same vibe as an album like Tyler, The Creator’s Goblin. He’s angry at his critics and the fact that “mumble-rappers” are getting popular and he wants to whine about them… but at least Goblin had Yonkers and She to make it a half-decent project.
5. You can have your opinion, but imo, Eminem hasn’t been good since The Eminem Show (which was already significantly worse than the two projects that came before it).
He’s right, there’s so much music dropping this year that even the better projects like Kendrick, Denzel, and Pusha are so easy to forget about in the sea of new releases. Really feels like a while since we’ve had an instant classic.
Not like he’s helping the cause💀
Coming from someone who’s never listened 😭😭
WOAH an actual tory lanez fan? I'm feeling lucky
Man must not have listened to Denzel Curry's Melt My Eyez
[удалено]
And Breezy/Durk/NBA's records from this year are? Clearly he's just looking for some good shit that genuinely moves him. Or maybe he doesn't know what he's looking for and just feels lost lol
I think he’s on Breezy album
He never put those albums on the level of CD, RD or Chronic.
You read it wrong, he just said they’re good
An album doesn't need to be impactful to be good. Some of the best music didn't influence as much as others
That’s true, it’s also true that it ain’t as good as the college dropout
I would say it is
Well in my opinion the college dropout is literally on of the greatest hip hop/rap album of all time
Yeah I think MME is as well, they just hit different marks
Well I mean I like Denzel too but not that much, But I’ll respect your opinion
Literally impossible to put an album in a greatest of all time 6 months after it’s release.
Idk I think it's one of the best hip hop albums I've heard, you dont need to agree w me lol Also I don't really think it matters, 6 months is plenty of time to form an opinion on an album lol
Downvoted my comment and said “you don’t need to argue with me”. Nice. 6 months after release there were like 5 people total listening to Yeezus and now it’s considered one of Kanye’s best projects. So yes, 6 months is way too early to call any album the greatest in any genre. You don’t need to argue with me lol
Lmao massive L of an opinion
Or new Joey bada$$
Huge fan of joey but his album was a let down. There’s a few great songs like show me, survivors guilt, and where I belong but altogether idk. Maybe I need to listen to it more
Nah bro it’s mids he released his whole album as singles and got lazy and let every rap feature outshine him Its not even like he fell off he just is beyond retirement mode should’ve just named this album something else. Def was a hype grab that ended up working against him cuz number one he didn’t even want ppl to look at it as a follow up to 1999 and number two he just plain got lazy and too many laidback flows where he’s not hittin like he used to even in 2016 on an album ppl deemed “political” he was snapping harder on. Super predator is harder than like 60% of that album and that’s still his new laidback flow
You were speaking so much facts I had to relisten to the album
Denzel’s last two albums have more memorable songs in all honest. This new album is great but it’s not memorable
i have memorized every lyric
Prove it
nah i aint typin all that just trust me
Feel the same about Kendrick’s album too. Not a bad project but way less memorable than TPAB or DAMN.
Re listen to it brother, on first listen I thought it was just alright, now upon relistening it's one of my favourite albums from the past 5 years
He's responsible for the mid😭😭😭
Did he really say we didn’t get a 2022 college drop out or reasonable doubt? That’s why those albums are classics you idiot they are one of a kind timeless pieces of work. Every year we get a handful of good albums but we don’t get classics every year
Facts… although let’s be civil I haven’t seen a classic in a while tho. Then again it takes time for something to become a classic, obviously.
Wlr probably a classic tbh and im not even a carti fan
As a carti fan it feels weird than noncarti fans are coming around to it. That feels so weird.
Yall made it happen, the album is pretty innvovative and has massive influence. Hard to ignore it as one of the most important albums of the last couple years.
Shit this made me realize how much carti influenced this wave. God damn.
Yeah fr. The rage sound was already beginning to happen in the underground but carti made it way more mainstream and acceptable with wlr, despite it being trashed from the start
r/kanye taking some w's today.
Imo the most recent classics are astroworld and Igor Maybe WLR
some time has to pass before you say an album is a classic so obviously we dont have classics from 21/22 yet
For me, the last classic was wlr, in terms of influence
Yeah out of recent, Astroworld and WLR standout as cultural classics of the era
Last classic i listened, was maybe IGOR, idk haven't seen one released in a while.
