this only kinda applies to TPAB, Kanye’s music doesn’t have that effect where it feels like something in a creative vaccum his music for most of his career has brought the best out of many artists & has always been openly super collaborative

Tyler is one of the only exceptions

Yeah I read in a rush but I also disagree.

DS2, Barter 6, Tha Tour Pt. 1, Pluto, Finally Rich, Run The Jewels, At Long Last A$AP, all pushed the respective boundaries of the genre and are 'creative' in their own right

There's still projects as creative as, if not more creative than the ones you specified

tpab was massively influenced by mbdtf

ye the goat no cap lock thread & consider banning op

Ye Da 🐐 No 🧢

Are we excluding post-2015 Kendrick from this convo? He released multiple classics after TPAB too. It seems like everyone agrees that DAMN, Mr Morale, and GNX are classics

Damn is his worst album

kendrick released zero classic albums post tpab

"multiple"

gnx is literally a terrible album

Guys getting in asses on this sunny Tuesday. Love to see it

Nope

like 6 bad alien posts in here

glad you have your own opinion twin. have a great day

He must've posted only 6 times

If anything, rappers like Ye and Kendrick created the template of what a good rap album is suppose to sound like, and that's not a good thing. It's changed now, but every critic at one point reviewed albums based off certain producers, feats and criteria to what they thought a good rap album is. And it was all based off of the standard set by MBDTF and GKMC.

I was just thinking that the golden age of hip hop was basically the 11 year window between 87 and 97 from paid in full to life after death... every era that came after was increasingly shaped by fewer unique mcs and actual trendsetters

Kanye west gassing away his brain has had more impact on hip hop’s recent trajectory than anything else & it pains me

f*** gnx, that s*** trash

It's way better than GNX and on par with Morale