Hip Hop has an age problem… kinda

Interesting pov. The way you're describing hip hop culture sounds like how Tony Soprano described the Mafia or the way it felt to watch De Niro in The Irishman.
I hope you are wrong, but I do think there may be some upsides of it being less popular, it has more chance of staying in community.

Hip hop is at It's peak popularity globally. Kneecap are the top young act in Ireland, that would've never happened in the 90s. But it's a genre that isn't evolving in any earth shattering way in the US.

Here in the states, it needs to move out of the mainstream in the way rock has. Just be a genre for the real fans and not something forced onto mass audiences until something really new and good comes along. Right now it's like punk rock in the 2000s, global, plenty of mainstream attention, but ultimately what gets on TV and the radio has been done to death before and it was far better decades ago. There's quality independent stuff, like the dude in the video said, but the industry ignores it and puts forward the most watered down uninteresting ambassadors of the genre. Enough already.

There's other shit out there. I'd like to see some black bands and instrumentalists instead of solo artists get the big industry backing for a change. Don't care what genre. Maybe mainstream rap will get better once DJs have new shit to sample again.

I agree with wanting a full art project.

I really like hearing where an artist is for that time in their life.

You can hear the difference in their vibe (depending on the artist of ) with every album and I miss that

it’s because hip-hop has progressed backwards for the past 15 years and people are finally realizing the OG’s are the only one with talent

7:10 Alligator bites was fire tho

Coast Contra is so dope

15:03 check out flemlo raps

I'm so not plugged in I used to think playboi carti was a chick

How is that a problem 25 years ago or so it was nobody want to hear their grandfather rap now we have all sorts of grandfathers rapping and it's awesome but I guess I should watch the rest of the video before commenting LOL

"There simply wasn't this much high quality stuff coming out in the 90's" LOL you sound like a straight up clown I found you from your Tyler Perry video and I thought it was a good watch but everything else I clicked on from you have been complete trash

Listen to Osamason

Music is just better. Everything is better. We’re an older species, than yesterday. The young eats the old, and poops out new young.

Our generation is smaller and less likely to jump out of their skin in the name of self expression. I think this is changing though.

Hard for Gen Z and Gen Alpha to understand that hip hop journalism sued to be like an actual job in an office where you had healthcare benefits. And you like dressed up for work… type beat.

Yeah I dunno, with regards to your point about culture-shiting young stars, you get for instance the SoundCloud boom of the late 2010s with Lil Peep, XXXTENTACION, Juice WRLD etc… that changed the boundaries of hip hop and expanded and complicated the genre, introducing emo rap, Sadboi etc… not to mention what Pop Smoke did for the NY Drill scene and the Vamp scene with Playboi Carti… I think there are still giant cultural shifts being made and HipHop keeps being complicated and expanded.

In terms of "would these rappers be able to sit down and make a REAL rap project"… I think patience is the way here… Because even people like Tyler, I don't think anyone could've predicted Chromokopia at any point before Flower Boy. So I think time will tell as they get older and their own artistic journeys progress.