[mtalantikite]

I think like anything, the lineage evolves. If we're to call Madlib and Dilla 'lofi', as the wikipedia does, then we can follow that lineage to someone like Knxwledge, who just this week won a grammy for 'Why Lawd?'.

Meanwhile, you have all these people on YouTube that distill something out of that lineage and just make tons and tons of boring versions of it. As more people encounter it, divorced from it's history, the term takes on a new meaning and now the boring version is what the label means.

So I guess you could say the lineage is alive and well while the genre is boring and dead. And I agree, it's not AI's fault.

[dvngnt_]

knxwledge famously hates spotify and has posted how little they pay which is why most of his catalog is on bandcamp