Instead of making the same monotonous thread with a revisionist lens let's focus on what the young nikkas do best and do better than the generation before them (00s MCs/artists) and the golden era (90s MCs/artists)
In my opinion the millienals strengths is clearly their production, harmonizations, rythms and melodies... The younger generation is clearly on some fashion forward shyt and they've incorporated new dance(s) into their rhymes..
And that's most.. You still have artists who resemble 90s/00s MCs in look and sound so..... as many users in this thread have stated..... a variety exists..
Even a cat like J. Cole (who gets ran through the mud here unfairly) can harmonize in between his bars...
Most of them aren't technically sound from a lyrical standpoint but neither were the majority of artists from the generation that preceded the golden era.. It's not their fault the dominant sound isn't "traditional"
Hip hop is getting older but it's not fuxking Jazz music.. This shyt will forever be for the children.. For the youth..