Also everyone's a GOAT but nobody's a GOAT by themselves.
Except for Tekashi, who's just bad and will never be good because he's never done anything that hasn't been done better by others.
I'm basically of two minds when it comes to Flocka. On the one hand what he did was in fact a gigantic paradigm shifter that realigned rap away from a stale, miserable period. The Jeezyfication of trap was a lifeless, bland style of music that produced a lot of terrible things and also led to the dark age of 'hipster rap' which is the immediate wake of Wayne. Cudi, Wale, J Koll, Drakk, etc. Dark, terrible times. There was an option away from generic struggle, swelling, "I GOT MONEY" anthems. Instead actual bold gesture became the thing, actual dread. Young Jeezy is the sound of vacuous success and chasing of dreams, he's a para-fascist non-talent. It's good that nobody ever listens to Jeezy anymore and that to my knowledge Jeezy has died and people parade around a corpse who pretends to read the newspaper and associate with people. Science is an incredible thing you know.
The problem with Flocka as well is what he destroyed in Atlanta, the "Futuristic" movement... a whole bunch of teenagers making happy rap, excommunicated overnight. Rap went hard masculine again as people demanded testosterone that echoes the Wagneria of Lex Luger and 808 Mafia and a bunch of those kids soon literally found themselves being beaten up by people a decade or so their seniors and it 'made sense'. Now we still live in the toxic swill of the after effects where the dread has just become a dead-vein search for that same hit, even though its no longer there... The music sounds decrepit mostly, almost as if its traded in its rushes for medicine to deal with hepititis or some other ailment as a result of constantly fixing for that roid surge. Dark plods of constipation, drum patterns that don't rush past you but instead pathetically dribble. 88th tier Zaytoven pastiches of his most childlike melodies.
IDK. Flocka feels terrible now for me.