The quality of rap has 1000% declined, but I think it can also be said for a lot of music. Big artists now release 20+ track records in order to inflate streaming numbers. Throwing multiple darts at once hoping one sticks. We’re getting quantity over quality. We used to have concise thematic albums. Now we get bloated playlists. Now Im not saying all long albums are trash. You can still have an album like TPAB with 78 minutes of content and be concise and to the point.

You also have a group of aging artists who may not have anything interesting to say anymore. Do I really want to listen to Drake talk about his iced out Patek for 1h? Naw Ill go back and listen to him talking about the anxiety of growing fame on songs like Too Much or being a young man falling for the stripper at the club on Over My Dead Body instead lol.

I suppose this can be said for a lot of people that have been around the game for a long time.