Perspective: Rappers from recent decades are not held in the same regard as their ’80s and ’90s forebears — but they should be.
How long is this thing gonna last?,” rap journalist and scholar Jeff Chang tried to wrestle that rhetorical question out of our heads: “So, you ask, when does the Hip-Hop Generation begin? After DJ Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa. Whom does it include? Anyone who is down. When does it end? When the next generation tells us it’s over.”
These biases might be rooted in simple nostalgia, but overload undoubtedly plays a part. Rap music has become an exponentially unwieldy thing over the past few decades, especially during the streaming era, which has allowed rappers of countless different styles and strategies to circulate as much music as they please.
Hero worship shouldn’t be a problem here. Kendrick Lamar is tradition-fluent virtuoso and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Drake is something of a pop cultural omnipresence. Kanye West, currently going by Ye, is an auteur. Nicki Minaj is a pathfinder whose popularity foreshadowed a recent proliferation of women’s voices in the rap mainstream — Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Ice Spice, Latto, GloRilla, so many more — that was decades overdue.
In a way, Future and Young Thug have each aspired to become their own omni-genres. Remember when Vibe magazine published that ranked list of theLil Wayne had released in 2007? At the time, 77 felt like a dumbfounding number of tracks to unfurl within the space of 12 months, but today, that level of productivity has become standard practice for many.
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