>Rap
Not Music
>Faggothony Faggotano
Not Music related

>>130967851
Delicious cope. 40 year old rap critic swears rap isn't on the decline guys. Nevermind every popular name in the game is 30 plus and is 5-10 years past their prime at this point. 'Underground' rap doesn't count either because people come and go like nothing at that level, nobody is going to be listening to 2slimey in 5 years like nobody is listening to 100gecs anymore.

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>>130967940
this

>>130967851
I saw his punk high school photo early today I think. It truly drove home the point that Anthony has no identity and taste of his own and merely adjusts his opinion to be aligned with whatever group he's trying to be in with, like a woman.

I wouldn't say its dead, more like its dying. There is no new movement, no young people in the underground breaking into the mainstream. But there is still rap, but its mostly old unc rappers like drake and kanye and future taking victory laps not realizing its over.

Its obviouse compared to like 1980-2020 years, that rap is sort of on the low ebb, replaced by country music and mid pop sluts like sabrina carpenter

fantano bills himself as being in the know about music, being a music critic, but he seems to not be able to feel the way the wind is blowing when it comes to the vitality of rap in 2026

>>130967851
https://voca.ro/1jXCaKDP8u3k

>>130968020
>but he seems to not be able to feel the way the wind is blowing when it comes to the vitality of rap in 2026
He's just coping. Even normies can tell you that rap has fallen off significantly since its peak in 2020/2021. Sort Fantano's videos by most popular and you'll find most of his most viewed videos are of rap albums, Kanye, Tyler, Kendrick, etc. Fantano is pretty fucking stupid but I know he knows that it's going down and his ego is not letting him say it openly because it would put into question his own future as a critic if his own bread and butter is now fading from popularity.

>>130968046
i dont know why he is holding onto rap with dear life, music genres come and go, hopefully this is just a between era where something cool happens again, but its not going to be rap

>>130968054
That’s the scary part. That there might not be a next genre.

Sipping Fiji water, no Aquafina
I'ma beat up Fantano, don't care about subpoena
Your favorite song's by Dua Lipa
You a old boy with a FUPA, I see ya
I'ma #metoo Fantano for grabbing me
Tweeting at me, but the nigga ain't @ing me
Put him in a headlock, he started stabbing me
It kinda tickled I thought he was mad at me
He falling off, gravity
Filling Fantano with lead like a cavity
He tweeting all day with mad vanity
I get the pistol and handle him handily
I just made it how it had to be
If I was Fantano I'd be suicidal!
I'd be like Kurt, with my lips on a rifle!
If I was Fantano, I'd get me a rifle!
I'll kill Fantano, right hand on the Bible!

>>130968153
its all gonna be revivals from here on out
boom bap coming back in 2 years

>60 year old guy in little timmy outfit looking like he's getting painal says "rap is not dead"

>>130967851
Sounds like a cope from a pseud who forced himself to like the genre. Nooo, it can't die because I spent so much time on listening!

>>130967851
>Rap Isn't Actually Dying
depends on your definition of dying
rock is dead in the mainstream but it's not dead dead

>>130967851
Faggot piece of shit subhuman spamming fucking Fantano threads fuck you I hope you get raped to death by a pack of wild niggers I hope there’s an accident and you lose both your hands so you can never post again I’m sick of this bald fat faggot on this board I don’t give a shit about what good album he rated poorly or what bad album he rated highly he’s a stupid fucking idiot we know that we’ve always known that but you retards come here every fucking hour of every fucking day saying “durr wait why fantano be dumb bald man not rate album how I rate album” why don’t you pull your head out of your ass do the world a favor and get a fucking shotgun and end your posting career early I’m sick of coming to /mu/ and seeing this subhuman and always the same fucking complaints about him just stop fucking posting him he’s not a musician and his videos aren’t even interesting just stop it I hope the skull is ripped out of your head and your brains are split in two and then they’re both put back and the process is repeated over and over I hope you live in abject misery I never want to see a thread about him again I hope your spine is split in half I hope your heart is clogged with cum I fucking hate these stupid fucking low quality threads we need a permanent ban on these threads so I want the mods to just fucking end this and I don’t even like them fuck off just do it stop posting yes we get it he’s a moron you’re the moron for posting him whether you like him or not you’re a fucking cancer cell killing this board eat my whole ass I’m sick and tired of you people being alive if theneedledrop were deleted off youtube this board would probably suck for a few weeks or so but then it would be so great as people realized he was never coming back I’m fucking begging you here please stop posting him stop posting about how you like and support him and stop posting about how you dislike or hate him just stop making threads about this shit

