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

[GOAT]

Been listening to more hip hop producers instrumental albums and less rappers.

I still love hip hop but am giving alot less fucks about what these retards wanna say.

 

[kwyj]

Good answers here.

I didn’t want to make the opening post too long but now it reads like I made sudden 180 in my taste.

I’ve always loved the southern classics, especially everything Dungeon Family. Also fucked heavy with Houston rappers like Z-ro and Trae.

Somehow I still always gravitated back to 90s and 00s New York rap. But now that type of sound is too heavy for me. Like I can’t imagine putting on something like Big L or Kool G or whatever I used to listen to back then.

These days I don’t really listen to music that doesn’t move me emotionally or make me move physically.

The best songs do both. Might sound gay but to me the best songs are the ones that make you want to dance with a bitch but also feel like maybe one day I could actually love someone. Or whatever “beautiful” feeling.

Alright I’ll stop now.

 

[Allah_U_Akbar]

2015 was probably the last year I can remember being excited about rap

For me, it was around 2005 (for music in general).
That’s when T-Pain, Pretty Ricky, D4L, Ying Yang Twins and a whole slew of bullshit started dominating the airwaves and I said to myself these new negros is for the birds.

There was a few good songs that came out after 2005, but not nearly as much as there used to be, as far as I’m concerned.

 

[Bradshaw]

Being 36 now I just stick to what I grew up on. I give the new guys a listen to see where Hip-Hop is now and I like some. The drill shit ain't my style I don't like the shoot 'em up bang bang shit. I grew up with doing anything harder than weed you were a crackhead. Now they praise functional junkies. Rap now is sing/rap and they're using autotune and not actually rapping. It's gotten more artistic which is cool, but some of the artist are lazy and chasing a sound that other artists are doing no one is really standing out.

 

[Eyerone]

my tastes haven’t changed for real. I like the same type of rap I’ve always liked; lyrical shit. You know? Shit that makes sense and takes some form of skill? I’m not on the hunt for the next great rapper; if I find them, I find them. I am not downgrading and listening to dumb shit, dunno what the fuck y’all niggas on with the way some of y’all describe how yalls tastes have devolved rap wise.

 

[MorganFreemanKing]

For me, it was around 2005 (for music in general).
That’s when T-Pain, Pretty Ricky, D4L, Ying Yang Twins and a whole slew of bullshit started dominating the airwaves and I said to myself these new negros is for the birds.

There was a few good songs that came out after 2005, but not nearly as much as there used to be, as far as I’m concerned.

2004 was definitely my "look for it" year. Radio was definitely pushing mostly "dumb it down" stuff but using the internet was becoming a better way to listen to music. Woulda never heard T.I. vs Lil Flip on 106 and Park. Those Dipset mixtapes didn't hit the radio everywhere. But i sure as hell couldn't escape "White Tee" and whatever Crime Mob was doin

 

[dodge]

Being 36 now I just stick to what I grew up on. I give the new guys a listen to see where Hip-Hop is now and I like some. The drill shit ain't my style I don't like the shoot 'em up bang bang shit. I grew up with doing anything harder than weed you were a crackhead. Now they praise functional junkies. Rap now is sing/rap and they're using autotune and not actually rapping. It's gotten more artistic which is cool, but some of the artist are lazy and chasing a sound that other artists are doing no one is really standing out.

 

[dodge]

For me, it was around 2005 (for music in general).
That’s when T-Pain, Pretty Ricky, D4L, Ying Yang Twins and a whole slew of bullshit started dominating the airwaves and I said to myself these new negros is for the birds.

There was a few good songs that came out after 2005, but not nearly as much as there used to be, as far as I’m concerned.

The ringtone era took over after 2005….I definitely remember those “snap ya fangaz” days

But acts like TI, 50 Cent, Kanye, Nas, the return of Jay-Z and Lil Wayne still had me “looking out” in the 00’s..

Literally after 2015 when niggas like Young Thug, Lil Yachty and Rich Homie Quan came out…..I LOST INTEREST IN EVERYTHING

Not even Kanye or Jay-Z gets me excited anymore…my ears have grown dull

To Pimp A Butterfly put a spark in me but not enough to give me something I can go on and on about

Truthfully I believe the over-accessibility of music plays a large part in why rap is no longer exciting to me

 

[Nicky dimes]

Me and my friends about 32. Some of them listen to the shit out now just so they stay hip knowing that shit is trash. Their excuse is that I’m being the typical older guy saying they don’t know shit about music. I just think our shit was way better

 

[Mod_Ro]

The ringtone era took over after 2005….I definitely remember those “snap ya fangaz” days

But acts like TI, 50 Cent, Kanye, Nas, the return of Jay-Z and Lil Wayne still had me “looking out” in the 00’s..

