90s style and bad lyrics aside I think old hip hop etc like Romeo and Juliet you mentioned or a lot of Akon, dr. Dre stuff etc had a lot more melody and was muc

90s style and bad lyrics aside I think old hip hop etc like Romeo and Juliet you mentioned or a lot of Akon, dr. Dre stuff etc had a lot more melody and was much nicer to the ears than most of what we have today, even from good (subjective) artists.