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Originally Posted by Soulflower
No because there was still innovative things being contributed to rap and hip hop in the 80's.
Also, I was specifically referring to gangsta rap and the albums you used as examples when I was referring to these "genres" gangsta rap and the sub genres of gangsta rap that was what I was referring to not "rap music itself"
Lastly, as I mentioned in my previous posts I agree there probably were more creative experimentation in the 90s with certain concepts in rap BUT that still does not make it necessarily original or innovative especially when in the 80's it was already done even if it was on a basic level.
For example, "The Chronic" while good and made an impact in popularizing gangsta rap it is not innovative for the genre. How can this album be innovative when few years prior "Staight Outta Compton" innovated gangsta rap and influenced The Chronic.
You see my point?
Popularizing a genre and innovating something from scratch are two different things.
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no, i really don't see your point. straight outta compton sounds nothing like the chronic. straight outta compton honestly sounds as much like public enemy as it does death row era g-funk. the style of production on the chronic was groundbreaking for its time and really marked a shift in the sound of west coast rap in general. so i don't get how you can say there's nothing original or innovative there. you're basically saying that taking a style and experimenting with it and tweaking it to turn it into a distinct sound is not innovation, when to me that is precisely what innovation means.