>>130967851
>yea this whole narrative that rap is in decline just feels so forced and engineered to be racist against black artists...
>but anyways if you look at the numbers rap actually is in decline
This guy is a joke

>>130967851
I was already sick of trap hihats and 808s by like 2012, I'm living in hell.

Rap is alive and well
Rap is back
Rap was on the decline but it’s back now
Rap is evolving and this next wave changes everything

i find it funny that all mumble rappers from 10s are dead or broke irrelevant nobodies unlike the 90s guys who mostly became rich and successful

He calls hip hop and r&b categorized together as cringe but without it the hip hop genre would be in 3rd place in overall popularity and looked at as less relevant

>>130969655
The 90s guys were never real gangstas, they were middle class theater kids doing a cosplay. The mumble rap guys _were_ real gangstas so ofc they were retarded thugs who got killed or went to jail.

>>130968153
There could be a 90s rap revival like Kriss Kross, MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice

When a 40-something white guy is trying to be cool helping rap you know is over.

>>130969731
>The mumble rap guys _were_ real gangstas so ofc they were retarded thugs who got killed or went to jail
>get on airplane
>cops are planning to search you for drugs
>go swallow all the drugs to hide them
>die of an OD
lol

standalone audio volume has dipped 1.7% so far in 2026 compared to last year. We aren’t seeing a collapse in popularity, but rather a shift toward a more balanced, multi-genre ecosystem where R&B/Hip-Hop’s profound creative influence is also seen in other styles

It’s not going away they’re just adjusting to the market and people’s tastes but it in their plans

rap isn't dying, it was the last popular genre of the monoculture
the monoculture is fading
rap is settling in to it's niche space, like every genre is
>there's no new young artists
there is, you're just not "tapped in".
>40 year olds dominate the genre
why is that necessarily bad? it's good that the people who've spent the last 15 years building their career are the kings while young artists need to actually prove themselves. that's how it should be.
the music industry is the only industry where 40 is retirement age. makes no sense. that's when you peak.

>>130969760
Anthony is not white.

enjoying rap music as a political statement is highly engrained and internalized in many white liberal millennials, it's practically a generational archetype. in the 90s and 2000s, listening to rap meant you were both . cool and rebellious and b. "not like the other whites," ie not afraid of black people. as such, it's important to the core identity of this type of person [anthony] that rap stays popular and relevant because it means the arc of history (concluding at TCD, total chud death) is progressing as he was promised it would. rap falling out of fashion means traditional white culture is making inroads and that simply can't be

>>130967851
Rap is dead as disco. Which is to say, some tasteless retards still listen to it.

>>130970450
the chud theory of mind for white people who enjoy rap is insane
have you considered the possibility that white people listen to rap because it sounds good?

>>130970469
It doesn't sound good. It's just a bunch of noise.

>>130970491
and thats your opinion

>>130970497
Listen to this song and tell me it isn't a bunch of noise.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=CpHHtcIrhuk&pp

>>130970450
white liberals really did not like rap in the 90s-00s aside from Public Enemy and a few other exceptions they said it was violent and degraded black communities and stuff. what you're talking about was more 2010s.

>>130970616
white liberals from the 90s were chuds

Truth is: rap was never good.

>>130970616
>>130970673
Pls censor the word wh*te

>>130970616
that 2010s rap they dickrode was neutered rap for white hipsters it was not at all like circa 1992 Ice Cube anyway

>>130970735
Seeing as wh*tes are the majority. It makes sense that the jewish record industry would market to those people.

>>130968554
Already happened with Joey Bada$$, Nas new albums, Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher
>>130969750
Already happened with Joey Valence & Brae, and they're already yesterdays news

How can you listen to a retard talking bullshit everyday? and I'm not talking about Fantano, I'm talking about Rap as a whole. Having some dude telling me how his life is shit or how he's rich is boring and not appealing.

