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If you had told 15 year old me that in a dozen years you'd hate hip hop, I would have thought you were crazy

i grew up on hip hop. i was a typical Filipino kid growing up in the middle of inner city Los Angeles. first album I ever bought with my own money were Mos Def's Black on Both Sides and Talib Kweli's Train of Thought. From then on I listened to a lot of classic hip hop, 90s hardcore, 2000s underground and experimental rap. i wasn't a typical commercial rap fan who thought Eminem was the bees knees. i was a well-known regular on several hip hop forums (including the one on gfaqs). got into a lot of arguments with the "rap is crap" people.

but now? needless to say, i actively dislike pretty much any hip hop from the 2010s or so. but even the stuff I used to like, i never have the desire to listen to it. if I hear it playing somewhere, i'll somewhat enjoy it, mostly for the nostalgia, but i won't listen to it on my own.

what's weird is that there are plenty of people who were never never as big of a rap fan as I was yet still listen to plenty of rap today, while I've made a complete 180
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