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How has your taste in hip hop changed as you’ve gotten older?

kwyj

kwyj

Diesel
Or has it?

First post here but I lurked the IC and this place for years.

I’m 28 and for the first ~12 years of my listening to hip hop I mainly listened to east coast shit. Pretty much the only groups from the west I did enjoy were the ones that sounded like they could be from east. And I’m not from the US so this wasn’t about the region, it was the sound. To me the rappers abilities were definitely more important than the overall musicality and now looking back, I did listen to some dusty ass shit.

I always dabbled in making beats but it wasn’t until few years ago when I wanted to get more serious about improving, that I started to appreciate the funkier sound. I was never about party music, even when I was still partying. Now I’ve been sober for 3 years and I love Livewire shit and Oakland is definitely the Mecca of hip hop for me.

Now that I’m older and wiser, I value the overall musicality of the song and the beat is more important than the rapper. A good rapper is just the cherry and the glazing over a good beat.

As a side note, since they are popular now, I can’t stand the Griselda shit and other artists that ride that wave. Daringer is a lazy ass producer and the rappers are cheap derivatives of talented artists from the 90s. I say this because the 16 year old me, who didn’t know any better, probably would have eaten that shit up.

- Peter
 
I'm an old ass man now.

I use to care about shit like the rapper's ability to rap. I listened to Hip Hop for the double entendres, multi-syllable rhyme schemes, all that shit that Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Jane started.

Then guys like Kanye, Kid Cudi, Future and Travis Scott came along and proved that artistic vision and direction can beat out rappers that can actually rap.

Lol I be bumping Playboi Carti and Future more than guys that can actually rap. Or I listen to them dusty ass Florida and Chicago rappers that be catching cases. Or them indie rappers.

I don't really try to find the best rapper anymore.

And beats are way more important to me than the rapper since the beat can convey more information than the rapper.
 
Now when I got older I don't listen to 90s rap liked i Used to. Thats how my taste of hip hop changed.

I haven't listen to Tupac, Biggie, Tribe Called Quest, Naughty by nature, Scarface, Ice Cube,Wu Tang or Outkast in like 5 years? Mostly I don't listen to hip hop like i used to. Less Nas and Mobb Deep even tho I was listening to Hell On earth yesterday.

In recent years I listen to Africa dance music "Afrobeats" mostly like that... AS far Hip hop goes I listen to Styles p ,Vado, Dave East, Nas, Mobb deep, Youngboy, Benny butcher, conway, kodak black, fivio, ransom, pusha t jadakiss
 
I think that I'm more open now. If it sounds good, I'll listen. 15 years ago, I never would fathom me listening to Rae Sremmurd, Migos, Fivio, A Boogie, etc. I came up on the Nas, Big, Jay, Wu, Rakim, KRS etc so lyrics will always be important, but shyt not that serious no more.
 
Not changed as in the type, ive always leaned towards rappers who were more melodic in their cadences, but there's certain topic matters if a song covers I may just skip over it because it's been done 100x or I simply don't want to hear it.
 
my taste has expanded

I don't have any expectations


I try to keep it simple & listen for enjoyment, not to critique... I either like the song or not



so I got over 400 artists & 13,500 songs in my music library I've collected thru the yrs
 
I might listen to some suggestive themes like what Most rap songs have . But the killing every opp, choppas everywhere drill shit is really dead to me.

I am not Gentile so I don't need help with violent thoughts sometimes.
 
I still love and enjoy the music I grew up listening to from back in the day (early 90’s-00’s)…maybe even MORE now….I was just listening to 00’s Drake and I was like damn…thought he was corny but he was actually better back then

I can’t get into the newer artists from 2016-onwards and everything in pop became so popularized and fixated on that trap/drill sound since then..

2015 was probably the last year I can remember being excited about rap
 
Listening to guys talk about how they are up on it, a boss, a player, a major figure, a whatever..only to watch them get older, watch them behave, watch them tell how they were getting hoe’d during the time their were talking their biggest shit..

I can’t listen to 80 percent of the shit I used to listen to. I fall back to guys who have always been authentic to self, DJ Quik, Busta, LL, Q Tip, BG, Juve, ..but ion really even listen to rap like that anymore.
 
My taste hasn't changed to the extent that everyone I listen to has to be of similar age or lifestyle but I definitely have a lower threshold for certain topics.
 
aye lol

Ima keep it real


that time mf tried to kill me simply after a greeting in passing

"what's up bruh"

*2min later shots fired*



that overt shoot em up bang bang you niggas opps shit leaves a bad taste in my mouth :pause:
 
I used to listen to hip-hop for 75% bars/25% beats.

Over the years, that's leveled down to about 55/45.

I still care about lyrical ability, but now it's not a deal breaker on whether or not I can rock with someone, and it's paid off for the most part.
 
I'm the opposite of the threadstarter here. In my teenage years around the turn of the century i would gravitate toward the beat and accept whatever was being rapped on it. As long as the beat was gritty, had knock or some combination of the two i was with it. That's how the likes of Silkk da Shocker and Noreaga would make it into rotation.

At some point i would pay more attention to flows and cadence while still needing the beat to fit my tastes.

By the time i got to high school lyrics were focus (due to the slew of diss tracks being released) but i still couldn't overlook how the beats sounded.

Now i with my appreciation for lyricism i tend to check out music with more subdued production that i would have skipped in the past. Like early 90s Keith Murray or Wu Tang.
 
Side note for the ones that kind of cut back on listening to new rap, have ya gravitated to listening to other genres? Past couple of years I've been listening to blues, jazz, country, afrobeats, and soca. Rap just has more competition for my ears and that's the main reason I haven't really been listening to newer hip hop
 
My first love as far as music will always be hip hop and I pretty much have stuck with my favorites. Mostly 80s 90s and early 2000s. Sometimes I’ll listen to some more of the recent stuff but as I’ve gotten older I don’t listen as much. I’m more inclined to turn on some jazz or blues or rock music lately.
 
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