I remember it growing on me but I aint spun that album in years

this is such a incoherent perception of music

Then s*** like MBDTF, GKMC, Yeezus, and TPAB dropped and mfs just collectively went "we can't top this s***, lets just make trap, pop rap, and dusty coke rap"

yea man, the world revolves around those 4 albums. Future only made DS2 because he listened to TPAB and knew he "couldn't compete". feels like you're dismissing hip hop as a genre unless its as "creative and genre blending" as those 4 albums, which is what racist cacs do, no?

Just bad take after bad take in here lol

How many variations of this same thread do you guys want to keep on having ? Its been accepted that mainstream hip hop and most genres have declined since the 2010s. There's a lot of reasons for it (streaming, labels, internet)

But one of them is that the fans just became lazy listeners, look at this site. Some of ya will only check out a new artist if they're fed to you by the machine. But how else you expect these great new and creative artist to enter the mainstream if you and others aren't supporting from the bottom

There's was one week where there was a lot of albums pinned at the top, and some users were complaining that it was taking up too much space but it's literally a music forum tho

Drill era happened because them Chicago niggas knew they couldn’t make mbdtf

I’ll take the classic albums and impeccable discography if it means Kendrick stays sane for longer

imma be so real bro please stop talking to me because if i find out what u look like and see u irl im smacking the s*** outta ur midget ass

Anyone that actually listened to Kendrick’s and Drake’s albums never thought Drake was a better pure rapper than Kendrick lol

Y’all need to stop conflating popularity with quality on here

i did and still do but i value different things from rappers

idk why yall cant accept that some people like different things

its not objective, only thing that is objective is NUMBERS

Random thought but when i heard that gospel intro on coloring book i just knew it was over for chance after that

I’d give up as an artist after hearing “MBDTF” for the first time

Convinced dude is trolling because prime Wayne is better than most of that list

after thinking about it op is halfway right

but i think this is something that happens genertionally, it usually takes about 20 years to reinvent the wheel

1994 - Illmatic
2004 - College drop out
2014 - The tour

college drop out was a evolution, but the tour was a completely new invention. its gonna take us to get to like 2030 for all of ths s*** to feel fresh again

them trap niggas heard MBDTF and thought

what happened to Put On Kanye??? “this new s*** too polished and rich Kanye. it’s…luxury trap!”

lowkey mbdtf was a breath of fresh air cause 808s was so jarring i remember as a kid being happy kanye was more nigga again

Funny ass thread

maybe I a***yzed it differently cause i was watching “Amazing” Kobe montages since you know, I wasn’t heartbroken and just a kid listening to music lmaooo

that nigga always been a nigga to me

i actually loved 808s i just wasnt used to the suit brah i was like 10 mane graduation was like the greatest thing i had ever seen at that point so when he went grau suit i was confused as a grown man i love it

Bro unironically posting this guy lmao

see this why art is dope

I thought dude was just on his MiB s***

I was more thrown by the Mohawk haircuts

feel like that nigga was just trying s*** cause he was too depressed to care lmaoo

lmao only time you can say this was gkmc era. other than that, drake's been a better rapper

YEP

YOU GET IT IN THAT FIRST SENTENCE

illmatic was a landmark but there were other albums reinventing the wheel before and right after that... illmatic was basically rakim dialed up to ten, straight outta compton was immense, the chronic reshaped the sound of an entire coast, rza changed the game, cube and public enemy brought a whole new dimension to political rap, outkast were pioneers etc... this take is way too oversimplified lmao

between 87 and 97 the game evolved like crazy on a yearly basis

Man shut the f*** up being mad at effort is wack af