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Originally posted by Gouldkaty
America stans hip hop so hard these days.
tbh it's mostly boring and pop music is a thousand times better.
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Hip hop has been going in the wrong direction for the past 11 years which is why it is at the state of emergency right now.
In the era of Nelly hot in here and that era where hip hop dominated the hot 100 charts, the genre and it's artists decided to focus on catchiness (add a hook singer) and make people dance instead of making people think and expose the underbelly of what's going on in the world.
Of course like a Tupac you'd have that and then songs like california love/how do you want it/i get around. But there were still songs like keep your head up, dear mama, changes etc.
You had DMX giving that gospel and ruggedness
You had Jay z changing the game
Nas was serving scripture
Missy was serving innovative and new flows/deliveries
Kim was serving rawness, edge and high fashion
Foxy was serving sass with a message.
Biggie was serving gospel with a whole new rhyme scheme and take on storytelling.
Wu tang clan was serving ahead of its time music
Lauryn was PROVING that a female could sing, rap, compose etc. with quality, innovation, uniqueness and still cover diverse topics all based in quality.
I'M NOT going to blame it on eminem because he serves quality but I will say AFTER he blew up it seems like newcomer rappers tried to chase crossover and catchiness even more.
With the exception of Outkast serving quality, Nelly, Ja rule, 50 cent, Ludacris, Chingy, Mystikal were dominating but they were serving catchiness and radio friendly but not quality based forward thinking music.
that impacted what current rappers think is ok to do which is why the genre continues to regress