Addressing The Worst Style of Hip-Hop.
Can we finally admit that this new style of Eminem-influenced hip-hop is the worst form of hip-hop. You know the rap style I’m talking about. Fast bars, quadruple syllables, and vomit-inducing wordplay that ultimately makes anyone listening roll their eyes because it has less substance than a white man attempting to play “Devil’s advocate.”
The unfortunate part about this style is that it's not bad. it’s just whenever this style is at use, if broken down lyric for lyric, artists are saying absolutely nothing. Let's use Eminem’s song “Godzilla” as an example. In this song, Em attempts to break the lyrical sound barrier by using this style. In theory, what he accomplishes is impressive, but if broken down, lyrics such as “I'm undebatable, I'm unavoidable, I'm unevadable.” Come across as nonsensical fillers.
And while Eminem is the best at this style currently, Hip-hop currently has a million copycat versions of him that perform this style tremendously worse than the Detroit emcee.
Rappers who emulate this style are willing to put their pens to the pad and only write incoherently about how their pen is to the pad, with literally nothing else at play. They’re the angst teenagers of rap, with their main issue with music revolving around everyone else’s incompetence but their own.
In essence, this style developed as a counter for mumble rapping, but one has to admit, mumble rappers offer a better sound and better musical influence because they’re able to grasp the ear with their content and provide a digestible experience with their music.
But addressing the biggest issue with this style is that it ultimately comes across as plain old corny. It's weak. It's unnecessary lyrical masturbation with hip-hop purist-esk lameness. This style comes across with a holier than thou approach but off-brand execution. From its whining about the style of mumble-rappers to its obnoxious hatred of club-bangers, this style's only subject matter is typically at the expense of others.
One of my issues with this style is that it neglects the basics of hip-hop and rap, which is speaking your truth. In my opinion, hip-hop is all about the substance in the subject matter. It's about the truth spoken by the artist. So when an artist uses this style and speaks nonsense, one can only see this as nothing more than synthetic hip-hop, an off-brand carbon copy of what hip-hop should be. Hip-hop is about your truth, so words spewed with no truth spoken should not be called hip-hop, instead ramblings of a mad-person.
I believe this style of rapping should treat this as what it is, a mockery of the art of hip-hop and rap music. This style of rap is a parody, and I believe it's time we address this tired, and stale attempt at trash lyricism. It's time to get rid of it and never address it again.
