snowboyrari

2y

horrible comments and thread

HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA

2y

More like David Poop

Mr America

2y

This site so f***ing dusty man.

DAVID P

2y

To be fair his popularity really only hit recently so that's why I associate it with new Gen music

Fever

2y

Id say the decline was really starting 2018-19. 2014-17 had immense amounts of originality and new sounds were being invented on like a monthly basis

If you mean purely just the rapping piece of hip hop music, sure, but we were still seeing big evolutions in sound on top of just a lot more music being put out. Rappers were less afraid to take risks until the death of DatPiff/SoundCloud so we were seeing actual experimentation on the music front. Now it feels like experimentation on the release or "aura" of a musician itself instead of music

It makes the whole "I am music thing" so ironic because carti isn't wrong. This is unfortunately what mainstream "music" is now, even if barely has anything to do with the actual music

Mr America

2y

This site so f***ing dusty man.

Broscodolo

2y

What’s with all the Carti hate threads lately? You would think he hit a woman or something.

eye contact

2y

Is Carti new school? He’s been around for ten years

Kanye was not considered new school by 2010

BRAVE

2y

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Hard disagree on Carti but one thing about the rap game:

The feeling that the rap game has taken a nosedive in skill is centered around the prevalence of static rhythms in rap verses. This may sound small at first, but the one thing that separates rap from other genres is dynamic rhythms. Rhythms in sung verses of other genres usually don’t change line to line, so to have a genre that achieves a high level of catchiness while having unpredictable rhythms is a testament to rap’s inherently high literary and compositional skill.

That post-Drake/Nicki/Cole/Future/Sean/Kendrick class of aspiring rappers born in the late 90s took to making verses with purely static rhythms, and this has been their default way of rapping, stemming from melodic rap. If you rap with sung melody, you then take on the sung verse form, which is based on…static rhythms. This influenced the non-melodic rapping from the new generation as well, so now they do regular rapping in the style of melodic rapping which is post-Keef (the guy responsible for this specific influence on Gen Z)

When you take dynamic rhythms away from rap verses, you may not be affecting the artistic legitimacy of the genre, but the literary and compositional distinction of rap in comparison to sung genres is lost. Now rap is just another melodic sung genre with verses like the rest of em cause the words have to adhere to the static melodic form. This leads to less real s*** being said in verses as well. It’s no longer dynamic musical poetry and moreso glorified sports game chants

BRAVE

2y

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Hard disagree on Carti but one thing about the rap game:

The feeling that the rap game has taken a nosedive in skill is centered around the prevalence of static rhythms in rap verses. This may sound small at first, but the one thing that separates rap from other genres is dynamic rhythms. Rhythms in sung verses of other genres usually don’t change line to line, so to have a genre that achieves a high level of catchiness while having unpredictable rhythms is a testament to rap’s inherently high literary and compositional skill.

That post-Drake/Nicki/Cole/Future/Sean/Kendrick class of aspiring rappers born in the late 90s took to making verses with purely static rhythms, and this has been their default way of rapping, stemming from melodic rap. If you rap with sung melody, you then take on the sung verse form, which is based on…static rhythms. This influenced the non-melodic rapping from the new generation as well, so now they do regular rapping in the style of melodic rapping which is post-Keef (the guy responsible for this specific influence on Gen Z)

When you take dynamic rhythms away from rap verses, you may not be affecting the artistic legitimacy of the genre, but the literary and compositional distinction of rap in comparison to sung genres is lost. Now rap is just another melodic sung genre with verses like the rest of em cause the words have to adhere to the static melodic form. This leads to less real s*** being said in verses as well. It’s no longer dynamic musical poetry and moreso glorified sports game chants

BRAVE

2y

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Hard disagree on Carti but one thing about the rap game:

The feeling that the rap game has taken a nosedive in skill is centered around the prevalence of static rhythms in rap verses. This may sound small at first, but the one thing that separates rap from other genres is dynamic rhythms. Rhythms in sung verses of other genres usually don’t change line to line, so to have a genre that achieves a high level of catchiness while having unpredictable rhythms is a testament to rap’s inherently high literary and compositional skill.

That post-Drake/Nicki/Cole/Future/Sean/Kendrick class of aspiring rappers born in the late 90s took to making verses with purely static rhythms, and this has been their default way of rapping, stemming from melodic rap. If you rap with sung melody, you then take on the sung verse form, which is based on…static rhythms. This influenced the non-melodic rapping from the new generation as well, so now they do regular rapping in the style of melodic rapping which is post-Keef (the guy responsible for this specific influence on Gen Z)

When you take dynamic rhythms away from rap verses, you may not be affecting the artistic legitimacy of the genre, but the literary and compositional distinction of rap in comparison to sung genres is lost. Now rap is just another melodic sung genre with verses like the rest of em cause the words have to adhere to the static melodic form. This leads to less real s*** being said in verses as well. It’s no longer dynamic musical poetry and moreso glorified sports game chants

DAVID P

2y

IMO the decline was 2016-2017 when those dumbass SoundCloud rappers started popping up out of nowhere

Broscodolo

2y

What’s with all the Carti hate threads lately? You would think he hit a woman or something.

browser

2y

As a producer trying to fix the problem beat wise and incorporate different bounces or drum patterns maaaaan lol

Free YoungBoy

2y

Nah real s***. @browser @insertcoolnamehere @edumist yall would probably fw this a***ysis

sniper

2y

in for DavidP thread