Originally Posted by Notorious

There are good mainstream rappers just like there's terrible ones. It's been the same since rap was created.

There was never a time period when mainstream rap was perfect. Even in the 90's, when you had Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, Wu-Tang, etc. there was still the Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, Kris Kross, Sir Mix-A-Lot, 2 Live Crew, etc.