right?

21 savage, nba youngboy, lil cray, lud foe, etc.

they're bad at rapping because they don't care about it. it's a means to an end. they buy good beats (21 savage was buying metro and sonny digital beats before he got famous), they rap poorly over them, and they turn from dope boy to rock star (shoutout gucci). it's definitely a case of function over form and has no respect for the history but also it doesn't matter because it's a grip of fucking dope boys and not professional rappers with lofty artistic ambitions

but it is the death of the genre. this kind of sub mumble rap completely cancels out artists like kendrick and cole. in fact it's actively erasing their discographies and the discographies of all the 90s rap we love so much. we only have a few more months until all the good rap is gone and hip hop is just lil pump and wintertime all the time