Maybe it's the era.[...]
But in saying all of this, rap isn't the only genre that is boring atm
grime is infested by hipster producers recycling wiley circa 2002 samples, guys trying to figure out the best way to sell out like some common hoes and brehs trying to do their best D-Block impersinations over bootleg in da club style dr dre beats. i fuccing can't stand uk hip hop.
dubstep is either rehashing rebore bootleg knockoffs of coki riddims (brostep) or rehashing kryptic minds 'one of us' album (dungeon smh)
on this side of the pond...house and techno are just sh1t. all the dubstep producers that were worth anything just decided to flood the house scene with their bollocks
and i'm not into any other genres so i couldn't give my opinion on that.
Chelsea wolfe is good tho...I like her, a lot
I haven't heard pusha's album yet but I have actually been impressed by the singles so far.
People just do what's popping at the moment.
For example, take Avicii or Swedish House Mafia.
They both have the House crown for a moment when the former dropped Bromance/Fade remix/Rapture remix/Levels and so on. Then a gang of producers dropped similar stuff. SHM also had it and clubs on smash with One/Miami 2 Ibiza/Leave the world behind. And same here, people dropped same sounding stuff. No originality whatsoever, just biting what's popping.