Seems like you have a lot of the same hipster mentality that's killing hiphop to me...Being different and not "safe" doesn't automatically qualify you as being talented....Brotha Lynch,E-40,Bone Thugs are examples of people being bold and being themselves and being GREAT....you hipster types exalt any lil nikka that dares to be different "ooh oooh he's pushing boundaries and is so edgy yall
"....Hiphop can be great when the artist is sticking to the basics and staying inside the box,and it can be great when artist go outside the box...ALl these "Im bigger than hiphop" artist are slowly killing hiphop trying to introduce other genres,and cultures into this shyt and watering the genre down....When you get the picture of they fanbase,and more importantly the color of they fanbase,that should tell you right there whos safe and whos not.
Out of all the artist you named,I'd say Lil B and ASAP might be the safest of all
:?And that's not the hiphop I grew up on
Great examples of when going outside the box goes wrong,which is majority of the time...In a world where there are hipster hiphop fans like you exist who embrace anything "different" I'd say they had the same easy journey most of the cats you named had
,yet you try your hardest to tell us how edgy they are?nah just different from the other 90% of whats going on in hiphop at the time,just like Drake,Kendrick,J Cole were
...at least Drake,kendrick,jcole can say they made non hipsters,non cacs come around by making great music.
Only difference is Lil B and Asap are STILL ONLY accepted by hipsters like yourself who embrace EVERYTHING that seems a little "edgy" or different no matter how wack,wheres the accomplishment in that? And then there was Future,a man who rose to be king of the crop and face of a movement known as "futuristic",where he made a different sounding music
? that FORCED people who don't just embrace "different" all willy nilly to embrace him
...He did that without pandering to the damn hipster crowd,just wantd the streets to embrace him as is....Then he went to LA and started pandering to the hipsters and got bad feedback from his core,went back to the streets and has now forced the hipsters and cacs to come to him in droves late as shyt....maybe that's why you reject him so much,because he forced your people crawl to him....instead of being like LIl B and Asap who crawled right into your miserable laps
King of the streets which ASAP and LIL B will never be,and possibly king of the hipsters...all while DOING HIM,but Sirbiatch aint impressed yall
...Your witnessing history,but you can continue to be mad as he continues to feed the streets and refuses to pander to yall.