Modern hiphop is all about negativity TMBR

I started with rap and hiphop in 1994 when I was 14 and my parents bought me satellite TV dish for birthday.

Wow, it was amazing! Stuff like Public Enemy was coming to my speakers. KRS One. Tribe Called Quest. Ice T. Ice Cube. X-Clan. I heard Grandmaster Flash "The Message" - while it was released in 1982, it still sounded fresh and meaningful to a novice ear.

More radical stuff from Tupac, Wu Tang, Notorious BIG, Nas. Who was the first to overdo with the n-word? Hard to tell - probably, NWA, Ice Cube, and if you remember, they still bleeped it on MTV :) Not on European channels from where I from.

(The taboo for n-word and f-word had already subsided by late-90s).

Now, today if I bump into what an average person listens on Periscope while driving. It feels like same one song

"I fucked my whore, I smoked some weed, I sold some dope" (repeat x 5 times) "We smoke, we lit, I'm stoned, I'm so fucked up" "Nigga nigga bitch bitch fuck fuck nigga nigga) (repeat x 8 times)

Its funny how it degraded over the years.

Did you notice? TMBR

Not trying to be grumpy, just an observation .... and some confirmation bias :)