Why do you weird niggas keep blaming Kendrick for the state of hip-hop right now? We were already headed in this direction before the beef ever started

Kendrick has dropped a total of zero songs as a lead artist this year btw

it’s too easy to blame kendrick it’s bigger than him

Drake winning the beef would not have changed the direction mainstream rap was heading in

Are you niggas crazy like genuinely

The label known for RAP put all their chips into a cosplaying vampire who can't keep his hands off women

42 songs
0 charting

Kendrick hasn’t even dropped music this year.

Drake dropped a whole album and a bunch of singles as promo for his 2nd album and he doesn’t have a song on the chart but this is somehow Kendrick’s fault?

Even Metro got a song charting

Niggas forget that there was no rap hit in 2023 until Doja dropped Paint the Town Red in August

That was AFTER Drake was coming off two new albums in 2022 and rolling out another one that would release in October

The genre was already heading this direction in the mainstream with or without the beef happening last year

The beef is literally what reignited it

Everybody was loving it until Drake lost

Rap would’ve been crickets in 2024 if not for the beef

Also getting back to this, what rappers are not collabing with each other?

We still getting the same collabs on every album.

The only rapper people actively avoid is Gunna. So I’m not getting this guys “nobody works with each other” argument

It’s s*** they’re making up to project because they feel like Drake was fighting a 20v1

Really what they mean is that Drake isn’t collabing with everyone anymore

He's definitely not the source of the issue but he didn't help either. He fast-tracked hip-hop to where it is right now.

Read my post again slowly.

Why would I subject myself to that

You already have.

No he didn’t

I'll always be a rap fan and I'll always listen to my favorite rappers but this has been long overdue.

And to the people who think that some magical Messiah is coming back to bring hip-hop/rap back to the forefront? LMAO.

What does Kendrick have to do with mainstream rappers releasing duds?

Just rap better niggas

It’s Kendrick’s fault Dog house f***ing stinks?

Lowkey the reason labels don’t invest into rap like they used to because of the cultural shift of America

It’s Kendrick’s fault that Drake dropped three flop singles in a row!

The music just isn't as good and Billboard rules favor pop artists as intended.

correct

We can agree the smash exceptions to this recent falling off of hiphop are: Lovin On Me, Paint the Town Red, Carnival, Not Like Us and TV Off?

I’m seeing the pattern again…

Wrong. Labels only care about making money and putting up numbers so their shareholders feel comfortable. They could give a f*** about a cultural shift.

Labels were supporting rap when niggas were out here getting killed over petty beefs. This is directly tied to what I've been saying these past few years — about how there have been zero new legitimate superstars to emerge from rap and how rap was still depending on a bunch of niggas pushing 40 to carry to genre and how unsustainable that was.

A whole new generation of superstars should have emerged from at least 2018 to carry the load, introduce new blood and excitement to the game and take the genre to greater heights. That didn't happen and labels slowly started taking their money elsewhere because if there's anything labels are obsessed with, it's new superstars and hip-hop simply wasn't providing that.