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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.
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?