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ValentineI clearly stated that it’s the fans who got tired of hiphop but the same listeners who always been here are still here? None of the other genres have significantly rose in any way nor reached the peak hiphop has reached or gone above it in its decline but ya’ll keep focusing on only hiphop cause pop/country/rock fans finally leaving
Where the other artists from these other genres that compare to the stars always required from hiphop? why can hiphop consistently produce and did produce a new crop of artists that charted highly in the 2020s and that be harshly judged compared to other genres who didn’t do the same?
Where the other artists from these other genres that compare to the stars always required from hiphop? why can hiphop consistently produce and did produce a new crop of artists that charted highly in the 2020s and that be harshly judged compared to other genres who didn’t do the same?
Bad Bunny? Sabrina Carpenter? Morgan Wallen? Zach Bryan? Olivia Rodrigo? Noah Kahan?
The biggest song of 2026 is by a new Country singer (Ella Langley)
The 2020s have produced no new rap stars as popular as any of these artists
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genghiskhartiThey’re superstars rn that existed in the underground a decade ago amongst other artists who blew up like pump or x. That mainstream potential is really lacking in the underground now. I’m sorry, but Osamason or Nettspend are most likely never reaching that point, even though they’re in a position primed to blow up
no I agree with you
RareRarFilesfeels like these kind of articles are made on purpose as well
i do think they wrung what they could out of hip hop and are moving onto different demographics
- Jim Halpert
no I agree with you
- ·3 repliesshaleirose
Where the other artists from these other genres that compare to the stars always required from hiphop? why can hiphop consistently produce and did produce a new crop of artists that charted highly in the 2020s and that be harshly judged compared to other genres who didn’t do the same?
Bad Bunny? Sabrina Carpenter? Morgan Wallen? Zach Bryan? Olivia Rodrigo? Noah Kahan?
The biggest song of 2026 is by a new Country singer (Ella Langley)
The 2020s have produced no new rap stars as popular as any of these artists
who is the last rap superstar
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Albert GrindsteinNew niggas suck or only got production strengths which can't carry an artist for long and the old niggas either peaked a while ago or stuck in limbo because their corny ass fans can't stop doing Stan wars. Niggas can't write good fun hooks anymore either. Niggas forgot how to party. And conscious niggas too afraid to really take it there.
Also nigga f*** Billboard anyway bruh who gives a s*** this is hip hop!
Not even, that's an argument I've seen used quite a bit, but cmon even the production has become uninspired af.
·3 repliesJim Halpertwho is the last rap superstar
does yeat count? could he do a stadium tour?
- Valentine
went to 6 rap tours last year and 4 in just the last 7 months from artists of different age ranges, crowd sizes and relevance but niggas tell you hiphop dead cause of some streaming numbers smdh niggas stink off twitter ass a***ysis
Do you think that "rap is declining commercially" means that a total of ZERO people in the world are listening to rap music?
- Classique
does yeat count? could he do a stadium tour?
I don't think he could but I'm old
idk if I'd call him a superstar. doesn't seem to have the longevity
- ·1 replyClassique
does yeat count? could he do a stadium tour?
absolutely not for both questions
- ·3 repliesJim Halpert
who is the last rap superstar
Probably Travis honestly
Uzi got close but never really reached SUPERSTAR status imo
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insertcoolnamehereDeante never grabbed my attention
It's Kenny Mason as far as the (supposed to be) biggest thing to be from Atlanta.
And that's fine. The fact that you can find other artists with albums you like is a sign that there's still variety in artists in the genre to listen to, and there are still many good albums that have been coming out.
- Batracho
absolutely not for both questions
his last album flopped so maybe he had a good run tho
- shaleirose
Probably Travis honestly
Uzi got close but never really reached SUPERSTAR status imo
hard to argue and he definitely is a superstar
- ·2 repliesshaleirose
Probably Travis honestly
Uzi got close but never really reached SUPERSTAR status imo
uzi is for sure a worldwide superstar
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uzi is one of the greatest of all time i will die on that hill
rapsYou’ll see when the next Em DMX 50 Kanye Mixtape Weezy etc tier moment/run happens lol
All of the rhetoric around rap falling off can be boiled down to no one is “going for it”, niggas preserving their brand or trying to fit into “the underground” (which ironically goes against the concept of an underground lol)
S***s just not exciting bro
People know what you talking about but they also wanna believe hip hop gon be ok.
Jim hyping up mf Alice/that Future album in general was a sign of like oh s***...niggas really talking themselves into fake nostalgia bait instead of acknowledging that...bro s*** is kinda bad out here.
And I'm not saying that don't mean we gotta throw hip hop in the garbage like I said there are some hip hop albums I liked this year
But you can like some albums this year and also be like...yo why is Future relying on a Pharrell relying on an old Dj Mustard sound that even Dj Mustard stopped relying on...to make a single???
At some point you have to acknowledge s*** is weird.
You can acknowledge that s*** is weird and still love hip hop lol.
Hip hop is the literal basis of all the music I listen to, first album I remember my pops (RIP) ever playing on tape was return of the boom bap.
it is also nothing hip hop related this year that's in my top 3 (e.g. GENA, Kelela, and underscores)
goretex 💁🏽♂️·1 replyJim Halpertwho is the last rap superstar
carti
- ·1 replyClassique
uzi is one of the greatest of all time i will die on that hill
that's quite the hill brother. I could never buy in it felt like kids music lol
- ·1 replygoretex
carti
could see this
- ·1 replyJim Halpert
that's quite the hill brother. I could never buy in it felt like kids music lol
bro no offense how old are you
·1 replyClassiquedoes yeat count? could he do a stadium tour?
This a real question champ?
I might be old, but if YEAT is doing stadiums, I must’ve blinked too long and missed when he got that big
- ·1 replyClassique
bro no offense how old are you
35
- ·1 replyDr Lee PhD
This a real question champ?
I might be old, but if YEAT is doing stadiums, I must’ve blinked too long and missed when he got that big
i feel like he's a huge artist maybe im overestimating
- ·2 repliesSmacked Voodoo
And that's fine. The fact that you can find other artists with albums you like is a sign that there's still variety in artists in the genre to listen to, and there are still many good albums that have been coming out.
There is variety. I'm merely commenting over the landscape of s*** entirely.
Like we don't have to go back a decade. 2022 and 2025 imo might be the best years we've had for hip hop in a while.