Don't Get Mad: Reggae Grandfathered Mumble Rap

Please... please don't hate me...

I love reggae, I love dancehall music; anybody who doesn't is arguably a demon, or some sorta synthetic human being who was made in a laboratory, perhaps a homonculus who was created using alchemy.  But I gotta keep it real:  I know a significant number of people who, when reggae and dancehall ruled urban radio, had NO... FREAKING... IDEA what was being said
by Shabba Ranks, by SupaCat, by Mad Cobra, by Bounty Killah, by Lady Saw, by Patra.  ...They had NO FREAKING IDEA.  I'm tambout, were dancing along, singing along, but had the words ALL wrong because they had NO FREAKING IDEA.  Matta fact, thank GOD for the Internet, because before the Internet there was no way to even LOOK UP what reggae and dancehall artists were saying!

The pleasant surprise was, once you tuned your ears to understand what was being said, you found out that reggae and dancehall artists had brilliant lyricism, huge vocabularies, and a lot of positive, uplifting, pro-Black messages... along with, of course, good love-making and basement party instructions.  At times, I've argued that dancehall and reggae artists were more lyrically sound than many of the hottest Hip Hop artists in rotation.

Now comes the part you're REALLY not gonna like.  What happens when you keep the indistinguishable lyrics and the weed smoke, but get rid of the Afro-Carribbean rhythms, get rid of the patois, get rid of the positive messages, get rid of the good vibes, get rid of the good love-making tips??

...You get mumble rap.  Yep.

In a weird way, I think having a form of music that was dope-yet-mildly-indistinguishable all these years set the table for the current season of rappers who, truth be told, are damn near creating a new dialect with their inaudible deliveries.  ...Well, not really all that new because, truthfully, their rhythms are just... limericks.  Ya'll remember limericks from middle school English?  The kinda poetry they used to feed us around St. Patrick's Day with leprechaun voices.  I'm getting off topic...

This isn't even a commentary of whether or not mumble rap is a good thing or a bad thing; I just had an epiphany that mumble rap isn't the first time I've turned on the radio and had no idea what was being said.  The only difference is, with dancehall and reggae, I would take pride in what was being said, whereas with mumble rap... I'm usually kinda glad they're mumbling.

...Again, please don't hate me.  But feel free to debate me!  Comment!