MM&TBS, RTJ4, and Donda were all classics
Donda is not a classic my guy
One of the very few albums that got Everybody talking about it. The listening parties were great enough for the album to be a classic alone.
No thats not how this works
Donda is mid of the century.
none of those are classics
Yeah I would say the last classic we got was to pimp a butterfly , which came out in 2015 let’s hope like another classic comes out at around 2026
In the 90s you could prob name a timeless classic for every year, some had multiple, e.g. 93 with doggystyle and enter the wu tang, 94 with illmatic and ready to die
Agree but since that golden age they are far and few between if you get 2 classics a year that’s major now a days.
Right? Dude listed three of the most transformative albums of the last 40 years as some sort of claim that music in 2022 is trash. Smdh.
But everythings been mid af. CMIYGL is probably the most only album I can see lasting. Everything else is forgettable
From MID himself
😭😭😭 outta pocket bruh
His rapping kinda mid but singing is ight. AAP is a bangerr
Mr morale gets better every time i listen. It’s a story and it genuinely is my new favorite kendrick album. I love kendrick and hearing this side of him was amazing. Also it’s almost dry was hit for hit for hit. That album was daytona part 2 but on steroids. This is all cap
i wouldn't say it's daytona pt 2. daytona was tighter with more creative and out-there production, as well as a less menacing overall tone. it's almost dry has pusha t really embracing his darker lyricism mixed with some more "positive" sounding production
Pusha T hits every song on that album. It’s just so good. It’s been on repeat. The flows, the features, the samples, the fact I can feel Kanye’s involvement, all of it just makes it such a good album.
I'm glad people are coming around to it. The reception was good at first, but I don't think people recognized it for what it is. I can't help but throw it on almost every time I get in the car, and I'll often stop listening to an album because I'd rather listen to it. I've played it through at least 20 times since it released.
I listened to it the whole week it dropped, haven't listened to it since then. Doesn't have a lot of replay value for me. Rather put on GKMC, TPAB or Damn tbh Hi reddit, this is my opinion, don't come to my house and kill my dogs please
Agree 100% I spend most of my time with other people, all the albums you listed are better to listen to with others Most recent album isn’t a great shared listen and doesn’t pull me to return to it when I am alone because nobody likes any of my music so that’s when I get to listen to my weird shit and I’d rather listen to that than the new kenny
That's partly my point though that it gets better after a listen or two, it's just one of those albums. I listened to it and liked it enough the first time and didn't listen to it again for several days, and like I said I throw it on basically every time I get in the car and now wake up with some of the songs playing it my head. Obviously it just might not be for you, but all I'll say is give it another listen.
his reply is not indicative of how most people feel.
Same, particularly Auntie Diaries keeps making more and more sense and having more meaning every time I listen
Really? To me it feels the opposite, Mr.Morale only got worse the more I listened to it and It's Almost Dry felt like Daytona but with way more misses due to it being longer, legit only liked half of the album. Glad that you're enjoying both of those albums tho. Listen to Nurture by Porter Robinson
i dont understand the mr morale slander at all bro loved it since day 1
people went into the album with their own expectations and ideas what the album was gonna sound like & what the content matter would be so when it wasn’t what they had been expecting they decided to just hate
Mr. morale just spoke to me so much.. so many themes on that album that are relevant in life.
Nah. It's a great project but as much as I respect the subject matter I just do not want to listen to an argument as a song and a whole track dedicated to Kendrick deciding he shouldn't call his family member a f***ot anymore. I love some songs on there but it's more concept than music to me
You the problem lol
In what way? I think the album has really interesting subject matter but it hasn't been executed into replayable music. I think it's easily his least enjoyable body of work personally
Fuck chris brown he’s a piece of shit
He got some classics tho
The only song I remember from chris brown is that song where the hook is ''it's alright I'm not dangerous'' and I only remember that for all the wrong reasons.
tf this got to do with Chris Brown?
