While I completely understand this point, the point of the "cookie cutter" rapper is usually them giving their version of life. Yes, it sounds the same, but most of the time it boils down to tone and flow that hooks me to someone that raps about shit I've already heard before.
word..
if they can give the same message with a cool delivery, then I will listen. but if its the same topics, with the same boring ass rhyme structure, then i have no desire to check it out..
the thing with these cookie cutter, "gangsta" rappers, is that 90% of the time they are just making party tracks, 'hood anthems' and shit to bump in your car. so it REALLY becomes repetitive, because they are trying to maintain an image, while talking about smoking weed, drinking and killing people.
if somebody can tell a cool, true story about their everyday life, be it street life or hood shit, whatever, then they are on to something. add a unique style to it, a vocabulary, some multis, some punchlines, etc... and you have a decent artist.
im not hatin on skat and snug, but they fall short of my 3rd paragraph. they talk about the basic shit, in a basic way...
i wouldn't even feel the need to mention any of this if it weren't for that dude who basically said you have to live the street life to appreciate the music..
because that shit doesn't add up