Originally Posted by
dwai
very true, i don't know how old you are but I'm in my mid 30s and I can listen to anything really, from the Beatles, doors, pink Floyd, all the way up to Tupac, biggie, e40, Eminem, dre, but i think we can all agree that mumble rap has ruined the rap/hip hop genre/scene and I don't know if it'll ever recover
Eminem getting big must have been huge in Michigan when you grew up. I liked the first 2 albums and after that a few random songs. I remember Marshall Mathers LP as the first album with any crossover appeal with metal heads. Obv there was horrorcore before that i doubt the production really clicked.
When i grew up in the mid 90s the world wasn't as interconnected. Yo! MTV Raps was a thing. I think it aired before or after Headbangers Ball. Mainstream hip-hop was bastardized with R&B and on any given month there was maybe one decent song on day time rotation. That's with MTV Europe, no idea how it was on your side of the sea.
For the longest time with Hip-Hop there was 2 coasts and nothing in between for most people.
Weirdly here Tupac and Biggie dying weren't really that of big of thing. Fairly sure you're not supposed to say that anymore. From the west, NWA was huge and as such Eazy-E dying was big and more than a decade later Mac Dre is the one loss i remember from the Bay.
From the east i mostly liked Gang Star and MOP. And then obv Wu-Tang Clan. For us Biggie was in the Puffy camp and no one liked Puffy.
Anyway random ramblings. Today Hip-Hop is like half the pop chart and subculture went with the Rockabilly route of freezing time killing all variety/nuance from the music, clothes and the way they talk. Oversized headphones and empty backpacks.