In hip hop, your sound isn't youthful or old school; It has either changed to fit current trends or it is a flow from a previous era. Sometimes the most successful rappers adapt to what the youth sound like; like Kanye. Other times, rappers get successful with an old school flow on new instrumentals; like Juicy J. Sometimes you have artists like Lil Wayne that lose their connection to their market by missing key components to their appeal: truly comedic punchlines he laughed at in the take he recorded, his massive sense of confidence, or instrumentals as good as "Tha Carter 3".
In hip hop, your sound isn't youthful or old school; It has either changed to fit current trends or it is a flow from a previous era. Sometimes the most successful rappers adapt to what the youth sound like; like Kanye. Other times, rappers get successful with an old school flow on new instrumentals; like Juicy J. Sometimes you have artists like Lil Wayne that lose their connection to their market by missing key components to their appeal: truly comedic punchlines he laughed at in the take he recorded, his massive sense of confidence, or instrumentals as good as "Tha Carter 3".