Graycap23 said:

Yes, most rap today sucks. That's why I don't even listen to regular radio anymore and like others have already said, this awful trap BS has seeped into R&B too, making that genre stale as month old bread. Even the live performances are awful, guys hopping up and down on stage like popcorn kernels half way mumbling lyrics to their own tracks played in the background. And all of the people in the audience rises to their feet like they are next coming. Sad. I'm a millennial but from the older end of millennials since I was born in the early 80's. There's no one out here like Yaasin Bey (Mos Def), Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Tupac, Nas, AZ, Wu Tang, Gang Starr, or Pete Rock anymore. Now that was Hip Hop, all these artists that I've named are very distinctive and if you saw them live, they PUT ON A PERFORMANCE, not like the garbage that's out here now. I'm not a huge fan of Kendrick Lamar, but I can say that the brother can outright give a performance and makes music from the heart. The rest of those guys are just on the trend train trying to get money by just getting on stage doing anything and calling it music.

Usher's performance was horrid. The one thing good about his performance was his shirt. I've seen him perform way better and sing better than what he did. He hasn't been relevant in my eyes since the Confessions era.

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Cinny said:

They're all rapping in triplets, and the drums are doing the same thing. And everyone is using the 808 *instead of layering it* under unique sampled drum breaks. Ta-da! Everything sounds the same because IT IS!

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Knowledge. I concur

phunkdaddy said:

I think it's because of the trap music phenomenon now so you're right.

I can't tell the difference between Future and most of the current new

crop of rappers.

trap music [AKA crap music] = the new shit-hop?!?

Real talk, OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was the last ever rap/hip-hop album that I ever brought. And that is almost a decade ago now.

People think rap fans are intelectual light-weights and don't care if it's the same theme and melody (or lack thereof) in every song. I beg to disagree: they care but don't give it much thought. Not that I am mocking them: rap fans can barely read most PhDs are rap fans and it's well known most rappers would qualify as poets.

TonyVanDam said:

Yes they do and they all sound like uneducated coons. Every rap song has the same formula.

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1. Looped in addiqtive beats from 1976 to 1996 songs.

2. Repetitive beat patterns.

3. Either some tattooed sagging pants, ratchet ass, gold teeth wearing dudes or scantily clad females with weaves called Shaniqua as video hoes.

4. Lyrics include numerous uses of fuck, motherfucker, nigger, bitch, sex, suck, dick, shoot, kill, fucker, drugs, trap, crack etc.

5. Songs are all about trap houses, sex that leads to unwanted babies, race issues, shooting other niggas, fucking or killing bitches, shooting guns, smoking blunts, doing drugs, riding with their crew, counting money (Stacks racks). Dealing dope to black people, shooting black people, living with a loyalty to tha dogz mentality.

6. Having tattoos, missing teeth and a prison record is compulsory. Also a sub 9th grade education, being from a broken home in the projects or the hood and havinga mother with no man who is 15 years older than you and a name like Vienna or Vernita.

7. Fans are mainly teenage black and latinos as whites have generally gone off trap rap.

8. Record label manager is usually a major corporation with Zionist and Illuminati links.

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Also why is it that trap rap is still popular when it was around in 2005, and why is this gangsta shit still popular. this music is hit, its not even music and supports violent crime and black on black violence, most rap is about killing other niggaz, not white people or Police.

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RAP MUSIC IS A MODERN DAY MINSTREL SHOW

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It is not even music, its gang talking. I see these ugly ass, ratchet, SIMP ass, gold chain wearing, rap clothes and basketball wearing hoodrats singing about this shit in unlistenable ebonics style raptalk.

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For those of you not into Tnnraw, check this, this is most conscious sista ever talking about this shit. They are true black people talking about the coonery in shit hop.

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

Real talk, OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was the last ever rap/hip-hop album that I ever brought. And that is almost a decade ago now.

It's more than almost. That record came out in fall of 2003.

That is true.