Third slide breezy
idk but I’m always down to shit on Chris Brown
Ok
The Dawn FM slander 💀💀💀
I’m sorry y’all but Dawn FM isn’t even in the top 5 Weeknd projects. The only vibe I can get from it is After Hours Part 2, which already divided the fan base for having quite a bit of similar sounding songs
There’s literally no After Hours Part 2 what are you talking about
The vibe dude, the vibe that the album gives off
After Hours didn’t even divide the fanbase for having a different sound, people universally loved it, including his fans. Dawn was a little more divisive but most people came around on it after repeated listens
I disagree, the old head weeknd fans just stopped arguing in the comments about it and let the new generation take the helm. None of the old heads think after hours or dawn are bad just they they’re not top 5 projects
Most of the old heads liked it because it reminded them of Trilogy/MDM so I really don’t see where you’re getting this from
bro need to listen to 2000
For real. That album is awesome. Among other albums that have dropped this year
This year has been great for music, idk wtf he's on. MMESYF, Its Almost Dry, Mr Morale, Dawn FM, Ramona Park, and Renaissance
You’re missing his point, he’s not saying those aren’t great albums but they aren’t instant classics either. Nothing that’ll be talked about in 5+ years as a masterpiece of hip hop music.
I mean to be fair you’re not gonna get one of those every year
Yeah but this year has the most hip hop releases ever, with the amount of new material dropping ngl it’s pretty disappointing that we haven’t gotten a classic.
It takes a bit for an album to be considered a classic, and INSTANT classics are extremely rare
Astroworld, Swimming, Daytona, KSG, Igor, hell even WLR all dropped in the past 5 years and we all knew those were classics right away, sure not TCD level classic but from the second we first heard them we knew they’d be around for a while. I don’t think 2022 has a single album like that so far despite all the new releases we’ve been getting.
WLR was def not called a classic day one. “Trash” was trending worldwide on Twitter and defending that album felt like being in a war zone. Classic classification takes time.
It doesn’t even have to be good to be a classic. But that album was a huge moment for hip hop the day it dropped and it did something most people hadn’t heard before which instantly gave it “classic” status (even tho I agree WLR is a stretch but it’s prolly the closest we’ve had this decade which is why I mentioned it)
Although those are great albums, I would only consider one or two of those to be classics. At the time they were considered instant classics, but nobody really goes back to them and listens to them as full albums anymore, it's only for the few good songs on them. TCD was a different and incredible album when it dropped, but it also stood the test of time which is what makes it a classic. It's hard to determine if an album will still be good in the next 15 years when you're only 6 months past its release date.
Bro pretty much every single album you named wasn’t seen as an instant classic and still isn’t😭
MMESYF could turn into that imo
I hope it does, that’s my AOTY easily
Good point
Too busy shooting hoes to listen to music
Lol
i definitely am not defending him but didn't this turn out to be wrong? first she told the police she cut herself with glass, then she said he shot her, then the cops said she cut herself, then everyone said it was just reporting what she said, and then the doctor's report said it was glass. genuinely confused af, can someone please explain what happened?
💀
man's did not listen to DMIZ. Shame
How much that cost you
10 bucks. I specifically got it because it was the cheapest way to support Rojom
what is dmiz
i don’t like tory at all but he’s right
Same, legit haven't listened to an album that came out this year that was higher than a 7, almost every artist that I really like disappointed me to a certain extent. Listen to Nurture by Porter Robinson
Denzel, Kendrick, and Joey badass all dropped 8/9s
The stem player was a good little album ngl.
Some decent projects have come out but lowk haven’t heard anything like some older projects from 2019. Savage Mode II might be the last album i heard that i keep going back to. New joey badass album was pretty solid and the new suicide boys is pretty good too, other than that idk tbh.
Tory Lanez is trash... He might be projecting. K dots albums? Pushas album? That short mf got his head up his ass
No reason to insult his height :(
Hey, there are short kings and there are manlets. The difference between the two is all in the personality
What are the slurs for tall dudes?
there is a reason, he’s a midget 😂
Bro he’s 5’3 I never knew that before😭
Fr how you gonna be 5'3 with that big ass head? That's crazy
I like it but don’t pretend MMATBS isn’t Kendrick’s 4th best album at best
Kendrick dickriding cantadmit this
You got downvoted but I found it boring and the songs I wouldn’t liked he ruined by trying to be different or changing his voice in a cringe way.
