1. 90s east coast (nas, tribe, mobb deep, wu tang etc)

2. Mid 2000s backpack (kanye, lupe, mf doom)

3. Early 2010s underground (asap mob, tde, pittsburgh wiz/mac miller)

4. Early 2020s slayworld era (summrs, yeat, izaya tiji, iayze)

5. Late 2000s Ymcmb/mixtwpe era (wayne, drake, waka flocka, juicy j)

These r just my picks. Id throw late 80s in but i wasnt around for that

2009-2015 is the greatest it’ll ever be.

If u merge the ymcmb/asap/tde/future/juicyj/mac miller/wiz waves into one era then yea i could see that. Probably produced the most interesting music

6. Mid 2020s Boolymon/osamason/che/nett/bleood

3. Early 2010s underground (asap mob, tde, pittsburgh wiz/mac miller)

This is a more egregious use of "underground" than the zoomers describing bad hyperpop and rage music

They definitely all started out as underground and grinded to the top......

Who didn’t on that entire list in OP

Mac blew up pretty fast

Wait i misinterpreted ya post. Yea u not wrong

Who didn't? I'd accept "blog rap"

Fair

2020-2026 hot girl rap (Latto, the Dolls, Megan, Saweetie, Flo Milli, Sexy, Glo)

With most debuting in 2017

It was the era where creating great albums were at the forefront. iTunes era. Post CD (which could have hidden filler) and pre streaming (slop background era)

Give me the 90's, Early 00's, & mid/late 2010's underground.

90s and early to mid 2000s. Early 10s decent too but thats about it

Wanna shout out 90s Memphis rap, been getting into that s*** recently. Not necessarily an everyday listen, most works are a pretty niche vibe, but the stuff these mfs were doin all the way back in the 90s and how they paved the way for trap's explosion in the 2010s is crazy. The production was very unique and spacy, some of the most iconic albums were extremely lo-fi though. For the average listener it is no doubt off-putting but it gives the horrorcore atmosphere to some of these a very strong presence. Ashes 2 Ashes, Dust 2 Dust is an album I find rather depressing in large part due to that factor. Listening to it with the cover art makes it feel like you're listening to a solitary posthumous release. Beyond that though you obviously have the more popular stuff from Three 6 Mafia and adjacent artists. All good stuff that I've heard so far, trying to make time for some more.

Blog era was peak

I’m bricked up just thinking about downloading some Wayne mixtape off datpiff and uploading it to one of those fat iPod classics

My favorite period was 2005-2008
So much good real underground came off that, DJ Premier was making his best beats ever during this time, every new track he made was fire.

Her p**** iPad classic
And I'm listening to Fat Lip

2030s

without the late 80's to mid 90's, hip hop would no longer exist