I don’t listen to rap a lot. That being said one of my favourite albums is Illmatic by Nas. I like that it sounds simpler whereas a lot of new music sounds overproduced. Out of the newer stuff, the ones I liked recently was UNLOCKED by Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats, and The Forever Story by JID. Also I think Kendrick Lamar is overrated.
Linkin Park is one of my favourite groups and Mike Shinoda is the rapper so that counts too. Rap fused with rock is something I like a lot but sadly it did not catch on.
Illmatic is great, maybe the best hiphop album of all time. It sucks to say but for that kind of rap, the rawness and street vibe it carries, it’s almost for the better that the artists are at a point in life where they are still struggling. You unfortunately can’t make an album like that when you have already made three big albums and live in a mansion in LA. It’s just a shame that people have to live through hell to be able to make it.
Strangely I think they are in some aspects underrated. “90s kids” would have listened to them a lot but by the time they would come of age Linkin Park were reduced to a meme angsty band. Their favourite work of mine is A Thousand Suns which has very lukewarm ratings if you look here and here. The other favourite of mine by them is REANIMATION which people seem to just not know about. But to most people Linkin Park starts with Hybrid Theory and ends with Meteora.
I don’t listen to rap a lot. That being said one of my favourite albums is Illmatic by Nas. I like that it sounds simpler whereas a lot of new music sounds overproduced. Out of the newer stuff, the ones I liked recently was UNLOCKED by Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats, and The Forever Story by JID. Also I think Kendrick Lamar is overrated.
Linkin Park is one of my favourite groups and Mike Shinoda is the rapper so that counts too. Rap fused with rock is something I like a lot but sadly it did not catch on.
Illmatic is great, maybe the best hiphop album of all time. It sucks to say but for that kind of rap, the rawness and street vibe it carries, it’s almost for the better that the artists are at a point in life where they are still struggling. You unfortunately can’t make an album like that when you have already made three big albums and live in a mansion in LA. It’s just a shame that people have to live through hell to be able to make it.
Linkin park is great, I love nu-metal.
Strangely I think they are in some aspects underrated. “90s kids” would have listened to them a lot but by the time they would come of age Linkin Park were reduced to a meme angsty band. Their favourite work of mine is A Thousand Suns which has very lukewarm ratings if you look here and here. The other favourite of mine by them is REANIMATION which people seem to just not know about. But to most people Linkin Park starts with Hybrid Theory and ends with Meteora.
I mostly like the early stuff, but I include reanimation in that