Bring back albums with concepts (and skits)
All these "playlist" albums are the problem, rappers dropping 20+ track bloated albums hoping a few songs stick

Why is Drake still being mentioned ITT?

Man is the only one that has dropped 4 albums in the past 3 years and he's about to drop another one

Carti and Kendrick take years to drop, and Travis just had to wait out the Astro Fest controversy

Like why are you guys mad at Drake 😂😂

Niggas can say the same thing about French Montana and he has major hits so is he not mainstream then? lol

someone tell drake to hop on brazil funk

i will say, i'm glad this site is in agreement that s*** just ain't good right now.

Yeat is actually one of the more interesting rappers to come out sonically in this new wave. I get the cosplay aspect though lol

It's when an entire culture of people identify with a finite amount of entities as a means to get their entertainment

The entire music business was built off of this premise.

You get your music from outlets such as outlets, video channels, radios etc. it's kind of easy to get an entire faction of people to support something when they can only get their entertainment from those outlets

These days, most people aren't buying music, they aren't listening to the radio, there is no music on television, and we're all on our own social media platform. We're curating our own entertainment experience instead of allowing big media, and labels to do it.

That means then that we can't create new stars because we're all in our bubble listening and consuming our own desired entertainment.

cuz he's cringe and corny and he knows regardless of how s***ty his new music, it'll get clicks on streaming services cuz he prolly has them on payroll

Facts. Pop Smoke would have been a valuable star for a fusion of drill gangsta rap and melodic hits (kind of like this gen’s 50) but then he died so there wasn’t anyone left to take the reigns

We had a Latin surge in the 2000s too with artists like Daddy Yankee and s***. That was also considered a slump era for rap too ironically. Just seems like history repeating itself

I don't really see it lasting but that's just my opinion personally

I don't mind it though, Bad Bunny and them are cool

So it wasn't fleshed out because you didn't like the production? I caught the vibe from every track on there. Jimmy Cooks the only track that took me out of the vibe that album shot for. As far as your feelings about Her Loss I felt like they fed off each others energy perfectly, Drake was a dominating presence but on no track did I feel they didn't complement one another, and again even if you felt like 21's presence was weak that takes nothing from the cohesion of the album nor does that mean it wasn't fleshed out.

All kinds of white people like race conscious artists like Noname, Jay Electronics, Kendrick, Billy Woods. A majority of their fans even.

Chatgpt

it’s saying something that albums that those guys dropped while taking years to drop have progressed the genre more than the guy that drops every year has though

in that case, bring back the 80's/90's/early 2000's format. let the tv channels bring music videos back, with hosts and s***, and let the radio restore the feeling

Facts, and Its not just music videos, all the music related TV shows are gone.

no more MTV Spring break/BET Spring bling performances
No more Music documentaries like Behind the music or MTV Diaries

i get what you’re saying

but labels weren’t giving up on hip hop in 2011. they were signing tyler, rocky, mac miller, kendrick etc

from a major label perspective, kanye + hov, drake, wayne, j cole, the game etc were releasing commercially successful, well received albums. that’s not mentioning all the underground indie classics that we had in the genre.

we’re in a much worse place than we were in 2011 not just musically, but also with infrastructure at labels, media etc.

Yes MMBS definitely set off waves through the genre.

What pisses me off about todays rapper the most is how the best rapper was always a smart,clever guy,who was always one step ahead of the listener. Now motherfuckers are really dumb,their really ignorant,their fans who somehow became rappers.

Kendrick,Cole and Drake are the last of a dying breed forreal,even though Drake might be drinking his own Kool-Aid too much.

Hip Hop fans have coped themselves into thinking that the state of rap now is the state of music period because to admit that Hip Hop is experiencing issues is to admit the artist they love aren't carrying the genre well.

There you go talking about waves when i’m talking about the art.

How did it progress the genre?

these people just be talking bro

We really should!

It would help

We desperately need our superstars to be superstars again

But it'd be tough. Sneakily, the industry has tried to do that with several reboots of stuff like this, but no one watches tv anymore and everyone is curating their own experience.