Also wanted to add that I keep lo-fi on at my house constantly at a low volume just to set the mood

Also there aren't only American artists, listen to artists from different countries and you'll find a lot of great stuff, some of them even rap in English. I'm biased towards the French scene myself but there's loads.

Griselda is top tier boom bap👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 The Butcher Comin!

From my other comment

Pretty much all of Griselda and the dozen or so artists under their umbrella. Billy Woods & the rest of the Backwoodz Studios group are incredibly boom-bap inspired, not to mention all the "lofi" artists rn who are pretty much just old school rap. Turn off the radio and stop listening to algorithm-created Playlists and you'll realize that there are still active artists in pretty much any subgenre of music you can think of

This is also ignoring The Alchemist and all of the artists he works with, who's basically doing what El-P did in the early 2000s

The good stuff is still out there. You just have to know where to find it. Commercial radio and things like that are driven by what the younger generation want to hear, which is fine for them but it's just not my thing. Im into rap that has substance and lyrical content

Yeah, see my other comments. Plenty of new artists in the past couple years have come up with a old school/classic hip hop sound