Roaden Polynice
Superstar
Well damn.
You know what, I kinda like that you're putting all the Migos / Rich Gang / Drill stuff (I guess) bullshyt with her. I read a little of those threads popping and most of it was about her being a culture vulture which was a code word (to me at least) that it was only because she was white not because she was wack.
I must say though it's my music of heart, I don't listen to rap anymore. Quality is too low and content is not interesting enough for a breh like me which first rap album was Tical and I wasn't even a teenager or understood English at the time. People say you gotta look for the good stuff but it shouldn't be this way if the genre's health was fine. That fact alone tells me that rap in 2014 is ass.
I grew up in the second golden era (94/98) and it's impossible for me to appreciate the current bullshyt that is called rap nowadays. I jam some of the current songs from time to time but mostly I don't listen. I switched to rock/house/down-tempo/dubstep a couple of years ago and I never looked back. I'm not even 30 so I'm not a old head yet but rap these days is trash point blank. I don't care what the current listeners say but I can't get jiggy with it.
Yeah man. There's some good stuff out there, I like what Kendrick is doing who seems to be about something, J. Cole was a bit of a revelation this year, and Drake sorta oscillates between nonsense and some decent shyt. And I still listen to GKMC, which is a bit of a feat these days.
Who knew that with the mounting platter of music that is on display with the internet that it would all turn out to be so fleeting? You can have all the new music you want but it basically exists to simply stand in until the next new song, new artist, new mixtape, new album takes our attention. And that exists across all genres honestly, but with rap I dunno what it is but it's more apparent and temporary. And I think that stems from rap being very very conservative in its outlook, creation and fans (and I've talked about this before but I keep coming back to it). It's almost like these trends exist across all music, but with rap music these trends are amplified.

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at Dortmund's season...but ya'll got it covered 

shyt is just going to blend back into electronic music at the end of the day. Shabazz Palaces is kind of a more ambient project too, with evolving themes etc like an Autechre or Eno. Everything is a mix of styles now.
No matter what black folks are going to be at the fore front of this music shyt, ambient, vocal or otherwise.