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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Billy Woods hasn’t brought anything new to the table. I respect him as a traditionalist but I respect Future and his trap/mumble rap spin offs like lil yachty more as artists because they’re original, interesting, and fun (fresh). Future pioneered a genre. Billy Woods mimicked a genre.
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He's pretty upfront with his traditionalism, sure. I'll take recs for artists with similar stream-of-consciousness lyrics though.
As for modern day innovation, I'd say that the Odd Future crowd is progressing the genre in a way that I think will have a more sustainable impact on hip hop. Future's influence is definitely there, but I'm pretty sure that trap is going to become a cringily dated sound like 80s synth presets. Maybe there will be some serious game changers in the genre that can keep it from being stale that I'm not foreseeing though.