I sound sped but you can't comprehend simple sentences

What in the projection is going on??

The Big 3 are Drake, Future, and Travis

Nas >>> everyone else

Ehh I don’t think that’s fair. There’s a bunch of dope artists people are still able to find despite the over saturation of music releases (regardless of genre). I mean people find dope s*** all the time despite 100,000 songs being dropped a day.

I think the problem is most people are “missing something”.

Maybe the music hits, it tells a story or creates a feeling but the innate intention to be “different” as a creative may be missing.

Or maybe they sick at marketing.

Or worse maybe their a piece of s*** from the go (yes a bunch of legends in hip hop at bare minimum are a******s let alone monsters at the worse) but that s*** be killing hype or interest for me quickly. Also could be something to say how we are able to access so much from a person in a way we couldn’t pre social media.

We still do bc every time one of them drop its still great but guys on here are too quick to say garbage when anything these 3 put out is always miles ahead of the new guys.

Couldn’t have said it better

Yea but they’re just derivative of carti the same way thug is to baby and gunna, except those two started to differentiate themselves artistically

Yea Pinkpanthress got it. Music is definitely moving towards slower tempos

Kendrick hasn’t dropped in quality enough to be out of his spot like many complain & it shows from the tour success from an album deemed as his weakest link

Yea but they’ve also played out their aesthetic and sound, due to it coming out in such a barrage fashion imo. Everybody is just trying to make their own spin of whole Lotta red inspired music. The only person that I’ve seen use it as an inspiration, and not as a foundation, and do it well has been yeat

also, even though it’s a symbiotic relationship, producers deserve a cut of the blame pie simply because they’re almost getting “bullied” into making the same s*** to appease, established artists or up-and-coming artists. There’s also a lack of versatility a lot of times. I think about when all the other great producers had a signature sound, but saw that their sound was being taken and they went back to the drawing board and came back with something great. That’s not happening anymore man. And maybe that’s because I can look up any FL tutorial on YouTube in someone’s gonna have the A-to-Z steps on how to achieve a sound and what VST I should use on top of it.

it really only is US too i wonder why that is

the best way is to follow a bunch of accounts you know have good taste/are knowledgeable and use the custom charts based on those users. and narrow down the genre/time period you want as much as possible

Simply put this s*** isn’t a simple we don’t have replacements for the big 3 because everyone mid.

Young stars died

Other stars who could be qualified as future big three members are basically the same ages is the term big three (Tyler Travis etc.)

Hip-hop being the most dominant music genre makes it the most replicable naturally. In a commodification because it’s a pop product. I mean we’re seeing the genre stretching ways we’ve never before. Metro Boomin literally did Spider-Man. Damn near every commercial you’ll see nowadays for any fortune 500 company uses it to four clap pattern with high hats, and 808s.

You’re fighting for attention currency in a way that the previous big three didn’t have to. You HAVE to have a TikTok or other apps, even if that’s not your profile as a person.

Record labels are predatory ultimately are going to the bottom line, which shows in the Record breaking profits.

And I guess we can talk about this later but we can’t get a new big three because the current big three are proxy tools for hits of nostalgia. No different than the movie studios who are remaking franchises because they can’t come up with new IP. They noted that Gen X and generation Z are so numb to it all you can just stuff their face will content.

Hustle/grind culture that’s exacerbated by social media, and our culture of capitalism running 400 years strong

i dont get why people log on to a rap forum just to post takes like this like i get if its my dumbass co-worker or something but being so engaged with your casual relationship to the genre is just so crazy its funny

Because it’s not true lol

Really feel like Smino should be Coles successor
I think they could be make a lot of great music together

Also, I realize that a lot of my posts may as pessimism but I do think hip-hop can receive a resurgence. However, I think the genre may have to fall out of the number one spot to do so.

i don't get it either cause they're all mid now

All those guys like
Smino and Saba COULD but they just have no interest to do so

I can see that

at least it seems that way

Not everyone wants to be a star. Some people cool with a cult or ravenous fan base that’s going to appreciate them and support their music and let them tour

It’s intentional at this point