Hermes666

6y

Golden age?! Jesus f***ing christ. Just to be clear. Somewhere between dope and decent:
Ka, Roc Marciano, billy woods, Elucid, Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher, Stove God Cook$, Action Bronson, Meyhem Lauren, Che Noir, Fly Anakin, Koncept Jack$on, Big Kahuna OG, Boldy James, Starker, YL, loji, Maxo, Navy Blue, Willie the Kid, Rome Streetz, Evidence, Blu, Planet Asia

Everyone else is just some wack netcee garbage. Without the Internet those dudes would be f***ing UPS delivery drivers. When do they perform live?

Late 90s-mid-2000s is the underground golden age when dudes were dropping pure fire and touring the world performing but still living like regular dudes. Now we got these entitled Bandcamp OBI $1000 album chumps clogging up the game. And ya'll trustfund kids too dumb and too soulless to see the real anymore. Damn shame.

Marcus is Dust

6y

Between Ka, Roc Marci, Mach (as much as you may disagree), woods + Elucid, and Griselda, it’s definitely a special time. Those dudes alone make it a golden era to me

Hermes666

6y

Well yeah those dudes minus Mach definitely are creating dope music. Not a single piece of me disagrees with that, even if I think it pales into comparison to the era I spoke on but maybe I'm wrong to compare. In fact f*** it I am wrong to compare. Each era has its merits.

Let's put some respect on A.G. and Ray West's names though, they undoubtedly influenced a lot of this post-2010 sound. Roc was messing with them heavy prior to Reloaded.

Marcus is Dust

6y

Not gonna go there with you bout Mach

And I'm not discrediting earlier gens at all. In fact I'm not even saying this is is the best era OAT. But yeah, I do acknowledge that these dudes wouldn't be doing what they were doing if it weren't for their influences and figures who came before them. Salute to earlier generations for sure

I just wanna praise this era's geniuses, Ka, Roc, woods (and Mach). I know all of them are huge hip hop heads and respect their predecessors

Hermes666

6y

Golden age?! Jesus f***ing christ. Just to be clear. Somewhere between dope and decent:
Ka, Roc Marciano, billy woods, Elucid, Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher, Stove God Cook$, Action Bronson, Meyhem Lauren, Che Noir, Fly Anakin, Koncept Jack$on, Big Kahuna OG, Boldy James, Starker, YL, loji, Maxo, Navy Blue, Willie the Kid, Rome Streetz, Evidence, Blu, Planet Asia

Everyone else is just some wack netcee garbage. Without the Internet those dudes would be f***ing UPS delivery drivers. When do they perform live?

Late 90s-mid-2000s is the underground golden age when dudes were dropping pure fire and touring the world performing but still living like regular dudes. Now we got these entitled Bandcamp OBI $1000 album chumps clogging up the game. And ya'll trustfund kids too dumb and too soulless to see the real anymore. Damn shame.

Hermes666

6y

90s was obviously the real dope underground golden era but in terms of a more visible independent scene the late 90s-early 2000s s***s all over the current scene (even though there are some dudes who I agree are f***ing dope as hell).

Cunninlynguists, Oktober, Natural Elements, People Under The Stairs, Zion I, Aceyalone, Black Milk, Elzhi, Sean Price, Skyzoo, Cannibal Ox, Murs, Loer Velocity, Little Brother, Madlib, Masta Ace, MF DOOM, Hieroglyphics, Dilated Peoples, Planet Asia, One Be Lo, Phat Kat, Oh No, Company Flow, Blackalicious, Self Scientific, MF Grimm, Jean Grae, The UN, C-Rayz Walz, O.C., Buckshot, Reks, AG, Sadat X, Royce Da 5'9".

That's just off the top. This thread is embarrassing unless you delete like 70% of that list. Then we good.

