Rap music peaked with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

[Ohene]

Would yall agree with that statement? I aint saying its the greatest ever (though its in my top 5). But from a sonic, commercial, impact standpoint...nothing bigger and better has come out since or before

Yeezy had a crazy run from 2010-13 but it really peaked with that Watch the Throne concert. Between that album and MBDTF it has been downhill ever since. Sure DS2 and the Kendrick album was good but nowhere near as epic, anticipated or good impactful as My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Crazy thing is with all the Good Friday joints you can tell there was a lot more in the tank. They coulda made it a double album and it still woulda had zero skips. Other than Get Rich or Die Trying I cant think of another album as big since the 2000s started. I really think MBDTF is the peak of rap music.

 

[TheNig]

I thought this album was so fukkin bad. I will never understand people's amazement with it.

 

[MrFettuccinnePockets]

NO

 

[Ohene]

I thought this album was so fukkin bad. I will never understand people's amazement with it.

Mindblowing statement
You like his older albums better?

 

[Controversy]

Rap music peaked in the 90s & it ain't close

 

[Jerz-2]

Rap music peaked in the 90s & it ain't close

This.

 

[Yehuda]

I thought this album was so fukkin bad. I will never understand people's amazement with it.

Yeah this is the album where he lost me for real. And the discourse around dude got too weird for me.

 

[Grand Conde]

Rap music peaked in the 90s & it ain't close

Great album but yeah, this.

 

[Damnshow]

No it didn't, stop rewriting history with things that don't make sense.

 

[inndaskKy]

Anything post 50 Cent's run isn't really hip hop imo. When Kanye outsold 50, hip hop basically stopped existing.

 

[Womb Raider]

I thought this album was so fukkin bad. I will never understand people's amazement with it.

 

[Bigblackted4]

You got people in here saying it was a bad album lmao What album did y'all listen to. The album Including the Good Friday Series and Watch the Throne is Peak rap

 

[TheNig]

Mindblowing statement
You like his older albums better?

If I'm being honest, I don't like anything after Graduation. Hell, Graduation is my favorite Kanye album.

After that, shyt just got weird.

Same thing with Drake. I don't like anything after Nothing Was The Same.

 

[BK The Great]

90's & Early 00's > My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I see it more from the perspective of it being the beginning of the end, rather than any sort of peak.

At that point, Kanye pretty much was the last entity to push rap music through the last phase of exploitation, in its entirety. Truth be told, there wasn't a whole much left to kill at that point, but he made-cotdamn-sure to put the final nail in its casket.