Is rap dead?
>>130045940Finally.
Billboard is basically dead
rap isn't dead it's just that all the rappers are scared to drop because secretly they all know the kendrick/drake beef isn't over and that means if you ever supported one of them you can't get a feature or a sample cleared from someone that supports the other side.
oversimplification caused by too many rule changes will likely lead to charts like youtube music and spotify, where songs from 30 years ago start ranking, rendering the system unusable
It's time to engage the Tone Loc
>>130045940>bald>divorced>grinds on tranniesI almost, but don't quite, have more respect for Aubrey Graham.
>>130045940Is that a snapchat filter or is that actually what Chance looks like now? Buddy, unless you're Maurice White you're not gonna pull off balding. Just cut your losses and shave it.
It's been dead as a genre since actually rhyming went out of popular fashion. That said there is good rap music being made it's just not what the majority (retards) seem to listen to so it doesn't chart.
>>130045940This shit makes me believe in usaid funding conspiracies or something. Rap was fucking everywhere. It was massive. Rappers were like giga famous. Now its just gone. Even the weird reddit worship shit for Kendrick seems to have vanished. Zero. Nothing.
>>130045940its not dead but its passe. its now firmly a subculture rather than *the* culture, like rock became after the 00s
all the up and comers died (killed/ODed) or stopped making rap in favor of something else, not really surprising when the only thing of note to happen to rap in the last half decade was two almost 40 year olds flinging shit at each other>>130045972nobody gives a shit about that anymore
Hard to sell a genre of music that's all about partying, crime and degenerate behaviors to a generation that's into healthmaxxing and staying home.
>>130046248Would you recommend me some?
>>130046435Than what is the main popular genre right now?
>>130046620dance pop
R&B is still going strong, a lot of overlap with hip hop
Rap was never good.
>>130045940there is no more innovation in rapit's been over for a while now
>YFW you lived long enough to see the death of rap
Useless statement considering drake has not dropped ICEMAN yetyou can start the "rap is dead" conversation after we see how ICEMAN performs
>>130046620Tiktockcore
>>130046800>ALL of rap's hopes pinned on a 40 year old gay CanadianGrim.
>>130045940This is a recession indicator
>>130046817>All of rap's hopes are pinned on the biggest rap star of all time and arguably the biggest musician today yes?
>>130046849Yeah, it's dead alright.
>>130046817all the thirdies are 2 decades behind americasince BINI played coachella, i expect the jews to start shilling filipino rappers next
Rap has been dead since Julio Foolio got killed.
>>130046620We're in a weird transitional period where another dominant genre hasn't emerged yet. With how fragmented the media landscape is in today's world, maybe there just won't be another dominant genre at all, everyone will just be siloed into their own algorithmic bubbles from now on and there will be no more monoculture that ties music together.
>>130047396>there will be no more monoculture that ties music together.good
>>130046800Nobody cares about Flopman or BBL Drizzy in general anymore. He's going to release another bloated 40-track playlist and game the streaming numbers so Lucian can make a lot of money off of him again, but it will make zero cultural impact and nobody will be able to name a song from it within two weeks of its release.
>>130047414i guarantee with 95% certainty iceman will be very impactful on the culture. drizzy will dominate the charts. just watch.
>>130045940No, the underground will take over
Just let it go. You guys had a great run and some pretty complete social dominance. Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
>>130047477Yeah, just like For All the Dogs and all the classic iconic songs it contained like... uh... the list goes on... Or that incredible collab album he did with PartyNextDoor last year that totally wasn't memoryholed ASAP.If You're Reading This It's Too Late is the last time Drake's slop made an actual impact without being a humiliation ritual for him, and even that was just okay. And that was 11 years ago. Aubrey is already washed at 39 while Kanye is still the GOAT at 48, damn, that shit's got to sting for the Drizzy guzzlers.
>>130047522his projects from 2022 onwards were abrasive and didn't try for mass appeal on purpose..it makes sense considering where he is at in his career.. his ridiculous success for the past 10+ years. the drake vibe since 2022 has been>you know my success i don't need to prove myself anymoreiceman is signaling to be a return to form and I cannot entertain the "rap is dead" discussion until it drops
>>130045940Zoomies are all on Spotify and its still the favorite Genre among 16-25 year olds.
Just wait. It's coming
>>130047637Zoomers are rapidly ascending to unc status. Rap is just as quickly becoming unc music.
Ok but how long since a rock song (actual rock, not Imagine Dragons or Mumford and Sons or whatever) charted?
