I hate mumble rap. I can understand how people enjoy a lot of genres I'm not a fan of, but I don't understand how people can enjoy mumble rap. And I'm not talking about the beat, rather how people enjoy some dude rambling on about some stupid shit that no one understands anyways.
Great lyricism should always be important in hip hop, while with most mumble rap (all mumble rap I've heard atleast) talk about the same shit: drugs, money and hoes. They sound like they are trying to speak some foreign lanuage. Some mainstream mumblerappers also disrespect Hip-Hop legends and all the good values and elements of Hip-Hop. I think mumble rap shouldn't even be classified as Hip-Hop, but rather as a genre of it's own.
I'm interested to see if anyone is able to change my mind on this.
Thanks in advance.
I think the issue is not mumbling though. Can you really say that desiigner's panda is less deep than wiz khalifa's black & yellow or roll up? Or that anything by pitbull is actually hip hop? Or that anyone is less hip hop than kreayshawn?
There has always been shitty pop rap, and there probably always will be. Within that, mumbling is a new trend, but mumbling doesn't make them bad, they're bad to start with.
Before mumble rap, a couple years ago, it was autotune. That was a huge deal in hip hop. Autotune was cool for 2 minutes and then everyone was shitting on it just as hard as they are on mumble rap right now. It was the end of real music, etc. Most of those autotune rappers were making the same crappy unlyrical shit. Now I can't name any of those guys. don't even remember. and it was less than 10 years ago.
The thing is, nowadays if you throw some autotune on a track, nobody cares. The fad is over, and decent rappers can get away with using a bit of it as a stylistic choice and nobody minds because we all know they have other talents and won't use this shit on every song, and the track is deeper than some fad.
Mumble is going to be like that. 5-10 years from now, nobody will give a shit if you mumble your way through a verse. J Cole or Kendrick will drop a couple mumbley tracks on their 10th album that are kinda nostalgic of the mumbledays, but still full of lyricism, and we'll all love it.
TL;DR: we hate mumble because it's the current fad among the shit rappers, who will always exist. In a few years good artists will be able to use a bit of mumble as a stylistic choice and it won't be a big deal.