My boomer ass thinks that good rap music ended somewhere around Illmatic or 36 Chambers, and I haven't really kept up too much since the late 90s.

In recent years I've enjoyed Pusha T's Daytona, Conway, some of the A.S.A.P. crew stuff and I dig Kendrick Lamar. I dig good flows and tracks that still have that boom bap. I don't really vibe with the mumbly shit.

Who's ruling these days?

I'm by no means expert on this topic, but Clipping. is "lit" and "slaps" and so on.

I'm not a big hip hop person in general but I like Danny Brown and Shabazz Palaces.

Examples of "mumbly shit?" Like the auto-tuned stuff? Some of that stuff has the best beats, IMO.

I mentioned this on PRF 1.0 but my favorite rap/trap/hip-hop has what I consider a psychedelic quality, beat-wise.

Sons of Kemet
Armand Hammer
Shabbaz Palaces
there really seems to be an explosion of interesting musical political hip-hop right now. This occurred last week

I'm honestly gravitating way more to Hip-Hop, Jazz, Afro-Beat and some of the latest fusions of the three made by folk a bit younger than me, who grew up with Hip Hop as the dominant cultural language, than non-PRF rock music.

enframed wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:43 am I mentioned this on PRF 1.0 but my favorite rap/trap/hip-hop has what I consider a psychedelic quality, beat-wise.

Hard to beat those two cLOUDDEAD albums for sure.

I second Danny Brown, his album XXX is fantastic.

Run the Jewels (their first record is a bit bumpy, but after that they've been consistently good)
Tyler, the Creator

The dancier, faggier, and less masculine trips my shit. Helps that they can spit, not swallow. Beats so tough.

^ What is this exactly? Sounds like Elephant Man but better.

This happened across my feed recently and I totally support it.