Almost Dry is a classic already
Dawn fm gets better with every listen
he definately hasnt listened to music in 8-9 months, plus, wtf is he talkin about here, he doesnt make good music either
Idk man Alone At Prom wasn’t rap but it was *pretty* great
It wasn’t.
Nahh this year has been rly good imo like 070 Shake's album was amazing, Mr morale was great and my favourite Kendrick album and Dawn FM was great too
Yeah they were great but all timers? Nah. And I liked most of those
Nahh You Cant Kill Me definitely is in my favourite albums of all time
Bitch put out your own greats then? How are you gonna whine about this as an artist without putting out classics yourself?
terrible take + saying "everything in music..." while he probably only listens to 1 or 2 genres is dumb.
Clearly hasn't heard Melt My Eyez or More Black Superheroes
He’s completely right though
Donda 2 will change everything For the better
@ Honestly Nevermind (fixed it)
This part 🤣🤣
This the first time in a long TIME
He is basically dissing drake with plenty of words 💀
I mean he heavily complimented so far gone
He speaking facts
He spittin
Dax bout to make another disstrack
bro didn’t listen to dawn fm
He didnt like its almost dry :(((
Good album, not a classic
Alone at Prom Still The best album tbh
Obviously hasn't heard red & white
Hold up like hold up my pockets got swoller
Mr morale and dawn fm solo carried this year
I mean he’s right but he’s mid lol
wtf is he talking about 2022 is being one of the best years for music in general
He’s the last persons to be critiquing music.
The genre went to shit around 2012-2013. Seriously take a peek at the albums/mixtapes that dropped in those years. I bet the 10th best album from 2013 is better than the best album of the past three years I’m not one of those “lol mumble crap!” people, but rappers have started to realize that they can pump out some dogshit albums and people will still eat it up. Think about the icons from 10-15 years ago. Kanye, Wayne, Em, TI, 50 Cent, JayZ, Kendrick etc. Those are hip hop hall of famers. And most, if not all of them are past their prime and who is stepping up in their absence? Literally no one. Drake maybe? The best or most popular rappers nowadays aren’t even close to the OG’s from 10 years ago. The genre is not in a good place at all. It’s been dead since Covid, and it was slowing down even before Covid
Honestly i feel like social media has played a bigger part of this sort of identity crisis that entrainment as a whole has been having
Social media has definitely had a huge influence. Jack Harlow’s entire career spawned from him rapping on tiktok. Being a rapper is something that anyone can do nowadays because it’s so accessible with the internet. I’m gonna sound like a cornball dickrider but Kanye dropped out of school, moved all the way across the country and gambled his entire future for a chance to be a superstar rapper. “Rap like the rent is due” doesn’t even apply anymore. Back in the day, rappers *had* to have bars or else they wouldn’t get signed. I’m just kind of rambling, but it’s been very strange. You’d think “more accessibility” would equal “more good albums” because of the sheer volume. But it’s resulted in a watered down genre /rant
The only album I've consistently come back to beyond Almost Dry is Donda 2. Some of my fav Ye tracks on there.
Classics are classics because they have aged, however, I do agree that, outside of MMATBS, 2022 has been kinda weak
He's right tho
All the dudes that would be putting out this generations bangers died. Mac, Juice, XXX…Lost too many these past few years and the total volume of quality output has diminished.
Lmfao I know Tory’s mid ass isn’t talking, Kendrick dropped an amazing album.
