roselei

2y

You hyping up niggas called Phreshboyswag and saying Ice Spice isn’t good?

She’s legit a breath of fresh air, unlike any of the SoundCloud knockoffs you named

deleteduser579

2y

i checked that phreshboy guy out just now ☠️ ☠️ 🗣️🚮

deleteduser579

2y

i checked that phreshboy guy out just now ☠️ ☠️ 🗣️🚮

RICKY 2320

2y

I knew the genre was on its last legs when DaBaby and Lil Baby were the hottest rappers in 2019 and 2020

Drake saturated the sound too

It also didn’t help that Pop Smoke and X passed away

Free YoungBoy

2y

This s*** gas ngl lol

DJEA92

2y

Literally. There is like 2 good upbeat/club smashes per year now when in the 2010's there was like 1 every other month

Everything just sounds like F***UMean since 2020

Bobby_96

2y

It still blows my mind when certain users here s*** on 2000's rap when 2000's rap produced some of the most timeless hits and bangers in hip hop that still live on today.

In Da Club, Flashing Lights, Lose Yourself, A Milli, Always On Time, Wobble, Made You Look, Dirt Off Your Shoulder, Hate It Or Love It, Hot N Herre, Day N Nite, Wobble, Frontin, Drop It Like It's Hot, Tipsy, Get Low, Ms. Jackson, Work It, Move B****, etc.

These songs literally get jammed more than many hit rap songs from this decade even by Gen Z.

Even 90's songs will often resonate with younger rap fans today more than today's rap songs.

"Ten Crack Commandments" wasn't even a single but at my last baby shower the younger relatives in my fam were rapping it word for word and getting hype.

DJEA92

2y

Rappers just don't even try to write hit records now unless the producer like nudges them into it other than the obvious A listers. Like cool bruh make a cohesive album but make SOMETHING that people can dance to like the decades you forementioned

Bobby_96

2y

I agree.

It's not even that rappers need hits or bangers. But you need to compensate for it with creative and artistic bodies of work or bars.

For instance, I listen to Denzel Curry and Vince Staples and obviously they don't make "music for the hoes" but they make up for it with quality records.

In the past, rappers who couldn't spit well or make focused albums at least were good hitmakers or made club bangers like Chingy, Tyga, and Magoo.

But, now they're not even skilled in that department either. I remember watching a club scene in Atlanta where Lil Baby was playing and not a soul was dancing or looking like they were having fun lol.

roselei

2y

You hyping up niggas called Phreshboyswag and saying Ice Spice isn’t good?

She’s legit a breath of fresh air, unlike any of the SoundCloud knockoffs you named

HeyFriends

2y

more like breath of fresh farts

Lein

2y

Guessing its probably legacy acts. There's a trend of older songs being more streamed than newer ones.

Iron Lion Zion

2y

That's how it begins. Soon those legacy acts will become an inspiration for a whole new wave of rock acts in future years.

Lein

2y

Guessing its probably legacy acts. There's a trend of older songs being more streamed than newer ones.

rvi

2y

the current top global song is rock apparently

Big Dog

2y

Without Drake this genre is cooked. Good luck to hip-hops relevancy when Drake/Cole/Kendrick really done.

Lein

2y

So true what will the world do without another 30 track album of a 46 year old whining about his sneaky link

Aquilla

2y

I doubt that existing genres will become the defacto. Rock had its 30 years of being the cultural tour de force(50s - 80s). Country has seen massive success over the years too wnd is having a resurgence.

But there is always a completely new genre that takes over. It'll have its time as an underground but then it gets poppin out of nowhere. Cultural prime: Jazz(20s - 50s), Rock(50s-80s), Hip Hop (90s -2020s). That's been the cycle but clearly something different is happening.

Duck Fieri

2y

As the US becomes more and more conservative

I gotta give it to the RNC. After 8 years of Obama they ain't never slept

yungking

2y

I believe that if Chance’s album was actually good then the current street rap wave wouldn’t have came back

iHype

2y

The current era of rappers don't know how to make club hits, simply put.

We are in a period where rappers are just local gang members that have no real talent, no personality, nor know how to make catchy music. They are just rapping out a studio in their house for fun, no true passion. They didn't grow up obsessed with writing and creating music they just got bored and figured they could do it. The output they make appeals to a very specific demo (usually the hood in their local city). It's not music that appeals to a widespread mainstream audience.

Jack Harlow got the #1 song right now because he is a rapper who knows he isn't from the streets so he isn't trying to make a song about shooting 7 people. He focusing on making a catchy club hit.

Kanye, Drake, Cole, Kendrick, etc had so much appeal cause they weren't just portraying the generic trap king & jailbird image. That stuff does not go far and only appeals to a very narrow audience.

Fax My Brother

2y

mainstream hip hop has been truly terrible since like 2020 so it's not really surprising if we're honest