More or less anybody that does not use autotune, can actually rap, rhyming is a bonus but I will take clever wordplay any time over that. You can keep the gangster nonsense, especially the "I'm rich" nonsense, as well and I do enjoy a good pisstake. While wordplay is vital then having a robot sing it can and likely will kill it for me... autotune can do some good in the world but the crank it until it distorts it and gives a kind of echo/dissonance effect I truly despise.
This leaves me with remarkably few choices if I ever delve into the modern rap charts. It also does not help that producing seems to be a forgotten art as well. That said I occasionally see end of year roundups and find myself saying "where was this?", none of them are small things either as they have properly shot videos and everything.
A bit further back now but I really do like binary star.
Issac mentioned Tyler the creator and while I can't say I like most of what he has done (pick a random track from any of his albums and there is a very good chance I won't much care for it) there are times where I think he is amazing.
This leaves me with remarkably few choices if I ever delve into the modern rap charts. It also does not help that producing seems to be a forgotten art as well. That said I occasionally see end of year roundups and find myself saying "where was this?", none of them are small things either as they have properly shot videos and everything.
A bit further back now but I really do like binary star.
Issac mentioned Tyler the creator and while I can't say I like most of what he has done (pick a random track from any of his albums and there is a very good chance I won't much care for it) there are times where I think he is amazing.