>>130047811uhmmmmabout... like uhhhh 15 years? Its totally what all the urban zoomers listen to, i was at a Weezer concert recently and all the women were about 21.
>>130047811why do rap fags got to bring up rock music like thats going to prove some sort of point, rap still dying
>>130045940The only interesting rap had in the past 10 years was mumble rap and that died with teriyaki 69 and the others dying.And the old guard haven't really excited or done anything interesting for the youth except the drake v Kendrick and that only lasted a few weeks.
>>130047923Because only rockists seethe about other genres Rap, Pop, edm, classical, theyre all very open minded but rockists and metalfags seeeeethe all day about other music
>>130048032yes, rap fags never get mad, only rock fans.moron
>>130048040Ive never seen a rap guy get mad at classical
>>130045940Based
If HH wasn't removed from streaming services it would have been the song of the summer 2025.
>>130047606>Aubrey>not trying for mass appealHe's a bubblegum pop singer whose entire career since day 1 has been predicated on mass appeal. Failing to achieve it =/= not trying.
Good. Rap = crap
>>130046620Pop music and country. The current number one song is a country song called Choosin' Texas.
>>130047404It's so obviously country
>>130049286Ella Langley is just Morgan Wallen repackaged and resold and the normies can't get enough
>>130049307I don't know who any of those people are kek, I don't really care about country music. It is still really strange just how popular country music is getting though, even some zoomie girls I see on Tinder have country music in their profiles and pictures of them at country concerts, it's fucking weird.
>>130046038Sir, the Funky Cold Medina is primed and ready to be fired on your command.
HIP HOP IS DEADAND NO ONE CARESIF THERE IS A HELL I SEE YOU THERE
>>130045940TikTok broke Billboard.
what will black people do if rap really dies and gets replaced by country music lol?will they get a new hobby?
Rap was never music to begin with.
>>130045962>t. salty groidLOL
rap peaked with soundcloud rap, lil peep, xxxtencion, juice world, all of that was to be the new generation of rap, but they all died or went to prisonthen covid happened and music in general fell offThen the beef between kendrick and drake happened, this was like the season finalie of rap, it was conscious rap vs pop rap, and conscious rap won, unfortunately conscious rap doesnt top the charts or gets the bitches goingnow rap is sort of like a zombie walking towards its final death
>>130049512Rap dying will heal this nation
>>130049464Based.
>>130049512>lil peep, xxxtencion, juice world, all of that was to be the new generation of rap, but they all died or went to prisonPeople can speculate on sales figures but this was the actual death of hip hop. You'll never convince me peep was good, but like it or not he, X, juice, and more were supposed to carry the torch, and they weren't just retards like Xan. They had legitimate talent and followings. Genres don't survive that kind of loss, certainly not a genre that was already stale by the time we got here. Drake makes club music.
>>130045962mostly this but their changes are for the good so fucking faggots can't rely on streaming numbers to keep people in the charts months after its use-by-date
Lol wiggers got told to fuck off while at the same time the black population is getting wiped out by immigrants and im not talking about mexicansWhat do you think was gonna be the outcome in the culture war?
>>130046578Benny The ButcherRoc MarcianoDeath Dealers Anonymous
>>130050459The outcome of the culture war is spending hundreds of billions for Israel and more Blackrock influence in the White House.Truly anti-establishment moves
>>130046578el snappo
>>130050459Actually it is mexicans/hispanics zoomersThey are the biggest demographic who inherit the USA and will determine what culture will beDo you think Bad Bunny and Corridos song charting were just a coincidence?
>>130049464Based
>>130045940I did merch for some hip hop musician last night, god damn it's like these people are incapable of understanding that if they ask for comps at merch there will be zero tees to sell at the next gig, I arrived at the venue with a deficit of hoodies to sell because the artists had been giving them away after the count out on the previous date, fucking braindead morons, honestly working that show made me even more racist than I already am
Groid fatigue
>>130049464alright jerry garcia
>>130049464actually much deeper than it looks!
>>130046332Most of the criminal outfits funding rap got RICO-ed in the late 2010s.
>>130046849>and arguably the biggest musician todayToday is 2015?
