Rap's been ok, but the problem is rap also has this playpenning. Certain guys are making regular rap as they've always done historically, certain guys just are obvious fantasists and overly referential. Not even talking about the realms of authenticity (which occasionally is a real issue) but like... Quavo and 21 Savage are obviously overtly dedicated to specific strands of trying to sound like Gucci and you could make this argument for #67 and a lot of the Brixton road rap crews who are constantly weighted with #hashtags, not even so much as the old 'hashtag/punchline rap' style but like... Their whole lingo is very obvious oversaturated references to things Chief Keef, Drake or other people say. Every song references another song they've done before, or a catchphrase they've dropped. And the problem is people need the terminology, the hashtags to comprehend... #trap, #key, whatever.
There's something there, but I don't have the comprehension to parse out how to sift through the phenomena. I think we're in a weird period with rap where now they're overburdened with becoming projections. Not that Grime's Rap, but... the Skepta "That's Not Me" vid, and that whole aesthetic for him and other people was a very deliberate saddling with history/legacy and a need to sound like expectations/demands rather than make the music, fulfil the roles and insistence of 'no THIS is who you are' even if that audience might not truly know who these people are or what they're talking about, they just have this myopic internet picture, this screenshot view. They're not actually there yet.
That's the problem with a lot of music in general that everyone's been toying with right? The 'burden of history' and having access to it thanks to the internet. Its a lot harder to live in the moment when the library of Alexandria is always around the corner to undermine your feeling of possibility.