Yet some alluring new generation of MCs always seems to come along to extend the legacy. It’s becoming tougher and tougher to wring anything new out of the components, to find original voices. Truthfully, the ATL-centered trap sound - stone-skipping hi-hats, death-rattle sub-bass, slow BPMs, John Carpenter synths - is getting decidedly more tired, and it’s becoming harder to ignore that fact. People look to Atlanta for new music, and tapes by most of these guys will show up on “Most Downloaded” ranking on your favorite mixtape aggregator sites. Then, there’s an extended universe of functional but unremarkable trap rappers who wouldn’t exist in their current form with mid-00s hometown pioneers Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy, and (to a lesser extent) T.I. There is almost an oversaturation of prominent ATLiens - Rich Homie Quan, Migos, iLoveMakonnen and beyond. Today, the hip-hop figureheads of the city, and the rappers setting the trends and forwarding the genre, are Future and Young Thug.
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