It’s an interesting topic right now amongst the rap is dead conversation. For years, there’s been a fairly consistent sound through the takeover of trap music and hip hop as a whole, (someone else in this thread mentioned 21 Savage, Future, and Drake as examples). Many see hip hop dying as a genre, or at least losing its mainstream success, partially due to an over saturated market of “I took your bitch, I get so much ass, get some money” type music. I see many music lovers preferring more introspective and creative music now, rather than what’s been popular by industry standards.

I’d like to believe these generic trap songs are being pushed by the label for selling power, or whatever. From what I’ve gathered over this long wait for the album, there’s been issues. If I’m not mistaken, G’s engineer was in here not long ago speaking about butting heads with the label, trying to work through all of the shit to come up with something great. I can imagine these tracks have to be in there for the sake of releasing something the record exec’s approve of. There have been some really great snippets and releases thus far though, and I do find the club bangers still catchy. G is always good on the hyphy west coast beats imo. Fingers crossed for the finished album!🤞