debatable (master P would like a word)! but i get your point
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Well, I guess I mean that some tried to keep the quality up. There were multiple very good 70 minute rap albums a year, even if the vast majority could use trimming! Now itās slim pickings.
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I trend towards the more trappy, slick production of mainstream rap, and have to agree. Itās been a long time since one of your Futures or Thugs or Migosās etc delivered anything essential, and two of those acts are out of action, now.
I do think Without Warning and Savage Mode 2 fit the bill (as well as IA>IW, although itās not as much fun), but theyāre hardly new. And the fact Iām still reaching for them so often says nothingās come along to replace them.
My 14 track Whole Lotta Redās a beast, though, and Iām hoping Cartiās new one will be another weird experiment, even if itās not entirely successful. He just sounds totally fearless. And TBH with someone like him, who just spits out ideas without really developing them, I actually prefer a 20 track album to play around with and cut down to the essentials.
Edit to add: worth remembering how many influential artists from this generation have been lost. You could say that Peep, XXX and Mac were all statement album artists, or building towards it, and thatās the tip of the iceberg.
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Feel like a lot of the time people are preoccupied with what these, Juice, Pop Smoke etc. might have gone on to do. I get they were mostly all doing interesting stuff, but thereās an awful lot of navel gazing going on. Like, they were mostly not particularly big artists, who are now pulling in absolutely insane streaming figures. We had plenty of it in the 90s, particularly following Biggie and 2Pac, but Iām wondering at what point people are just fetishising dead artists and this unrealised talent which may well have gone nowhere tbh. Iām sure we have lost some generational talent there but Iām not sure it should be grinding things to a halt of reverence
Edit: this sounds pretty harshly worded. Obviously absolutely tragic to lose so many talented kids so young, but I do think thereās something a bit weird in them all being hyped to completely new levels after death
this is where im at with some of my favs too. i had duke duece two releases from last year in my top 3 cos i couldnt pick which had the higher highs, just threw them both in there. but the best of playlist between the two would be the best way to listen.
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pretty standard and been that way forever. the star rises after death and they become almost martyrs. pretty much that way for all the 27 club
it puts their name in circles that they may have never crossed over into without it and alsoā¦kinda nice knowing you can dive into an artists catalog with a fairly small and digestible body of work (that they cant go ruin with additional releases with diminishing returns).
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Yeah I guess itās nothing particularly new, just seems more pronounced than at least since the late 90s right now. Dunno, streaming might mean itās easier than ever for their exposure to blow up to new levels, or maybe Iām just old and like moaning about stuff 
this is 100% it
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pretttty sure Wiki aināt from the UK guys 
nice heās back so soon though
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Yeah, youāre bang on with this. How many YOD or Boldy James releases have I heard in the last twelve months? It all blends into one song after a while. Donāt know if I have the patience to edit it all like I did with Wu-Tang Forever for example.
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canāt get over how much iām loving this, really lifting my winter blues and think itāll be so good blasted in the summer sun (/rain) too
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oh shit oh shit
if AJ is supporting Iām 100% on that Manchester Friday night slot
though if I donāt go I may have to plead with someone here to grab me an album
Yeah itās really good. I love it.
Mate - the queue for the Armand Hammer WHTLBL record apparently started forming hours before the venue opened. Hopefully he wonāt have similarā¦
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fucking indie rap vinyl nerds - scum, the lot
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having fun with this
really donāt know rap much in that 03-08 period outside of the proper crossover stuff, so all that section was - definitely the stuff i was most dismissive of as an indie kid, and havenāt really gone back to tbh
i get that the point is someone can be great for many years in a row but never have one single definitive year, but still just feels wrong to never have Andre or a Wu-Tanger at the top of a year
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Was funny scrolling down, getting Grandmaster Caz and the illustration for him and realising not a single rapper on the list would look cooler than that.
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hov for 2009 feels a bit weak but idk who it should be instead, gucci probably
anyone but future for 2015 is madness
From 2010 onwards, itās just a popularity contest. Before that, you could argue that a lot of the list were actual spitters, but Drake being on there 3 times? Come on.
That 2004-2008 period was a bad time for rap in general. And I honestly couldnāt tell you a single Jeezy or TI song.
Nice. I think they did this before. Recognise the illustrations (Dale Edwin Murray - good follow on Instagram)