Literally after 2015 when niggas like Young Thug, Lil Yachty and Rich Homie Quan came out…..I LOST INTEREST IN EVERYTHING

Not even Kanye or Jay-Z gets me excited anymore…my ears have grown dull

To Pimp A Butterfly put a spark in me but not enough to give me something I can go on and on about

Truthfully I believe the over-accessibility of music plays a large part in why rap is no longer exciting to me

Cosign every damn thing!

 

[AZTG]

My taste is stuck at 23.

I still listen to hip hop more than any other genre, but if it wasnt in my rotation at 23, it aint on my rotation now.

I listen to new shit from artists that were out then, and rarely ever a new artist that came out after.

Meaning im a decade behind on new sounds.

Im cool with that though.

Proudly washed.

 

[AZTG]

Ill also say though, music in general aint that important to me at this age.

The times were there always had to be music on is kind of dead to me. I like silence and podcasts just as much as I like music now.

Some days i just wanna be left alone with my thoughts. Some days I wanna catch up on podcasts. And some days ill play some music.

The days of always needing something to play kind of went away

 

[Al G. Rhythm]

I don’t think my taste has changed at all

I just think there’s way less music that I want to listen to now

 

[BlackRain]

Good answers in here. Dying laughing at music that makes you want to dance with a woman being "gay".

 

[Old Man Cain]

I try not to be a purest snob. I'll give these you g niggas a listen (99% of them are trash tho); but I still will give a listen.

Like I would normally listen to a nigga like 600 Breezy but I heard his new joint and homie actually got bars.

I also have chilled on ultra violent hip-hop because I've seen or seeing what's it's doing/done too our youth and community.

 

[Word....Life]

I’m A LOT more diverse in tha shit I listen to now…I mean growing up in tha 90’s on purely East Coast music I would have never listened to some of tha shit I listen to now…there was a time in tha 90’s where tha only albums I had that weren’t from NY/NJ were Resurrection, 93’ til Infinity, The Chronic, Doggystyle, Southernplayalistic…, ATLiens and Soul Food…that was it

Now I still like my East Coast music but I would have missed out on some of my newer favorites like K Dot and TDE, K.R.I.T., JID and EarthGang…

I’d like to think I still would have listened to them because they are in my opinion in my lane on “lyricism/musical style” but I was sooo biased I might not have lol

 

[Playmaker88]

My shit never changed...

I could rock Digable Planets to Onyx born after 85 there is a 95% chance I havent heard your shit on purpose I fuck with Joey Badass and Tobe Kendrick as far as after 85 goes its about the lyrics/respect for the craft for me

 

[Al G. Rhythm]

Obviously you would listen to more rappers from 2005 on than you did prior since regional music started de materializing with the internet being more intertwined with hip hop as the years went on

some of y’all swear y’all getting more introspective and open in your later years when the accessibility just grew lol

 

[dodge]

Obviously you would listen to more rappers from 2005 on than you did prior since regional music started de materializing with the internet being more intertwined with hip hop as the years went on

some of y’all swear y’all getting more introspective and open in your later years when the accessibility just grew lol

Yeah but the shit got TOO accessible…there’s no “standard” anymore

Rap has solely focused on “clout/image” than a musical, lyrical skillset

There was a time when as an MC…you had to be able to do EVERYTHING to truly be acknowledged…whether it was battling, freestyling, and of course knowing how to write a hit song with a great hook. If you knew how to do it all you always had support

Being a producer has now been copy and paste…and the DJ is dead

At least niggas still dance…I never was against dance-rap lol

 

[Breezy_Kilroy]

TM 101 is one of my favorite albums ever.

Know damn near every song word for word.
And I still love it but now I can only listen to music in that category in small doses.

I have a limit on how many times I can hear a nigga say he's gonna kill another nigga.

I've always been into r&b, jazz, gospel etc since I was young it's just in my nature but now I really lean into those generes heavy. I don't understand how cats can and will listen to a rapper like pooh shiesty all day.