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Originally Posted by noisereductions
What you're saying is exactly what I was trying to say. When Illmatic dropped w/ 10 tracks and only one guest verse, Nas wasn't rushing to put out 3 more releases before Christmas that year. It was a different landscape. People kept that one record in rotation and in CONVERSATION for the next 24 months y'know?
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EXACTLY and this is the crux of the entire issue, artists don't seem to focusing on putting out masterpieces anymore with any particular sense of vision or purpose. Of course this is also totally understandable as rap and hip hop have for better or worse become this era's "pop music" so its not surprise to find rap lacking in substance. When rap beats are the new background music for TV shows and elevator music it tells you the decline of substance and vision in rap and hip hop.
Perhaps the genre itself has changed so much that the bulk of it is crap for mass consumption hence why none of us more artistically inclined music fans are particularly enjoying any of it..