Convince me I should keep checking sites like HHDX, La Leakers to check for new hip hop music

After blowing off all the 2000s era back packers saying hip hop died March 1997, I am really losing interest in the hip hop game today.  After hearing nothing but DJ Mustard and Young Thug on mainstream radio, is it really worth checking for "diamond in the rough" artists to keep the movement alive??  It's sad that although young guys like KRIT, Cole, etc make efforts to put out halfway decent music, the masses don't want to hear it.  Who's to blame for this?  The rap game is just as weak as the NBA East!  Do you blame the radio stations, record execs?  I guess one benefit to losing interest in most of these clowns is that I'm going back and listening to a lot of good stuff from the 90's and before I skipped over, especially the lesser known R&B guys

i blame the ppl that support that type of music. its the same new generation kids that wear skin tight pants, fruity designs and colors that don't match, and all they do is sit on social media and make vines and tweet. those kids support this garbage and that's why labels and execs search for that crap. hence radio supporting them and so on. 

obviously we still have good music being put out but on a much smaller scale and its the ppl like us that support it but not the mass majority 

For real, though, bruh?

Go ahead and lose interest.

It's not even worth keeping up with.

You already know who to follow: KRIT, Curren$y, Dom Kennedy, Flatbush Zombies, Action Bronson, TDE, etc.

If I were you I would stop being "on the hunt for that new interesting sound" because it's moved past you and I.

Sometimes I feel like those dudes who are still rocking NBA jeans and Avirex jackets and Timbs and a du rag underneath my pinwheel fitted, wishing things went back to that authentic sound.

In the early 2000's, everybody was kinda wishing it would go back to the 90's, then things started going that way, but with the new generation's ideals and values injected into the 90's motif's. The cats who were teens and 20's in the 90's DID NOT LIKE THAT because there's a huge generational gap there, and IMO handled things completely wrong with Lord Jamar at the forefront. As a result, the new generation kind of (rightfully) went "**** ya'll", stopped chasing that artistic authenticity that made so many people go back to 90's hip hop, and went all in with the eccentricity and extraness and need for attention over quality of the art itself. There was a moment in hip hop of organic art that spawned Wale, Cudi, Drake, J Cole, TDE, ASAP, etc., that I'm starting to worry has already passed.

this is the 345th of this kind this year. who cares man? if y'all don't like what you

hear go find something you do. i do NOT listen to the radio. that's what iPods/mp3

players were made for. i listen to what i want when i want and pay 0 attention to

the garbage.

Mustard goes hard though...


90% of rap is whack... But Knowledge pretty much hit the nail on the head of who I feel like is worth listening to outside of FBZ, I don't **** with them... I actually like Mustard and YG... Also Freddie Gibbs...

I don't even check sites like those. Never did...

I stick to what I know. **** searching for a fresh new sound. I listen to what and who I like and let "new" fall in my lap. If I come up on something new, then cool. If not, oh well..

All new

deereebs said:

After blowing off all the 2000s era back packers saying hip hop died March 1997, I am really losing interest in the hip hop game today.  After hearing nothing but DJ Mustard and Young Thug on mainstream radio, is it really worth checking for "diamond in the rough" artists to keep the movement alive??  It's sad that although young guys like KRIT, Cole, etc make efforts to put out halfway decent music, the masses don't want to hear it.  Who's to blame for this?  The rap game is just as weak as the NBA East!  Do you blame the radio stations, record execs?  I guess one benefit to losing interest in most of these clowns is that I'm going back and listening to a lot of good stuff from the 90's and before I skipped over, especially the lesser known R&B guys

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I agree that rap is trash......BUT

J Cole is respected by the masses, they play him on the radio all the time.

and KRIT is weak as hell. Flame away

Not even going to waste time on the KRIT slander.


It is what it is.

I feel you OP. I keep trying to find something to like when it comes to what seems to be "hot". I literally can't listen to Migo's or Young Thug or lil durk or whatever else. I try...like i want to find something to like...and im not gonna lie some of the stuff is hype music and i get it...but there is 0 substance to any of it.

The last new artist i remember liking to a point of wanting to hear full collections is Kevin Gates and Joey Bad***. But i don't really consider them a diamond in the rough.

And my jimmies get slightly rustled at Krit slander because to me homie is undefeated. He dropped 3 perfect mixtapes. Three basically Free Albums. They were full albums...calling them mixtapes is doing them a disservice. Can't tell me nothing about that. But i find myself listening to more indie rock now a days anyway. There is quality to be found in that genre currently.

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Sometimes I feel like those dudes who are still rocking NBA jeans and Avirex jackets and Timbs and a du rag underneath my pinwheel fitted, wishing things went back to that authentic sound.

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He basically feels like Ninjahood.

Op says rap is whack but then proceeds to say j cole is good lol I'm done