Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

This album may be Drakes last opportunity to keep his “crown” so to speak. If he drops the ball with this one….

There is no crown no more

lol he and kendrick were the last artists to have that type of “top rapper(s) in the game” feel and that ended around Story of Adidon + Scorpion being mid back to back along wit new dudes like Travis and The Baby’s reaching new heights + Kendricks absence

It seems like Kendrick is finna Wayne > Drake Baby Keem tho

IMO Drake been putting out lukewarm **** since Views…
 
Yeah I don't see a "crown" or a "top guy" from this next wave that can literally shift culture (for better or worse) the way a Jay or Drake did. Like I can't see ****** clamoring for the Lil Baby verse as a career boost. I don't know if the way music is digested these days even allows for that. I think we'll see multiple "the guy(s)" for their particular lanes...but none that transcends all of them at once.
 
Yeah I don't see a "crown" or a "top guy" from this next wave that can literally shift culture (for better or worse) the way a Jay or Drake did. Like I can't see ****** clamoring for the Lil Baby verse as a career boost. I don't know if the way music is digested these days even allows for that. I think we'll see multiple "the guy(s)" for their particular lanes...but none that transcends all of them at once.
Been saying this for a while.
 
There is no crown no more

lol he and kendrick were the last artists to have that type of “top rapper(s) in the game” feel and that ended around Story of Adidon + Scorpion being mid back to back along wit new dudes like Travis and The Baby’s reaching new heights + Kendricks absence

It seems like Kendrick is finna Wayne > Drake Baby Keem tho

IMO Drake been putting out lukewarm **** since Views…
I don't see any superstars of that caliber on the horizon, the top guys from the new school don't have the same hold.

Drake's run won't be topped. Even in his late years when people in here are saying he fell off he had 2018 run with God's Plan, Look Alive, Sicko Mode, In my Feelings, Nonstop and took over an entire year. The most desired feature for any act is still Drake, and he still smoked recent looks on Migos, Lemon Pepper, and Seeing Green for example.

The young artists who had some promise to take the lane versatility wise passed away,. XXX, Juice Wrld, maybe Pop Smoke. I don't think Lil Baby has enough crossover appeal to do it.
 
I don't see any superstars of that caliber on the horizon, the top guys from the new school don't have the same hold.

Drake's run won't be topped. Even in his late years when people in here are saying he fell off he had 2018 run with God's Plan, Look Alive, Sicko Mode, In my Feelings, Nonstop and took over an entire year. The most desired feature for any act is still Drake, and he still smoked recent looks on Migos, Lemon Pepper, and Seeing Green for example.

The young artists who had some promise to take the lane versatility wise passed away,. XXX, Juice Wrld, maybe Pop Smoke. I don't think Lil Baby has enough crossover appeal to do it.

Baby better than them xxx, juice wrld and pop smoke. Them dudes wasn’t versatile at all. They made emo festival music.

Baby is traditional and just better.

Kodak, lil baby and NBA are the guys. NBA and Kodak not even 25 y/o yet
 
There’s no need for the “everyday, ordinary guy” type rapper anymore. This isnt the 90s or 2000s where gangster rap was the predominant style.

Chance, Kyle, Drake, Kanye etc types are commonplace nowadays. You don’t necessarily need some street rep nowadays with al this snitching being acceptable nowadays.

We got rappers making tik toks bruh.


We live in a completely different type of world than 2004 and 2009 when Kanye and drake emerged.
 
When he get in that introspective bag….outstanding. This a sleeper from that tape to. Perfect way to close out



“Your attitude displaying jealousy, my doggy”!!


This mixtape is what stopped me from being critical of ol’ 5 points swag siphoning future.


Dude stopped dumbing himself down finally
 
Baby better than them xxx, juice wrld and pop smoke. Them dudes wasn’t versatile at all. They made emo festival music.

Baby is traditional and just better.

Kodak, lil baby and NBA are the guys. NBA and Kodak not even 25 y/o yet
XXX and Juice were extremely versatile. XXX had vocals, bars, pop songs, trap songs. He even did a track in Spanish. Not to mention he had the cultural influence that a Kodak or Baby doesn't quite have. People were killing themselves when he died, and he was only 20,21.

25 and 7 years in is already old, by 25 Kendrick Drake, Wayne, etc were already on top of the world.
 
There’s no need for the “everyday, ordinary guy” type rapper anymore. This isnt the 90s or 2000s where gangster rap was the predominant style.

Chance, Kyle, Drake, Kanye etc types are commonplace nowadays. You don’t necessarily need some street rep nowadays with al this snitching being acceptable nowadays.

We got rappers making tik toks bruh.


We live in a completely different type of world than 2004 and 2009 when Kanye and drake emerged.

Please name some other than Larry June (and maybe he doesn’t even fit that label; I rarely listen to him because he seem like knockoff Dom to me)

because it seems like every rapper now has to have some sort of hood appeal, even the artsy geek types….Gambino make lines about guns, drake rapping bout sand colored FNs…Kanye a GD who “knows your big homie who don’t rap” :lol:

every rapper including the “every men” seem like they go out their way to include some Gangsta **** in they raps even if it’s small. Chance for all the hate he gets actually is the the one who does that the least from my vantage point. And then dudes like Kyle and Dicky who ain’t really in the “urban” demographic :lol:
 
XXX and Juice were extremely versatile. XXX had vocals, bars, pop songs, trap songs. He even did a track in Spanish. Not to mention he had the cultural influence that a Kodak or Baby doesn't quite have. People were killing themselves when he died, and he was only 20,21.

25 and 7 years in is already old, by 25 Kendrick Drake, Wayne, etc were already on top of the world.

them dudes was not versatile. All they songs sounded the same. Festival and pop music. That don’t make you good.

Maybe I’m biased because I don’t listen them dudes music. They music ain’t my style
 
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