hip-hop eviscerated the spiritual component of black music. the experience in and of all angles. mostly by big contribution of shortsighted gatekeepers. maybe it's a inferiority complex where the recent highly visible artists can't relate to studied musical talents. i never understood why you can find so much bomb ass talent on YouTube and yet they're nowhere to be found in the popular landscape. it's like there are or is no more music scouting going on or the know how to identify or to collaborate..... Michael Jackson reached out to Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton and then the world got "Thriller". hiphop gatekeepers seem to have lost connection with all black experiences and they'll burn it down to the ground with the one-track mentality of keeping everything vulgar, drugs, confrontation, gunplay, money and exhibition. it's been all degenerative wordplay that has abandoned black soul.
the vast majority of current charting/streaming artists haven't been listening and maybe that was, in part their parents fault