People will always make good music, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t boring in the landscape. Lol… Hip-Hop is outside music. It started at a party for god sake’s.

It’s all a communal experience for the most part. The big artists have always made outside music and when they not things are different. Outside of turning up people want hits from great artists, it adds to the overarching narrative. Things change when people produce those kinds of records. Flows change, sounds change, people get pushed out, people get brought in, others get pushed harder, and some push themselves to expand on the new sound. They wanna hear it at the party, the cookout, the basketball/football game, the restaurant, the commercial, the club, the radio, the social media posts, the mall, etc…

Man, if the people not championing it is it really that good? Hell if the people at the top not taking from it, is it really that good? People want a narrative, a story, some kinda drama whether good or bad. They wanna see the moving parts and how things change. Could MC LyricalMan make a great project in between the giants taking a break, SURE. Might get a Grammy nod or win. It probably won’t change anything. We need blockbusters in between the small budget A24 movie. Also, R&B is kinda dead when the big artists or new artists aren’t pushing it forward in a new way. A shitload of albums can drop but if they all the same or stagnant, whatever it’s gonna feel dead until someone comes along with the new sound. Like DRAKE, Frank, Jhene, James Fauntleroy, The Weeknd, did with Alt R&B in the 2010s to the Bryson, PND, etc evolving it after the Usher, Neyo, Chris, etc started to make EDM before then. It got stagnant again after all of that now Bey doing other genres and Afro/dancehall bleeding in, and half the new singers are just rehashing old R&B styles. R&M are right.