Gangsta rap
Going further, Noah Callahan-Bever, chief content officer and editor-in-chief for "Complex Media", marked September 11, 2007: "The Day Kanye West Killed Gangsta Rap". In a retrospective, Lawrence Burney of "Noisey" expands on this notion by asserting that the event caused the more aggressive forms of rap music to undergo an evolution. He continued writing, "Gangsta rap, street music, and the like have yet to recover from that showdown, as only two albums of the sort have gone platinum in the 2010s—Kevin Gates' "Islah" and Meek Mill's "Dreams Worth More Than Money"—If anything, street music has also made a shift since Kanye began to peal back more layers of himself on "Graduation"; 50's whole get up was about being an indestructible, emotionless robot. Now, what connects fans to artists like Gates and Meek is that they aren't afraid to rhythmically cry about lost loves ones and the price of fame". Likewise, "Billboard" wrote, "In 2007, Kanye West trumped 50 Cent in an epic sales battle, in which his opus "Graduation" trounced "Curtis" by several hundred thousand copies. Ye's emotive raps on "Graduation", intertwined with his evolution on the production side, inspired a new wave of MCs to take notes. .. While gangsta rap still has a seat in the ever-expanding classroom of hip-hop, vulnerability and experimentation now serve as the leading candidates in creating your prototypical MC. Because of songs like 'I Wonder', 'Flashing Lights' and 'Stronger'", the hip-hop artists of today "cling on to Kanye's indomitable body of work like a go-to study guide". The competition between 50 Cent and West, when the two released their studio albums on the same day, was penultimate in a series of articles that lists fifty key events in the history of R&amp;B and hip-hop music, written by Rosie Swash of "The Guardian". Swash wrote that it "highlighted the diverging facets of hip-hop in the last decade; the former was gangsta rap for the noughties, while West was the thinking man's alternative".