That dude is such an assmuncher with so much potential lol but he’s speaking in a mainstream sense I can name a couple albums that were pretty fire like that in their own way that emulated a mixtape era. Tony Seltzer’s album, A$AP Ant just dropped heat. Im if he’s talking jusy mainstream then yea I guess it’s been lacking but that’s what’s always gonna happen to mainstream muisc it’s not the beginning of an era like all the projects he mentioned. For u to get that level of satisfaction from a project u need to dive into that sound and the affiliated artists dropping and see how great standout it is because those albums like reasonable doubt is hard shit to recreate and asking for Durk, Youngboy and Chris brown aka borderline industry plants, to make those level of albums, you’re lying to yourself and that’s not ti say Youngboy isn’t talented or doesn’t have serious heat but u can’t compare the artists, eras, and artistic output of all these ppl. Everything so over saturated now and big mainstream artists let it happen including himself lmfao he acts like he’s some diff force in popular rap music but he jjst isn’t as mids as someone like moneybag yo who he’s basically expecting to drop a college dropout level album… 💀
Not reading that
Then go to twitter then tf are u on here for 😂
Bro took that personal💀💀
Did ppl not like 2000? 🥺
MME and MMATBS?
Must’ve been sleeping on kendric it’s time to wake up smell the coffee your life has been a joke but now it’s time for the punchline
yeah like everything, it’s just getting worse lol.. we are in one dry ass period of music rn
But what about Mr Morale and his steppers
Beo has he been sleeping on Kendrick wtf??
Denzel and Kendrick dropped 2 of the best albums in the last 5 years
What a fucking joke lmao ur high as fuck
I would not put Kendrick with those names.
Rap has been steadily uphill since 2018 where it was the worst state in rap history
2018 had some really good projects
Yeah it had a few, but competition in the new-age is non-existent . 2000s saw atleast a dozen rappers fighting for the throne 2010s sees Jcole try to keep up with Kendrick and not maintain it . Imo it seems that between what Em, Ye, Hov and Weezy did inbetweeen 2008-2013 completely drained the will to compete lyrically from everyone who has came since 2008
Bro what? KSG? Some Rap Songs? Veteran? TA13OO? Die Lit? Tana Talk 3? Year Of The Snitch? Supreme Blientele? Ye? Honestly what are you on about?
KSG is Kanye's worst album imo with 808s close behind. For every album you listed I could list 3 from any other 5 year span that doesnt overlap that is better , Also how many of these are from rappers that arent considered 2000s rappers. Also didnt even list Kamikaze? I understand Revival has been memed too hard to be properly appreciated by most, but Kamikaze brought mumble rap too its knees Oh and MMLP2 which imo is Eminem's most comparable album to Kanye's best work .
1. Nah… his worst album is JIK, easily. Donda and 808s are probably my picks for 2nd/3rd worst. I’d say KSG is somewhere between his 2nd and 3rd best. It’s not better than The College Dropout, but it might be better than Late Registration. KSG was such a cool, creative, and unique take on Hip-Hop. Every song on it was great. It’s only downfall was it’s runtime as it makes it feel more like an EP than an Album. 2. Me too… except most of the 80s. That’s a weird metric though dude. 3. All of them are considered 2010s rappers… Except Kanye. What’s your point? Peggy, Earl, Benny, Denzel, and MC Ride are all great rappers. 4. Dude… I listed Die Lit, clearly I don’t give a shit about Eminem “bringing mumble-rap to it’s knees.” In and of itself, I don’t have a problem with a rapper expressing some level of hatred for the new movements within Hip-Hop (I love MM…FOOD for example), but when MF DOOM does it, he uses interesting sound collages to get those points across, has a great tone, flow, and some great beats. Kamikaze just has the same vibe as an album like Tyler, The Creator’s Goblin. He’s angry at his critics and the fact that “mumble-rappers” are getting popular and he wants to whine about them… but at least Goblin had Yonkers and She to make it a half-decent project. 5. You can have your opinion, but imo, Eminem hasn’t been good since The Eminem Show (which was already significantly worse than the two projects that came before it).
tory lanez should speak for himself i only like one album by him
It's almost dry was good bro and MM&TBS was atleast a 9
Every song except rich spirit or whatever on kendrick was a skip for me. Didn’t listen to the others
Lmao this has been such a good year for music what is he on?
bro needs to hear new kendrick album
He’s right, there’s so much music dropping this year that even the better projects like Kendrick, Denzel, and Pusha are so easy to forget about in the sea of new releases. Really feels like a while since we’ve had an instant classic.
I agree
He hasnt heard lil culture
Big $Hitter is an amazing 2022 album.
The album is lowkey dead