There is a silver lining to Hip Hop not living in the past. I feel it’s what has pushed the music and made it the number genre in the world.
Each generation of Hip Hop takes ownership of the music and creates a sound for their generation without too much regard for how the old school feels. Which for better or for worse, creates a different sound and keeps the music evolving.
I don’t want kids in 2019 going back and fronting like they get Kool Moe Dee like how white kids be fronting like they get the Beatles in 2019. I mean you can appreciate the old school, but I feel a lot of fans of other genres give props because they feel like they have to give props.
And this is coming from a “stuck in the 90s nikka”.
I gotta agree with Life Is Good. I don't have a problem with the sound of hip-hop evolving. It should and it has. My problem is that the actual art of rapping itself, and particularly lyricism, is devolving. And it feels like more and more everyday Nas gets disrespected by lames and smug hipster fakkits because he is a premier lyricist first and foremost. I find that shyt unacceptable.
Not that there aren't new rappers who can't spit their asses off, there are, but for every nice new rapper, there are twenty trash ones who are on some "fukk all that lyrical shyt" type of shyt. It's sad.