>>130050459>black population is getting wiped out by immigrants and im not talking about mexicansLatino gangs literally target blacks in order to remove them from their neighborhoods, what other group could be possibly said of "wiping" them out?
the first recorded hip-hop record was Rapper's Delight by Sugar Hill Gang, they were signed by a small, nearly broke label owned by the chick from Mickey & Sylvia.NWA was started by Eazy-E to launder money he made from being a male prostitute. Dre and some of the other guys spent the 80s making electronic party music as part of the LA club scene.Biggie was discovered by Puff Daddy after he got fired and needed something to stop himself from going broke.Tupac was the son of a Black Panther member who began his career as a dancer for Digital Underground. His first single was New Jack Swing and he only crossed over to rap after getting shot in Biggie's foyer.a few of the ground-floor producers were Jews, like Rick Rubin, and there were a couple in LA as well. but then the producers didn't always fund the records, they just helped recording them. and gangster rap wasn't really a thing back then. i think Rubin's first big acts were Beastie Boys and LL Cool J, before he started Def Jam with Russell Simmons. Simmons got in the game because his cousin knew some MCs or some shit,Rubin viewed hip-hop as black punk, as opposed to mainstream black music back then (r&b, soul). in 80s new york hip hop groups only got booked outside of the blacksville in punk clubs.
>>130046332>Now its just goneSo by your logic it was also propping up the British empires
>>130046768Citation needed
the sum total of what music people listen to and the percentage by genre is more than what is on billboard charts. billboard is not representative of what everyone on earth listens to. and there is music with thousands of copies sold better than music with millions of copies sold.
>>130046248Rap was never about rhyming. That's hip-hop's raison d'etre.
>>130046620https://youtu.be/-Illjlb7Vwg?si=tOwmTRNOBQ6KM5dv ?
>>130046620Hyperpop/Electronic
>>130045940>when you realize it really was just Jewish trickskek
>>130045940>active since 2011>2 albumsis rap the laziest "music" scene?
>>130046578Earl, MAVI, MIKE, Navy Blue. You know, that avant-garde pothead shit.
>>130053628Chance put out a bunch of mixtapes first, so it's not like he released nothing at all from 2011-2019, and then his first album was an embarrassing flop that made him a joke and tanked his career. I didn't even know he had a second album until you mentioned it.
>>130046620Stomp clap revival soon
>>130053982please no
>>130045940who the fuck cares about current music man
we're all listening to hunxho and rodwave
>>130045940i haven't listened to whatever was on the radio or a top chart in like 15 years.
Rap was going through a boom in the 2010s both in terms of charts and underground. The 2020s acts have failed to live up to those standards. We were getting a ton of innovation early-mid 2010s. It feels stale right now
>>130055123hip-hop's decline is because albums stopped mattering, and the rise of singles-only artists turned it completely disposable.
>>130051461>>130046332>>130050459these are the real reasons. jews were boosting rap which heavily relied on a majority white negro worshipping consumer base. the youth population in American is Asians and Hispanics and the Asians prefer kpop, edm and pop and Hispanics prefer reggaeton, corridos, or kpop. blacks are still rapping but they have always ignored whitey.
>>130057202>hip-hop's decline is because albums stopped mattering100% factual. and when fags do drop albums it's 35 minutes of 2min tracks, no cohesion, mixtape level nonsense made purely for spotify playlists.
>>130059889It's the complete opposite, anon. Albums are hour plus slopfests comprised of 30 plus songs about nothing so they can maximise for raw streaming numbers and sales. See Mac & Cheese 5 for an extreme example of this. Agreed with the album being a dead format though, Kanye was right.
>>130045940If rap is dead then what’s alive? Rap is dead, rock is dead, it seems the only thing alive then is just pop music and edm.
>>130052243NWA was a full on fed project, unironically
>>130045940I hope. It's not music. They are all fucking retarded. They deserve no money only death for all of them.
>>130045940yes
>>130045940Esdeekid reached #26 on billboard 200 like 3 months ago. It's nowhere near dead.>>130049512>>130050433It was more to do with a litany of drill rappers dying or being jailed all from NY, England and Chicago, even the soundcloud shit although it was undeniably mainstream had a corniness to it that drill lacked, though drill certainly still is corny in a different way.
It's about time. BTW, not music.
Social media has been curated to pushing racism for the last couple of years and now zoomers and Gen alpha won't listen to rap and hip hop on the basis of them been indoctrinated into being racist chuds
>>130061505Even you don't believe this. What's the point in even typing this slop?
>>130049512>the death of 3 soundcloud rappers whose sound had already run its course was the reason why rap died
>>130045972you are actually retarded jesus christ
>>130045940in the mainstream, yesit has split up into a ton of subgenres/styles that are more niche and less popular. instead of "big rap stars" kanye and drake it's "underground" stuff like bleood, xaviersobased and lazer dim
obese and embarrassed times are tough for drizzy right now