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>>130967851
>40 year old
>still talking about Rap (the most manchild genre)

>>130968547
fuck fantano cause that nigga sucks

>>130967851
Those white supremacists are killing indigenous culture

>>130970517
good Pierre groove. The notes come right on time. You can casually introduce this for fresh sound.

>mainstream is ruled by old uncs in thier 40s, kanye is almost fucking 50, thats half a century years old, damn

>so called underground is ruled by playboy carti clones and interchangeable meme rappers who are here today and gone tomorrow and will never break through to the mainstream. or the so called fans listen to "rage" ironically for the lulz like 2slimey

>hip hop sales are only number one because they include r&b, its all smoke and mirrors

face the facts fandango, if hop hop isnt dying its surely in a tight spot compared to the past.

>>130968020
he's doing damage control for blacks

>>130967851
Even blacks are starting to leave the ship already. I've seen a dude called Genesis Uwu dropping the rap act into backseat in favour of a post punk revival/zoomer shoegazy guitar in the last three years.

>>130970450
rap declining means white middle class liberals lost, blacks will find something else and younger whites will eventually deem it as cool and trendy while white raptards will still hold the candle for washed up geriatric acts (alone and forgotten, as they deserve)

>>130968153
we need to oppress gays and blacks again so they get back to inventing shit in their basement just as good intended

>>130973193
I watched on documentary about beatniks, they used to be cool, were into poetry and art and jazz.

But they fell off and got replaced by hippies and rock music.

fantano and some hip hop heads are delusional thinking that rap being popular would happen forever. rock and jazz used to be popular too.


this simpsons quote just ages like fine wine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrfhsxxmdE

>>130972956
It's childish noises. That's all it is

>>130967851
Anthony has a vested interest is making sure the discourse around rap doesn't turn into the 'rock is dead' discourse from the 00s. Poptimism won and rappers are now making indie rock. Fantano already is a poptimist and I'm sure when rap stops bringing in the numbers beyond the biggest artists he'll pretend he wasn't rap's biggest mark for years. Either that or he'll be to rap what boomers are to being rockists and just dig the hole deeper and become more bitter over time the horse he hitched his wagon to failed.

rock has been coming back the last year and a half in any case

I can confirm hip-hop is dead because 百鬼夜行 have not released a new album ever since 無銘. Also KEMUI is old, so is 鬼, kowree and many more.

>>130974015
name 3

>>130973977
>he'll be to rap what boomers are to being rockists and just dig the hole deeper and become more bitter over time the horse he hitched his wagon to failed
I'm praying is this one

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>>130967851
How can you say that rap is in decline when Dave Blunts is still dropping sick beats!

>>130975554
literally forgot this guy existed till your post.

That nigga better get on the ozempic before he has a heart attack at age 25

hip-hop never replaced the big names which is the surest sign of a dead genre.
Ironically the genre where young people are supposed to dominate, but only the uncs remain on top.

>>130968020
Fantano parrots whatever pithy statement politics are popular on the internet. Which includes this weird defensiveness about rap.

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>>130971400
Just look at how he dresses, kek.

>>130979757
Kek what a fat bitch

>>130979757
a death grips fan

>>130967940
I'm still listening to Ghostemane 10 years later...

>>130969750
Sxmpra raps over 90s type shit

>>130970458
Rap × Metal sounds so good tho

>>130970683
Rap is mostly trash* FTFY. There are some good artists

>>130972324
>SHOOT AT HIS BALLS/I DON'T WANT HIM TO PEE!!

>>130978997
as time passed there were different generations that took turns at the top, but it's true that the door has shut and it's over now. they stopped adding rappers to the mainstream canon somewhere around 2017 with soundcloud's last dying breaths.
juice wrld and xxxtentacion are the most recent kids i can think of that the masses consider to be a big deal and they came out a decade ago. evidently god was determined to end hip hop.

>>130979757
what the fuck is wrong with him

i swear to god if i watch this video and he tries making the argument that the underground is flourishing with names like p1ssqueer!1 or whoever the fuck

>>130967851
Rap died with Pac and Biggie, so it's been dead about as long as he's been old enough to be paying attention to music.

An entire generation of would be headliners and hit makers were killed off by drugs and gang violence.

