I can absolutely explain it, because I'm super passionate about this overall topic.
There are absolutely new techniques and what not. But as far as making entire albums that will move old heads in the same way that they got moved by 36, Illmatic, Cuban Linx, Etc? It's not gonna happen. For one reason, time makes things less exciting for most people. When older heads were younger they had heard less overall music and were easier to impress. For another reason, in the 90's hip-hop was still new as a genre. RZA could flip vocal samples and blow people's minds off that alone.
I don't think that all the older heads today understand that albums like the ones by MadGibbs or BoldChemist are influencing some younger listeners now in similar ways that us older heads were influenced by Liquid Swords, Reasonable Doubt, etc. WE might disagree, but our vote isn't the only one that counts. Not all of the young cats listen to bullshyt, and they get a vote too. A lot of them love many of these TDE, Griselda, MadGibbs, and BoldChemist albums.
The older heads insisting that Madlib or Alchemist has to produce an album as influential to the game as Cuban Linx or an Infamous before rating them a top 5 producer shouldn't hold their breath waiting for that to happen. Our generation will never be impressed like that again... they've heard way too much music and are too hard to impress. I actually think it's starting to get unfair for EVERY album to have to be as good as golden era Source 5-mic albums in order to be considered classics.
