Will You Be Saddened When/If You "Outgrow" Popular Rap Music?

[prophecypro]

There's definetly main parts I've outgrown (Not crazy about all the trap/dance music that's out, some is cool, some whatever) but there's a mix of young plus OG rappers who will still keep my ear.
Guys like Joey Badass make music that sounds from my youth and then you got dudes like Nas who seem to be making music that fits with their perspective as they get older which you can rock too.

So they'll always be a handful of guys I'll check for.

 

[NSSVO]

I'ma be playing rap until I'm 40. RIDING ROUND WIT DAT NINA

 

[AV Dicey]

I live hiphop, and am mature enough to acknowledge all its variants from vanilla ice, to the artists with even worse noms de guerre, such as chief keef and my personal favorite, woka floka flame!I may not listen to all types of rap, but I'll be god damned if I'll not be a 70 yr old hip hop living muthafukka.

 

[Firefly]

The fact that we "outgrow" it is the problem. It should be evolving and it's not.

Remember as vicious and explicit as it was in the 90's people still had clever wordplay and said something to make you laugh or think.

That's far and away now.

The politics screwed everything up to where things have devolved and become "yeah but the beat snappin so I fukkk wit it"

FOH......................

I get older and plot on my future. I see that alot of the lies are tired, the primadonna halfway gay swaggy is runnin things now so I can't relate or enjoy it. Not my thing to sit here and act all feminine singing along to a corny dude like Drake singing "It's my biiiirthhhdaaaay and I'll........"

So yeah

 

[Greenstrings]

Understand that Rap is and will continue growing in many different directions while you only really grow in one.

 

[Habit]

so does Hip Hop

there is dope music on both ends of the age spectrum that i can listen to, From Jigga to Joey Badass and Kendrick lamar. i don't think Hip Hop will ever get to a point where it's ALL Waka Flocka which i can't stand.there will always be a wide range of Hip Hop music & sub genres. i don't think i'll ever grow out of it, i'm 30 this year and been listening & living the culture since i was about 8/10. plus like a few people have said, you can ALWAYS listen to the classics & old stuff you like, if you were ever really a part of the culture then you will never just "grow out" of Wu Tang or Gangstarr or Ice Cube or OutKast etc etc, whatever your fav rappers were in any given era. but if you just like it cos it's trendy or only like certain artists because your homies like it then i think it's easy to out grow it.

I can't listen to a lot of the new stuff, but I'll listen to Illmatic when I'm 60 years old.

 

[hustlemania]

nah.. hip-hop will always be a part of my life..

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Do cacs ask other cacs if they will ever outgrow rock music?

 

[nieman]

Im 32, I grew up on the genre and I was about to give up on it a few years back until I went to Rock The Bells at Jones Beach a few years back. Tribe & Nas were the headliners and there was a sea of 30-40 yr olds in the audience...

People dont realize, that in comparison to other genres of music......Hip-Hop even after all this time is still in its early stages. Artists that I grew up on in the early/mid 90s, can still have careers now (if they are smart businessmen) because they still have a fan base......

I like a lot less cursing in my music, and a little more diversity in subject matter but Hip-Hop has something to offer every demographic....so Ill still be listening as long as there is someone making music that speaks to me and what I am doing.

EXACTLY!!! I'm 31 and hip-hop is a part of my life; I will NEVER outgrow it. It's still in it's early stages, hell the legends are just in their early-mid 40s. We've grown up with them. The music is there for those that chose to buy it.

It seems to me that a lot of people are caught up in what's trendy. If that is you, then the music never spoke to you' certain artists never spoke to you on anything that appealed to you on a level other that "catchy".

 

[havoc]

I feel the music has not grow with me, the more I listens to the new songs that have been coming out lately the more I become out of touch. Mainstream rap music lost its touch in connecting with people. Repetitive subject matters like money, dope and B%tches don't irritate me but sometime I want to listen to something with a mature perspective of life or something that is creative with a meaning.

 

[Danie84]

That ship sailed loooooong ago for me.

Before Ye and Lupe started bigging up Dance music. That's what I've been heavy into for a decade now. And I'm not talking that MTV Dance bullshyt, I'm talking about IDM, Darkwave, Lounge, and World Music.

My Hip-Hop radar only goes on when I hear Nas, the Wu, or any of my 90s rap heroes are dropping a new album. The new generation of rappers I like are Kendrick, Fashawn, Skyzoo, and J.Cole.

at everything else.

It's funny you're consider and a hermit just because you don't feel 2 Chainz, Drizzy, Wayne, or Nikki.

I've been listening to Pac and Nas heavy this week. The feeling I got when California Love and Hate Me Now came on doesn't invoke when I hear the new shyt. Section. 80 was the last album from a new rapper that felt like a game changer and made me

 

[BlackZilla]

Before Ye and Lupe started bigging up Dance music. That's what I've been heavy into for a decade now. And I'm not talking that MTV Dance bullshyt, I'm talking about IDM, Darkwave, Lounge, and World Music.

My Hip-Hop radar only goes on when I hear Nas, the Wu, or any of my 90s rap heroes are dropping a new album. The new generation of rappers I like are Kendrick, Fashawn, Skyzoo, and J.Cole.

at everything else.

It's funny you're consider and a hermit just because you don't feel 2 Chainz, Drizzy, Wayne, or Nikki.

Daps, reps, pornstars on your doorstep lubed up and ready to go, the whole 9 for this post.

 

[charmander]

this sounds like some whiteboy "it's only a phase" shyt

 

[Danie84]

Daps, reps, pornstars on your doorstep lubed up and ready to go, the whole 9 for this post.

 

[frush11]

With me it's like this, I love this music, but at the moment i'm not in love with it, and haven't been for a while.

I started listening to this music in 91, and about 5/6 years ago, I just stopped following the new stuff to the point where. I'm just completely out of touch with any new. Once in a while i'll hear something new, that I really love(mostly made by artist who were around in the 90's). It is what it is, I will always love HipHop and the stuff that was the soundtrack to my life, when I was growing up.

But honestly, unless a major shift happens, I don't know if i'll ever follow it, the way I did from 91 to about 05.