Hip-Hop Has Something for Everyone

The past week has been great for Hip-Hop, with Czarface Meets Metal Face and U-God’s Venom dropping in the span of a couple days. Both are great projects that should definitely hit a sweet spot for anyone who hasn’t been satisfied with the current state of the genre.

Czarface Meets Metal Face is probably the most fun project I’ve ever listened to. The beats and bars were going to be great regardless with Mf Doom, 7L, Esoteric, and Inspectah Deck working together. But the skits and interaction between characters put it on another level. They were able to turn the music we love into an audible presentation of Saturday morning cartoons that’s very hard not to enjoy.

Earlier this week U-God spoke about his new project, his book Raw, the relationships within Wu-Tang, and the state of Hip-Hop in an interview with Peter Rosenberg on Hot 97 . He emphasized his appreciation for this generation of rappers’ — specifically naming Lil Uzi Vert as a favorite — willingness to evolve their sound and have fun. U-God’s own drive to evolve his style and sound is evident throughout Venom.

I’m not really one to trash the new generation of Hip-Hop — which happens to be my own — but I can definitely understand those who do. There’s fun things going on musically and culturally within Hip-Hop but there are fans who feel that the content, skill, and character aren’t at the level that they should be. Staged Instagram videos and clowning on social media may not really help the case, but it’s the way the culture has developed.

This week in Hip-Hop was just an example that the genre has something for all fans. Whether you love Tekashi 6ix9ine’s antics on social media or you hate them, if you say today’s Hip-Hop has nothing for you then you’re just not looking hard enough.