The 2020s are GREAT For Music (fight me if you don't agree)

It's easy to get caught in the past and not look to the future, especially when it comes to music. I've been guilty of this myself...but music here in the 2020s is changing my mind. I think 2020s music is pretty fantastic overall, and while there is a lot of empty, soulless stuff out there, there are also some great new artists emerging here in the 2020s. There are also a lot of more established artists going to the next level here in the 2020s, and even in a few cases, there are 80s, 90s and 2000s artists that are having stunning resurgences in the '20s! Come with me as I talk about 2020s music output from artists like Magdalena Bay, Nas, Chat Pile, J.I.D., The Cure, Charli XCX, Geordie Greep, Black Country, New Road, Kendrick Lamar and many, many more! I wrote an eBook on New York City's mid 90s hip hop renaissance! Renaissance: The Rise of Mid-Nineties New York Hip-Hop, available on the Kindle store: https://a.co/d/32YZIsV Follow me on other socials: INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/ryan_talksmusic TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryantalksmusi... BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/ryantalksmus... #2020smusic #2020shiphop #hiphop #indierock #popmusic #nas #kendricklamar #billywoods #charlixcx #thecure #jessieware #littlesimz #thealchemist #jid #runthejewels #clipse #blackcountrynewroad #blackmidi #magdalenabay #sufjanstevens Image credits: All images, excluding album covers, that are not credited are part of the Public Domain. All album covers are the property of their respective artist and their record company. JIDNY.jpg Slyguy1255 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 April 25, 2017 GUnitBKK.JPG Sry85 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 May 26, 2006 MF Doom The Arches 3.jpg TheArches Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 September 10, 2008 Kendrick Lamar 3 F.I.B. 2016 (cropped 3).jpg Batiste Safont Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 July 17, 2016 TheAlchemist2014.jpg Carl Pocket Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 March 28, 2014 Earl Sweatshirt March 15, 2013.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/3299992... Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 March 15, 2013 MadGibbs2014.jpg Carl Pocket Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 March 28, 2014 Madlib in 2003.jpg MikaV Modifications made by Blz 2049 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 November 28, 2003 Nas July 2014 (cropped).jpg Paris Hip Hop 2014 coupdoreille.fr/ Coup d'Oreille Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 July 6, 2014 Run-DMC Beastie Boys 1987 press photo.jpg Laura Levine Public domain 1987 NasirJones.png kokuziu D Original uploader East718 at en.wikipedia Cc Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Kendrick 2017.jpg Kenny Sun Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 July 22, 2017 Danny Brown 2016.jpg Sam Prickett Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 September 20, 2016 JPEGMafia 2021.jpg Rowstars Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 February 3, 2021 JID 2023.jpg Tweatz19 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 September 15, 2023 Denzel Curry (33425299652).jpg friedoxygen Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 March 15, 2017 Glasto24 2806 300624 (88 of 382) (53838023499) (cropped).jpg Raph_PH Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 June 29, 2024 Tyler the Creator (52163761341). (cropped).jpg Raph_PH Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 June 5, 2022 Lil Ugly Mane performing 2018.png GrungeRiver Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 August 18, 2018 Wearing protective mask during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lutsk, April, 2020.jpg Віщун Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 April 25, 2020 Phil Elverum, June 2008.jpg Pit R live act Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 June 3, 2008 Drake in 2011.jpg thecomeupshow Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 11 August 2011 Windmill, Brixton Hill, SW2 (3151353450).jpg Beer in the Evening Ewan Munro from London, UK Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 December 29, 2008 Black Country, New Road (49387468462).jpg Paul Hudson from United Kingdom Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 January 10, 2020 Black Midi 2019 Festival Sideways, Helsinki (48045809667).jpg Black Midi Ninara from Helsinki, Finland Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 June 7, 2019 WideAwake030921 (89 of 307) (51424005573) (cropped).jpg Raph_PH Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 September 3, 2021 Geordie Greep, The Windmill Brixton, London, 30 March 2024.jpg David Maynard Photography Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 March 30, 2024 Magdalena Bay (53775447004).jpg Bruce Baker from Sydney, Australia Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 January 5, 2023 Ulcerate 2014.jpg Amaya & Laurent Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 June 22, 2014 Deafheaven @ A Colossal Weekend 2017 41.jpg Grywnn Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 May 5, 2017 Blood Incantation live.jpg An actual cat Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 December 1, 2021 The Cure at Xcel Energy Center - 6-7-16 092. DSC 6607 (26930414523).jpg Joe Bielawa Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 June 7, 2016