>>130981721
and abortions

>>130979757
Dressed like a toddler at an Oshkosh Bgosh photo shoot

>>130981721
>An entire generation of would be headliners and hit makers were killed off by drugs and gang violence

These guys were never going to do anything to begin with.

Yung Thugga, where are you?!

>>130967851
Give me one reason why this faggot's opinion means anything

>>130970380
Correct, he's southern Italian.

Millennials really thought they would be cool forever. Meanwhile these millennial fags sound like boomers talking about classic rock. Imagine being bald and having an opinion on rap music. Time has passed you by.

>>130982358
zoomers are in their way out too

>>130982965
aoomers will save us all

>>130967940
Spot on. It's dying a brutal death, it's pretty embarrassing desu lmao

>>130969750
nah, that music aged way too poorly

>>130967851
the rap he dickrides is specifically the 2010s kind of stuff that was for white hipsters

Rock music playing at a bar serves a utility. It brings all the people in the room together based on songs they've been hearing since childhood, songs their families may have talked about together at some point.. songs attached to core memories.

Rap music playing at that same bar shifts the entire atmosphere. It is not parat of our core culture as Americans, sorry. It just isn't. Once the bars start catering to the hiphop crowds, you know, you give it time and next time you visit, it's packed to the brim with players looking to swoop up a snow bunny on a Friday night. Rock music is like pesticide for these types.

I'll never forgive the mainstream for brainwashing the younger generation with mumblerap.

>>130967851
the rap will get its funding back when democrats resume power
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JuvvqJIdYKg&ra=m

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>>130980175
Not beating the allegations, homeslice.

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>>130982358
Wait, we were cool?

lol you have to be a retarded zoomer to not notice how jelly roll and morgan wallen have been two of the biggest artists for a while now…

both do nonstop fake rap hip-hop cameos.

the zoomers yearn for the days of nu-metal

>>130982358
Classic rock still slaps tho

>>130984599
is Tom Petty classic rock?

yeah everybody's gay and a faggot now so the cartoonish machismo and heckin don't crease your heckin gucci chungus sneakers shit just doesn't land or make sense at this point. there's no audience for it. only the most deeply dedicated psychotic partisans are going to suspend their disbelief and not roll their eyes when they wheel ice spice out onto a stage for something everyone else is just going to turn that shit off

>>130983288
that's true nobody's ever done a karaoke to rap like they do with Don't Stop Believin'

why do chuds have a hard time accepting that Kendrick Lamar is this generation's Led Zeppelin?

>>130979757
https://youtu.be/XMgaQfv2Xo8

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>>130984234
why are millenniuncs coping like this

>>130983921
>jelly roll and morgan wallen
who?

as you might guess, he's getting older and becoming a boomer who is unwilling to accept that that Obama-era mall hipster zeitgeist is over

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>>130967851
>2000 - 2008: pop music, recession pop, party rock pop, britpop renaissance
>2010 - 2016: Indie sleaze, electronic indie revival, rap and hip hop renaissance
>2016: the decline
>2026: ?????
There are literally no genres any more

>>130986836
That's the point because he predicated most of his brand around circa 2015 trends that are long dead.

>>130986853
"indie sleaze" was more mid late 00s
>2026: ?????
indie sleaze revival, nu metal revival

>>130986917
>indie sleaze revival, nu metal revival
Post some examples, both genres are in total zombie mode

>>130986836
Also he was always boring as shit to begin with.

>>130986938
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JefYd7TBck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3jBDhnhS8U

>>130987006
If you told me these where ai generated videos and music I'd believe it

okay?

I believe it when I said he's a shapeshifter with no identify of his own which is why he was a nu metal guy once who then became a mall hipster to curry favor with P4k.

>>130987062
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcqnrXC4l6E
https://youtu.be/sHmnnNxu6Ww?si=OjvVfeu-zC6k9HPW

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Rap can't be dead, Bladee just dropped SULFUR SURFER

>>130983288
There was a nightclub near me that switch from EDM to hip hop to attract larger crowds. Within the first year there were 3 shootings. It has been in operation for over 30 years and never had a shooting until then.

>>130987480
kek

rap is oversaturated and has had little substance for about ten years. it's definitely dying