Hermes666

6y

Golden age?! Jesus f***ing christ. Just to be clear. Somewhere between dope and decent:
Ka, Roc Marciano, billy woods, Elucid, Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher, Stove God Cook$, Action Bronson, Meyhem Lauren, Che Noir, Fly Anakin, Koncept Jack$on, Big Kahuna OG, Boldy James, Starker, YL, loji, Maxo, Navy Blue, Willie the Kid, Rome Streetz, Evidence, Blu, Planet Asia

Everyone else is just some wack netcee garbage. Without the Internet those dudes would be f***ing UPS delivery drivers. When do they perform live?

Late 90s-mid-2000s is the underground golden age when dudes were dropping pure fire and touring the world performing but still living like regular dudes. Now we got these entitled Bandcamp OBI $1000 album chumps clogging up the game. And ya'll trustfund kids too dumb and too soulless to see the real anymore. Damn shame.

Hermes666

6y

90s was obviously the real dope underground golden era but in terms of a more visible independent scene the late 90s-early 2000s s***s all over the current scene (even though there are some dudes who I agree are f***ing dope as hell).

Cunninlynguists, Oktober, Natural Elements, People Under The Stairs, Zion I, Aceyalone, Black Milk, Elzhi, Sean Price, Skyzoo, Cannibal Ox, Murs, Loer Velocity, Little Brother, Madlib, Masta Ace, MF DOOM, Hieroglyphics, Dilated Peoples, Planet Asia, One Be Lo, Phat Kat, Oh No, Company Flow, Blackalicious, Self Scientific, MF Grimm, Jean Grae, The UN, C-Rayz Walz, O.C., Buckshot, Reks, AG, Sadat X, Royce Da 5'9".

That's just off the top. This thread is embarrassing unless you delete like 70% of that list. Then we good.

Marcus is Dust

6y

Deleted Scenes Friday

killjoy

6y

Stoked! And another in December! Love cravens sampling. One of 2020 MVPs

Hermes666

6y

Word. But there's some notable names missing. A.G. and Ray West for sure got to be on this list. eLZhi surely got to be there? Skyzoo? Dunbar? Bigal Harrison? Le$? Payroll Giovanni? Larry June? So many dudes with loyal followings, but float below mainstream attention.

Dunbar (Sure Shot x Bunchy Cartier) you need to get on if you're not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekhm8F9A3v4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNQZ6749Tcw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atULdVWHE6Q

Marcus is Dust

6y

Those s***s were all very boring to me

Hermes666

6y

Then dude I can tell you ain't really part of this culture. Another outsider looking in. Shame to say that, I thought you was with it.

Marcus is Dust

6y

Because I don’t like every artist you like? Make that make sense dog. Why do you gotta discard all mutual interests?

RICHAXXVOYCE

6y

Taking a stroll through Das Racist today

Water Giver

6y

2010s Rap is top 2 Rap era

Underground to mainstream

Marcus is Dust

6y

Real s***

Mainstream has definitely been meh tho imo

Water Giver

6y

2017 to 2020 is trash imo, but was fire from 2010 to 2016.

My favorite era will always be the internet mixtape (s/o datpiff & mixtape monkey) & youtube loosies underground tho that was heavy from 2008/2009 to 2014/2015ish.

Finding Kendrick's KLEP randomly online & TDE loosies on youtube before anyone really gave af about them was my whole personal huge introduction into the modern underground scene back in 09. So much different styles & creativity going back then during that era from all regions

Its been on ever since

Hermes666

6y

LAMBO! I'm just straight clowning my G. You know you good in my book. Aight what about these, Detroit fam know whats up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryd0zgBbzP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9dSVL3YI0

Marcus is Dust

6y

Well put dude. 2010-2015 was genuinely f***in crazy for popular rap.

Yeah bro seems like underground has been consistently fire since the 90s. Then the DOOM era, and now it’s just full of these geniuses, like the first few mentioned in OP

It’s beautiful to see

Water Giver

6y

The best thing i loved abour 2010s era besides i grew up heavy in ut is how varoed & accepting a lot of styles were.

From experimental, to brining back 90s, to street, to party to even s*** like "suburban frat rap" & pop rap lmao. Was such a wild west time & all of it was getting great publicity & attention. That's the main positive & strength of that era imo. Probably the most varied so far.

I agree. It's been fire & the underground is still going hard. No matter what you prefer.