>or just a perfection of a particular sound.
>
>Rick Ross "Deeper Than Rap" might be my last personal classic.
> And that wasn't him reinventing the wheel as much as it was
>him just honing in on fleshing out that JL/Runners/Inkredibles
>audio landscape.
>
>He's made dope albums and mixtapes after that, but to me, that
>was when the recipe came together to near perfection. It was
>a new high without a new sound.

I think all "new" things must contain an air of familiarity

>
>From then til now, we've had various artists try to separate
>themselves from the pack (most have been content to do what
>everyone else is doing lol). But I honestly can't of anything
>that's really made me tap on a new vein.

I think the warp tour rap of the new generation is definitely a "new vein". Whether you like it or not is something else but you have emo-rap now so far along that it can reach back to emo-rock for vocal styles and cues.

I do wish we would see a sonic leap forward though. I am not sure where it would come from but I'd love to see sonics just be revolutionized.