You know what I hate? People who act like listening to dadrock and topcharters from the 70s-90s means they have a better taste in music. Like wow good job starfish you listen to music everyone else had decided was good. forget discovering new bands and actually making opinions.
I completely agree with this. stuff like this is just a shortcut to developing an actual taste in music.
Just to clarify, there's nothing wrong with that music. But it's the default genre for these garbage people, mostly because lots of them are young people who had their stuffty dads show them the "real music"
The thing about hip hop is that it's just another genre of music. In the end there is a lot of generic filler rap that meets the stereotypical criteria of "forget bitches, get money, sell drugs, kill people" but most of it doesn't take off, because that on its own isn't very interesting. I guess an exception to that would be if it's produced really well or has a good ass beat. Panda by Desiigner doesn't have a lot of emotional depth to it but it has a good ass beat and decent lyricism and rhythm, and that's why it exploded to the top of the charts when it got noticed.
Anyone saying "most of rap is bad" or "99% of it is stuff" has a worthless opinion, because they clearly haven't actually experienced enough rap to say that. Even if rap has a greater "stuff to good" ratio (Perhaps because more young people look to rap and hip hop as a way out of poverty, than, say, country or metal) that isn't a mark against the medium itself, because anyone worth listening to that there's more quality rap than one can listen to in a lifetime, and the same can be said about most big genres like that.
