2005-2008 is the Golden Age of Hip Hop.

Started by Mikey, Apr 21, 2020, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. Mikey
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    No doubt about this in my opinion.
    Nowadays will ahve so many rappers but they are all clones bar Roddy Rich(Young THug fell off) & boring as f---.

    2005-2008 classics non stop.
    just some favourites below
















    way better than majority of hip hop in the last 4 years
     
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    compare those singles/songs to this


    embarrassing.
     
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    2007-2013
     
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    2014 gives you prime Thug, prime Future, prime YG and prime Travis though, we haven't had a better year since
     
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    Be careful @Mikey if u say most of the popular rappers right now are without charisma and seem to have zero interest in hiphop, and popular producers are mostly boring assholes repeating the same s-----y trapbeat over and over ur an old man without taste !

    Oh and ftr thug and future were goats, and yg is great just like more of them. W popular ones I mostly mean losers like the amigos, lil baby, gunna etc
     
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    yeah great time period too
     
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    I agree but both future and thug got boring after (last few years) I mean they release 3400 songs a year which is great but only 100 are new and unique these days, the others all sound the same unfortunately...
     
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    future & thug are done. both so boring now.
    Travis Scott was never that good either.

    Thugs 2014-2017 was legendary & kept me interested in modern hip hop.But last few years he has been awful. Lil Uzi album was also a snoozefest bar a few songs.

    Roddy Ricch's album was very good.
     
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    akon was the man back then too.
     
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    Its easy to do this to every 4 years you want. Its easy to cherry pick
     
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    this was probably the worst era for commercially-released rap albums in the genre's history
     
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    Let's test this out. Somebody cherry pick great rap albums from 2015-2019 for me.
     
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    i do remember generally it was considered a bad era, at the time. Nas Hip Hop is dead etc.

    Looking back it was great. Way better than last few years
     
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    Roddy Rich,Kevin Gates Islah & BTG by Thug the best 3 I can think.

    These albums last few years will age very bad. Songs are too short & all we is playlists not albums.
     
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    King, Port Of Miami, Doctor's Advocate and The Big b---. 2006 smacks the s--- out of this time period alone lol.

    04-08 was an incredible time for rap music.
     
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    Food & Liquir & Hip Hop is Dead both very good as well.
     
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    Oh yeah. Press Play, Blue Carpet Treatment and even Kingdom Come were great, too. Those years were loaded with great releases. I just stopped at 4 but could go on and on lol.
     
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    I was tempted to just add 2014 on my period too, but thought that would be too broad of time difference compared to OP lol
     
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    Chamillinaire was great back around this time. Medldc hooks & a great flow. Mistape Messiah series. The man was underated. Great artist

    Ridin remix a classic




    no hip hop single as good last 4-5 years no doubt
     
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