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Anything prior to 2010 I consider the golden age of music. Every era has its own hits. But everything went to shit after that. Nothing but cookie cutter songs, and a rotating door of nice girl singers turned into total whores by the music industry.
I think hip hop overall is getting more and more low effort with every year. A lot of the greats either slowed real down with their production, declined real bad from their peak (like Lil Wayne & Kanye) or don't produce new records anymore (like Luda). I really like the highly produced sounding beats from the 2000s, and Drake was a huge breath of fresh air when he hit the scene, but now everything sounds the fuckin same.
Another great crunk album is II Trill by Bun B. >

Yeah I notice as the years go by, things keep sounding the same.
I'm kinda weird in that I never got into Drake when he came out lol. The Young Money era wasn't really for me. I liked Lil Wayne but I couldn't get into the stuff he did after Mannie Fresh split with Cash Money >

I never hear that. 2000s was fire. Kanye, Eminem, ludacris, DMX, JayZ, lil Wayne had some of his best in early 2000s >

2000s rap always came off as so artificial to me. Rap became more mainstream so more bland rap became popular do to mass appeal. Modern rap has similar problems but there are like infinity rappers to listen to these days >

I think with the 2000s, it's a mixed bag, but even then, I don't really care if rappers are "real", as long as the music sounds good. Good fiction is still good, even if it's fiction lol. That being said, imo, the best 2000s rap is the stuff that didn't get mainstream.
Even though there are like infinity rappers to listen to these days, for some reason, it feels like they all generally pool into one of a few sounds. Even old school rappers make their new stuff sound like everyone else's now and it's like... what? >

I need a little bit of realism in music. Like I cant listen to drake because alot of stuff he raps about is fake and sounds fake. Maybe it would be better to say it sounds disingenuous more than them actually being fake.  I need be able to believe an artist would do the stuff. >

The current era is the worst era in rap >

People love to overrate the 90's just because it's the latest fad. >

I will say that most people however, only mention Tupac, Biggie and Nas when they talk about the 90s, when there was a whole world of rap outside of LA and NY.
Like, I love me some Biggie and Wu Tang, but I'd love to see people talk more about more underrated 90s artists like 8-Ball and MJG, UGK, E40, Mystikal, Trick Daddy or Warren G. 
The 90s was the best, even as a lover of the 2000s I'll admit that, but damn I wish people recognized the 90s for more than just 5 artists >


Trick Daddy

Thank you for bring me back in time. >

Mid 00s to the 10s were trash hip hop. >

Yeah it wasn't bad. >

I wasnt aware it was widely considered bad/theworst. I always thought hip hop as a genre boomed and got to the front of the mainstream in the early 2000s, much more so than it did during the 90s.  And as any popular music genre, its got some great artists and some bad ones. Like in any other decade, like in any other genre. >

I notice a lot of people these days just casually going "oh yeah, the 2000s, glad music doesn't sound like that anymore."
But yeah all eras of music have their good and bad. Like, there was dumb rap in the 90s, and we still get dumb rap today lol. Rap has always had a weird mix of either really smart people, or really dumb people, with no in-between lol >

Any genre fits into that category. >

Who are these people who think 2000s rap is bad? These people are objectively wrong. Peak Luda, Kanye, “it’s going down”, “knuck til you buck”… goddamn I’m on a nostalgia kick now