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Originally Posted by louder
Interestingly, there was a time that I liked 50 Cent to the point where I legitimately bumped his music quite a bit. I also had a Rick Ross phase, a Tyler phase and probably a bunch of other weird phases. Now I can hardly bring myself to enjoy their music. I respect Tyler a bit more, because he has some production skills, but meh.
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Me too! Look thorough these very pages we've been typing on for the past 6 years and you'll see! We have all been there bro (by "all" I basically just mean you, me and NR, and I'm generalizing that to "most" adult hip-hop fans).
When I first came onto this board officially and stoped lurking behind my girlfriend's account, I was ALL ABOUT Tyler and OF. Now, I can't imagine a scenario where I'd listen to an OF project. Only Frank Ocean and to a much lesser extent Earl Sweatshirt have maintained my interest.
Same with the others. Mastermind was an album I was really looking forward to, but after hearing it a bit, I realized that "Sanctified" was the only really great track, and it was great because it was basically a Kanye track with a Ross feature. He's a sad old fuck, king of a wasteland empire where Wale and Meek Mill are his hottest commodities (hotter than Ross himself). He trades in basic ass shit that I have no patience for anymore.
When I first got back into hip-hop, I bought and listened to everything I could get my hands on for a while. I bumped 50 constantly for a while in like '07. Just constantly. But he had his time and now he's basically just a ghost tied to a dead era. No legacy there.
Hip-hop has to have some musical ingenuity to it for me to maintain interest. I'm no longer compelled to listen to the violent shit, and I no longer get excited when I hear a new rapper who can rap. Lots of people can rap. There needs to be some vision, some personality, something really powerful about the music and the experience of listening to it. Dropping bars or saying weird shit isn't good enough anymore. My money and time are too valuable and scant to be wasted on shit that nobody will remember in two years.