Gen Z claims Hip Hop is “Progressing” so Name one thing current rappers do better than past MC’s?

[eufemism]

Actually make money

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Rappers are way more versatile these days. They can sing poorly and then rap poorly and people will love it

 

[Sire366]

Who did we choose as legends who were bad for the game?

I mean, I thought Lil Wayne post 2006 was not good and caused a lot of regression, but thats just me... Chief Keef would probably be considered a millennial influence too (I understand the gap between those born early 80s and mid 90s, but still technically considered same generation when talking about this).. Future too, hes a millennial anointed legend

 

[Youngblood Priest]

Bruh, they aint did shyt.

 

[Animal House]

I’ll just say this, there are artists and then there are mcs’. I prefer to listen to mcs’

 

[Still Benefited]

Gen Z rap is god awful to me, but I do agree with this. They can make songs about these topics without sounding preachy or corny. Something Nas can't seem to do

They sound corny as hell to me,and don't even seem authentic to me about being depressed or suicidal,seems like its just a "emo/depressed" sub genre in rap these days. Its like they rap about those topics just to have some fake "substance". None of them will ever drop anything like the Mood Muzik series. Please don't get it twisted,I've enjoyed ALOT of gen-z hiphop. But the thread says "current" rappers so I'm guessing it means past 3-5 years as opposed to 2008 and beyond. They have alot working against them thats out of their control. Like the fact internet has pretty much created one unified persona. Where if these nikkas don't look alike,they rap alike,or think alike. The death of the persona has been a deathblow to hiphop imo. In the past we had great personalities and characters,and they were able to translate that into their music. There was a level of authenticity there ,because either thats who they really were,or just because they had talent to make you feel they were through their music. The "unified persona" that the internet has created,makes most of these new dudes personas,boring and cliche. Rap/hiphop is dead for the same reasons wrestling and most everything else did. And you could say its just because I was younger,but there I've still seen some great hiphop personas in GenZ,just not very many imo.

 

[King Ming]

They cancelling Cacnem on twitter

 

[Tribal Outkast]

They cancelling Cacnem on twitter

Good luck with that

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Yeah, melodies, harmonies, autotune.

Today's rappers are hybrid r&b singers.

Stop it.

 

[CrimsonTider]

They sound corny as hell to me,and don't even seem authentic to me about being depressed or suicidal,seems like its just a "emo/depressed" sub genre in rap these days. Its like they rap about those topics just to have some fake "substance". None of them will ever drop anything like the Mood Muzik series. Please don't get it twisted,I've enjoyed ALOT of gen-z hiphop. But the thread says "current" rappers so I'm guessing it means past 3-5 years as opposed to 2008 and beyond. They have alot working against them thats out of their control. Like the fact internet has pretty much created one unified persona. Where if these nikkas don't look alike,they rap alike,or think alike. The death of the persona has been a deathblow to hiphop imo. In the past we had great personalities and characters,and they were able to translate that into their music. There was a level of authenticity there ,because either thats who they really were,or just because they had talent to make you feel they were through their music. The "unified persona" that the internet has created,makes most of these new dudes personas,boring and cliche. Rap/hiphop is dead for the same reasons wrestling and most everything else did. And you could say its just because I was younger,but there I've still seen some great hiphop personas in GenZ,just not very many imo.

Do you bring up Joe Budden music as the standard

 

[Premeditated]

With all due respect OG nostalgia got u misinterpreting what I said

I never said 90s rappers styles weren’t versatile

I simply stated the versatility for individual rappers has evolved, 90s was 30 years ago. Rappers can harmonize with beats and spit 16 bars, they flow on pop beats and drill beats it’s actually a sight to behold

that's because most these rappers harmonizing ain't really nice like that. they are force to go that route to disguise their below average bars.
you ever listen to their lyrics?
if they rapped it instead of sing it, most listeners would be like "get this weak nikka outta here with this "
so it's better for them to sing instead to make it look like they're saying something meaningful.

that's how these untalented dudes trick yall.

most these harmonizing nikkas would be Bow Wow status in the early 00s with their weak bars. I don't think Lil Baby is a better rapper than what Bow Wow was and he's the top new rapper.

 

[Gold]

Beats are better, range is better. Hooks are more versatile

Thats about all i can say. Bars are not better

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Seriously

I don't think people actually like the new music

I still love stuff from 1993

From 1983

Outside of Hip Hop, songs last for decades. Some songs will last forever perhaps

But even among the "fans" of the new music, the biggest tracks from last year are totally gone by now.

If you tried to play the biggest hit from 2010 in 2021 people would revolt. They would be offended

So all these so called hits just magically become wack after 18 months.. Tekashi says out loud that his music is trash but his videos are fire.

That fool was the top artist for like a whole year. "Hit" after "hit". A big ass pile of trash

Or maybe your food doesn't taste as good as you think it does

I think the 4K videos and big budget videos helped this era of rappers it’s non stop partying and fun

sometimes you need something to help you reflect or chill

that can’t be gotten from strip club / nightlife music

the younger generation as a whole will mostly release party music

 

[Still Benefited]

Do you bring up Joe Budden music as the standard

No,I just thought Joe Budden was great at that type of music in his era. But even he wasn't respected.
So what makes you think we about to respect these less talented, little weirdo emo nikkas of today?

 

[CrimsonTider]

No,I just thought Joe Budden was great at that type of music in his era. But even he wasn't respected.
So what makes you think we about to respect these less talented, little weirdo emo nikkas of today?

Joe Budden was not good at making music