THE BAR FOR CONSUMER TASTE HAS LOWERED TREMENDOUSLY. BACK THEN MAINSTREAM LISTENERS WERE LISTENING TO MF DOOM NOW KIDS ONLY LISTEN TO KEN CARSON AND SABRINA CARPENTER

Looking at this line up and immediately thinking of Joe budden

i remember seeing a s*** ton of people hating on this cypher when it first came out lmao and now a lot of people are fond of it

uzi is massively influential and has had a 10 year long incredibly successful beloved career with multiple classic songs and albums that have went diamond and platinum
kodak had a very succesful run of 5+ years with multiple massive hits and great projects
21 had a like 8 year career with 2 classic projects and again multiple massive huge hits and hes still doing well
denzel curry has had an over 12 year career of critically acclaimed projects and sucess just not to the same commercial bloxkbustre levels of the others
yachty also had multiple massive albums and songs across genres and a career revival in the mid 20s

what
and this cypher is known as the best cypher xxl ever had and THE iconic face of the freestyles

hate given

old heads said this in 2016 and said it started in 2004 bro

the concept of yachty being more sucessful than lil uzi vert

It’s actually crazy seeing ppl turn into the oldheads they hated

like do mans rly think in 2016 35 year olds were like yea i love kodak black and lil uzi vert no they thought nas was right

Lil Jon/Dem Franchize Boyz/Snap Dance era > Soulja / Lil B > Thug (who himself was great but is the bridge for the next type of artist) > yachty/uzi/carti

Yeah Nigga lol

4 goats in this list

Older niggas absolutely rocked with mixtape Kodak because he was still on the trajectory of the type of 2000’s artist yall s***ting on lol

(Until Pop Smoke and DaBaby) Kodak’s first variant, along with Chance is arguably the last top mainstream rap artist/s who could have fared in the 2000’s - late 2000’s as a top 15 mainstream rapper

This is what I mean by like its certain s*** its hard to explain to a nigga who only knows the post 2015 rap game lol

bro i remember being a kid in 2016 and having an older brother in his 30s dawg most older folks thought kodak was ass juice and the lil big pac mixtape cover and title was blasphemy and he could never touch those heights

and if not him then uzi and yachty for sure

ppl in their 30s thought the 90s was the holy grail of music (lowk a lot of ppl in their 20s too) and that all this s*** was bullshit and rap was dead they used lil yachty in arguments the way yall use 2slimey now

that class was called the worst of all time and proof hip hop was dead the switch up came later

Hey siri play million dollar baby

Yeah thats post label wicks yak label likely telling him (or he himself coming up with the strategy) to do s*** like that for attention in the shadow of yachty and uzi s***ting on prior eras of rap
Im talking boosie fade kodak where he was versatile and coherent and relatively lyrical because thats the type of artist he probably grew up on as a fan of 2000’s rap that yall saying is outdated lmao (boosie jeezy ross plies webbie)

i fw boosie webbie and gucci idk who this imaginary person is ur talking to i mean yea its dated but in a good way

ya the xxl class was 2016 so duh im talking kodak in 2016 not 2013