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

[hex]

Gen Z says hip hop is progressing. Nowhere did it say Gen Z artist bro

Yeah I realize that but if Gen Z says hip-hop is progressing who else would they be talking about, if not their own generation and/or new artists?

I interact with Gen Z on a regular basis, they don't care about Earl or Earth Gang and don't even know Donald Glover raps. They know him from "Atlanta", if at all.

Fred.

 

[ISO]

It's not moving the goal post, the thread title says Gen Z.

And this isn't an argument I'm personally making. The thread title says "Gen Z claims hip-hop is progressing". There's a burden associated with making claims like that.



Ok cool, he didn't mention any of those artists. And half the artists he mentioned are not from Gen Z.

And we aren't even talking about the same thing. You cats keep pointing out how diverse these new rappers are....cool....point out where I said they wasn't.

I specifically said:



My main beef with the posts I quoted was saying shyt is more diverse now, than it was back then. Which is lunacy. Although @Apprentice cleared up what he meant.

The sole reason shyt seems more versatile now is, due to the internet, you can find literally anything you want. I mean....you can look at midget porn one minute then read about astrophysics the next. That don't mean you would normally encounter either of those things on a daily basis.

Fred.

Well, what the flabbies say is that everyone sounds the same now that’s what the Aries Spears nikka was on.

If the argument is what era was more diverse I mean who cares at that point what’s really the argument? Both eras had a slew of different acts and styles.

Them Detroit nikkas that rap about scamming and trapping over fast BPM beats with off-beat flows, they’re a lot different from the Buffalo dudes who rap over drumless boom bap type beats with mafioso content, they’re a lot different than them drill rappers in Brooklyn, they’re a lot different from them trap gospel cats coming out throughout the South.

Fivio Foreign and Rod Wave was on the same XXL Freshman and couldn’t be more different.

 

[KamikazePilot]

Hip hop is better and bigger than ever and old nikkas gonna have to get over it Even their God finally adapted and put out his best record in 2 decades because he finally moved forward instead of trying to stay in the past. Working with more current day artist and sound.

Hip Hop is so versatile there’s something for everyone and is going the way of Rock music where there’s so many sub genres of music you can listen to.

The number 1 music genre in the world and it’s gonna keep getting bigger and bigger get over it

 

[YakSpiller]

Meld with the beat?

Most of the more popular rappers today are great at harmonizing with more "poppy" beats, and blending their flow with the beat. Some great examples are Gunna, Lil Uzi Vert, and Lil Baby. Trippie Redd is another one.

They're great at blending more melancholic topics (like depression, drug use, suicide, etc.) into hard-hitting songs, which is one of the reasons why the shyt that they say goes over so many heads. Juice, Mac Miller and Lil Peep all rapped about addiction and such, yet it still came as a surprise when they died.

Why call this rap?

Basically these mothafukkas ain’t shyt without the beats. No real rap skills at all.

 

[Jasonmask]

Yeah I realize that but if Gen Z says hip-hop is progressing who else would they be talking about, if not their own generation and/or new artists?

I interact with Gen Z on a regular basis, they don't care about Earl or Earth Gang and don't even know Donald Glover raps. They know him from "Atlanta", if at all.

Fred.

You moving goal posts bro. And on top of that you capping way too hard right now or just don’t know enough young people. There’s literally not an era of music that would have the generation of the audience listening as well as artist simultaneously at a large scale. You have a good day hex

 

[Eternal Tecate]

Milennials and Gen X progressed it but Gen Z hasn't done jack shyt

 

[Eternal Tecate]

Gen Z is those born after 1997.

XXX, Juice WRLD, Lil Tjay, YBN Cordae, Pooh Shiesty, Pop Smoke, Polo G, NBA YoungBoy all gen Z all wildly different and diverse.

ya but all of those guys are still Future and Thug's sons

who since Metro and Thug (millenials) has done something actually progressive?

 

[8.TRES]

whats mad odd about this conversation is whenever oldheads get up and try to complain about hiphop today they specifically talk about the same handful of rappers to prove their example

its always the same specific rappers that are spoken on

shyt is mad lazy how folk dont even put in the effort required to look for good artists

its no way you could listen to artists like jid, mick jenkins, joey badass, cordae, denzel curry, tory lanez and have these same bumass complains about lyricism

and thats just off top, its easily far more younger rappers who are spitting on some non boombap shyt but nikkas just want to complain

 

[ISO]

ya but all of those guys are still Future and Thug's sons

who since Metro and Thug (millenials) has done something actually progressive?

That’s super exaggerated y’all love giving certain nikkas too much credit

 

[Family Lives Matter]

c00n

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

Yeah I realize that but if Gen Z says hip-hop is progressing who else would they be talking about, if not their own generation and/or new artists?

I interact with Gen Z on a regular basis, they don't care about Earl or Earth Gang and don't even know Donald Glover raps. They know him from "Atlanta", if at all.

Fred.

thread title also says "current rappers".... if you playing technical with thread titles, you gotta play the full court lol. especially when all the hottest rappers now are not even the gen z ones

 

[Eternal Tecate]

whats mad odd about this conversation is whenever oldheads get up and try to complain about hiphop today they specifically talk about the same handful of rappers to prove their example

its always the same specific rappers that are spoken on

shyt is mad lazy how folk dont even put in the effort required to look for good artists

its no way you could listen to artists like jid 30, mick jenkins 29, joey badass 26, cordae 23 (ok), denzel curry 26, tory lanez 28 and have these same bumass complains about lyricism

and thats just off top, its easily far more younger rappers who are spitting on some non boombap shyt but nikkas just want to complain

 

[Eternal Tecate]

Tyler dropped Yonkers when he was 19, Blu made Below the Heavens when he was 22, Kendrick did Section.80 at 23 and then GKMC at 25.

I haven't heard shyt from Gen Z and I'm not not looking

 

[Mr Rager]

They're great at blending more melancholic topics (like depression, drug use, suicide, etc.) into hard-hitting songs

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

 

[8.TRES]

Tyler dropped Yonkers when he was 19, Blu made Below the Heavens when he was 22, Kendrick did Section.80 at 23 and then GKMC at 25.

I haven't heard shyt from Gen Z and I'm not not looking

the fact you included yonkers of all songs as an example has me mad lost as to what you're looking for

tyler himself came out and said that song was some random verses with no intrinsic meaning he decided to put together; thats exactly what you'd expect from a teenager, and right now gen z isnt shyt more than a bunch of teenagers and early 20s at best

looking for some mature, developed content from an audience that's everything except that is mad asinine; artists like nas have always been the exception, not the rule

the fact you explicitly said you're not looking shows where your head is at with this