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Originally Posted by nars3000
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Originally Posted by ASAP
I dont understand the last point... everything does evolve... but for the better? Absolutely not... garbage will always be garbage. There will have to be a style shift coming up or its over. Remember, Gucci Gang was one of the top songs on spotify last year...
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Not sure, I have Spotify Premium, but I never use their charts as a reference to figure out what's good. Perhaps this is the reason why you feel a certain way about the genre if you find yourself limited to Spotify's database.
Here are two covers of Gucci Gang that may make you think twice about Hip-Hop being dead:
Lucas Joyner
TheRealAK
Furthermore on Drake, he basically paved the way for new school artists like Khalid, Swae Lee, French, and etc on how it's cool to sing and rap at the same time. But if you want to take it back further, no one thought of Bone Thugs as being soft back when they were singing and rapping in the 90s. Everyone was digging their style despite the fact that no one understood what they were saying in real time.
Here's an interesting question: If you were stranded on an island and you could pick just 1 Hip-Hop artist to listen to forever, who would you pick?
With all due respect to the late Tupac (hometown legend) and BIG, I would pick Drake over them easily. Heck, I might even go with 90s NAS (iLLMatic, Nastradamus, Stillmatic) over Tupac, but that's just me. |
Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of drakes songs and his style... but at the same time, his style makes it difficult to compare him to any of the serious lyricists of the past... he really is more like a pop rapper to me.
I think if I had to choose one rapper to listen to... it would probably be early 2000s Nas... not illmatic Nas but Stillmatic / Gods son Nas. He had a perfect mix of credibility and mass appeal there.