Rap music peaked with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

[Lord Beasley]

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

 

[mikishere]

theres definitely an argument that GKMC is better. i dont agree with the rap music peak statement, more so that the MBDTF era was the last time i was super excited about the rap game. the good friday drops leading into MBDTF is probably the GOAT album run ever.

 

[Ohene]

@kp404 i didnt miss out on anything lol. My favourite albums are 90s albums.

theres definitely an argument that GKMC is better. i dont agree with the rap music peak statement, more so that the MBDTF era was the last time i was super excited about the rap game. the good friday drops leading into MBDTF is probably the GOAT album run ever.

that all feeds into what I am saying about how it peaked then. The rollout/anticipation of the album combined with how it lived up to the hype. Unmatched.
And nah, GKMC aint even close

 

[Mac Ten]

Nah…

If anything, I was playing and downloading Gucci Mane and 1017/BSM mixtapes off LiveMixtapes and DatPiff to my black Phillips GoGear MP3 player.


My favorite albums of 2010 were:

Pink Friday
Flockaveli
The Appeal: Georgia’s Most Wanted


I started to check out Boosie’s material after hearing that Incarcerated album back then as well.

 

[Bondye Vodou]

Stop spending so much time around cacs. Go relisten to classic 90s album and come back. MBDTF ain’t even Ye’s best project.

 

[Ohene]

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

Cant say that cause commercially it wasnt at its peak yet. Highest sellign non-double rap albums are mostly in the shady/aftermath era

 

[zayk35]

This album was like "how come I'm not in on the joke" it got so much praise and I couldn't and still cannot figure out why. Hell I still can't figure out how and why Kanye became this so-called genius. His music has always been spotty to me. I was 31 when that garbage dropped, so I still had my "hip-hop ears" and my ears told me to turn it off. Kanye is truly one of the most overrated rappers/producers of all-time. He's terrible

 

[Ohene]

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

you get it. nobody is saying its the goat album, its up there but it isnt my favourite. It's probably like number 7 in my top 10 which features all 90s albums outside of Get Rich or Die Trying and Diplomatic Immunity. Might add Watch the Throne too

but almost everything went downhill afterwards in terms of quality and commercial success once the next generation (Drake, Ken, Cole) took over

 

[Ohene]

This album was like "how come I'm not in on the joke" it got so much praise and I couldn't and still cannot figure out why. Hell I still can't figure out how and why Kanye became this so-called genius. His music has always been spotty to me. I was 31 when that garbage dropped, so I still had my "hip-hop ears" and my ears told me to turn it off. Kanye is truly one of the most overrated rappers/producers of all-time. He's terrible

I'ma catch flack for this but So Appalled is up to par with if not better than almost every posse cut your 'hip hop' ears have heard

 

[Mac Ten]

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

Hip Hop kinda became soft…


Luckily, Gucci Mane brought that gangsta shyt back. Kanye had nikkas wearing gay clothes and it didn’t help that Wayne had gotten locked up for a year. Drake was still likable and wasn’t a dikkhead.



The MVP of that era would be Rick Ross. He ran the streets for a couple summers(2010-2012). Once BMF hit the streets, it was a wrap. Lex Luger became a sought after producer to the point where he had copycats.


Early Metro was a Lex Luger clone. OJ put him on while Future was still a weed carrier for Rocko.

 

[Ohene]

its also one of the last albums that was handled by a bunch of random producers

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

It was a shyt album.

 

[Mac Ten]

Stop spending so much time around cacs. Go relisten to classic 90s album and come back. MBDTF ain’t even Ye’s best project.

Graduation fits that bill…

Every track went in

 

[Zero]

Tell me Kanye was your introduction to rap without saying it

 

[Bugzbunny129]

I dont think anyone with that level of stardom will make a hip hop album like that again with legends and all and be respected like that was. In a way, I get what your saying. Im not sure i agree but somewhat i do.