shyt used to piss me off when every rapper had to publicize that they aren’t writing anymore like they shyt was gon be better lol. The 2000’s got real stale real quick. Too many “I’m not a rapper I’m a hustler…” rappers, too many punchlines…
Matter of fact @Wacky D the 2000’s were the epitome of formulaic with “superstar producer” features overshadowing whatever the concept of the album was supposed to be. You could hear in the filler songs how the singles killed their budget lol. Too many albums of slapped together songs with no sequencing, stupid ass repetitive Arab horn synths, don’t get me started on those stupid ass uninspired arcade game sound effects, going away from sampling, more “engineered for the club” records, too many rap n b records, endless pre written freestyles in alleyways surrounded by goons.
outside of some really beautiful, timeless gems the 2000’s are one of my least favorite era’s because that was the era where nikkas started act like it was lame to care about their art. The blog era, at the end of the 2000’s helped correct things for a better balance in the 2010’s. I had some of the best times of my life in the 2000’s but a lot of music suffered outside of the bigger artists, collectives, and labels. I understand artists had to do what they had to do to eat but goddamn the lows were really low back then. Some of the worst songs I can think of from the 90’s were just boring, the worst from the 2000’s were flat out bad.
The underground had some gems though, we got the come up of a lot of artists that became monsters by the end of the mid 2000’s.
