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Mr Lasastryke posted...

i don't think hip hop is as album-based now as it used to be. post malone's albums (to name one of the biggest modern hip hop stars) sound way more like "playlists" (like drake's more life) than albums. there's absolutely no reason why track #1 is #1, #2 is #2, etc.

edit: and i get that you said "under the mainstream surface" but uh... mainstream hip hop is also a part of hip hop. like, back in the day a tribe called quest was mainstream and their music was very album-based. you can't just say "oh mainstream hip hop doesn't count."

You need to compare like with like here, comparing ATCQ and Post is silly.

Kendrick, J. Cole, Future, and many other hugely popular rappers now are also heavily album- (or project-) oriented artists like Quest were.

If you're gonna go back to the early 90s, Post Malone is analogous to the likes of Vanilla Ice or Kriss Kross - and no one remembers their albums either.

Nothing has changed.

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