This is going to sound crazy, but... every person who complains about current hip hop is convicting and exposing themselves... every single time. How? Because there is so much good music and talent out there, often with upcoming artists. Most of their music you can find on streaming, BANDCAMP, Youtube, etc, which means YOU are being controlled by what the industry puts out, because THAT'S your go-to.

In the 80s/90s era, people like myself would rely on tapes and mixtapes, CDs from friends, about new music. And then we would become the "ads" for what's hot. DJs in local clubs and parties would play new music. Today, NOTHING CHANGED but the efforts of the people complaining. You can literally search ANY GENRE and find new and good music. But YOU don't. You want to be FED, but don't want to be a FEEDER. And then you wanna sound "profound" and act like good music just died out. Man, fuck off with that. 

I get it. It's too convicting to say "I don't want to have to search for music." And that's fine. But you can't say good music is dead. Just say "the IMMEDIATE SPOON-FEEDING systems I'm used to getting my good music from are not feeding me what I want." Much more accurate statement, because, yes, radio stations and TV programs that would otherwise play more quality hip hop and R&B are more corporate and money-driven, and may indeed have an agenda to pump low-quality music.

And what's even worse is, you'll try to sell it to make other people agree with you, like others don't have the intelligence and the direct, immediate experience with quality music to actually refute everything you're saying. But keep selling it. *insert eye-roll*

And if you really peel back the bullshit layers of your position, you're really admitting that not only are you lazy, but you don't even have your own solid PERSONAL position on what good music is; rather, you need a collective consensus to agree with you that something is bad or good... thriving or dead. God forbid you actually find new talent that doesn't have popularity yet, post and share their music, and they catch a break off of you. Nope. 

I'll end here, because I really can keep going. But I figure if I make a place to shut the fuck up, it might inspire you to do that same.