Imho, poorly pronouncing mistimed and out of key lyrics with a heavy out of tune autotune effect recorded bad with room noise over a couple random loops that copy every single song and tutorial is objectively not as good as clever, well timed, well performed and recorded and individual music which isn't a just copying the same thing 50,000 times.
Music is getting worse
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Imho, poorly pronouncing mistimed and out of key lyrics with a heavy out of tune autotune effect recorded bad with room noise over a couple random loops that copy every single song and tutorial is objectively not as good as clever, well timed, well performed and recorded and individual music which isn't a just copying the same thing 50,000 times.
I disagree but with a caveat. I don't think production and beat making has suffered much. Trap beats aren't generally my thing, but I think with the right vocals (especially since I'm a big fan of double time chopping) they have their place.
What I see, at least in hip hop, that has stagnated significantly is in the vocal performances themselves. I'm pretty sure I said it when I first jumped into this thread, I started out making music by being a rapper, and to me bars are the biggest thing and a dope beat is a close second. I'm sick of hearing entire song length triplet bars. That in particular makes every song sound exactly the same as the one before it. Part of what makes vocals great is switching up the flow. I'm also tired of not being able to understand a single word the artist says, and even if they are clear they all talk about the same shit. It's like nobody has ideas anymore. The point I've tried to make is along the same lines you did where there's plenty of good music that just don't get views, but at the end of the day nobody except me wants to do this shit for free. All of the money is being pushed towards substandard artists who arent able to even visualize the candle let alone hold it comparing to the people who came before them and were also massively successful. Hip hop became less about what you're saying and more about the vibe.
I'm pretty sure I also mentioned that hip hop isn't dead, but it also has something that most other genres don't. The people making all the money are not putting out music half as good as the people who arent. Hip hop went pop and as such suffers from the same problems pop music has. It's all repetitive low effort shit meant to make money fast. It's become Mcdonalds.
@iDeaLoGiK boom bap is having a little resurgence, I hope it lasts. My current goal is to make some beats so fucking dope that some of my favourite emcees will want to jump on them. Just hope I dont have to sell testicles to make it happen as I only have 2 of them.
Not to toot your horn, god forbid but your beats are definitely good enough to get those placements. It's just that damn luck thing.
Im on instagram adding every hip hop motherfucker there is, going to try and get my networking game up, like the old days of myspace