Neon went from being the nerdy Indian kid who got banished from the 2k community for being racist to hanging out with all the rappers desperate for promo. Dark times.

I wonder if going Kai’s stream to promote your album will actually get people to listen your music vs back in the days of going to late talk shows or SNL.

This only happened because of the crutch a large part of hip-hop has on the capitalist or rich lifestyles it promotes. "You have to look rich, you have to look like a non-chalant hustler, you have to be the biggest boss in the room." Now you have big name rappers looking goofy on streams cause of how popular and rich these streamers are because of the youth.

I care hella about this as a adult man

s***'s been fake for a long time now. Fat Akademiks straight up said that Lil Baby's label paid him like $30K to get him to stop talking s*** about Lil Baby, while Rob Markman was saying that someone from ovo reached out to him and asked Rob to say positive things about Drake during the beef in return for information and access to him lmao

this is something that isn't a new phenomenon though. going back to old hollywood, just read up on Louella Parsons and see her role in trying to take down Citizen Kane and Ingrid Bergman due to her relationships with powerful people like William Randolph Hearst and Howard Hughes

@op you're right about streaming being a good tool if used right (that plaqueboymax and UK stream comes to mind, that was pretty cool)

i think overall audience engagement does the heavy lifting because streamers by themselves are not tastemakers. they just platform what's hot and then move on...they're too busy with other ventures and s*** to curate something that's authentic

Worst user ever

they are

rooted in rap’s capitalism/hustle first mentality and us letting niggas like akademiks have a platform to begin with

But i agree the potential is there for something great to come out of this for rap, i think backonfigg (sp?) has some cool moments/precedent as a platform for rap in this lane assuming they stream live

you might just be reading what you want here because nowhere in my post did i indicate i watch any streamers

saying half the country voted for trump doesn’t mean i support him too, it just means i can state facts about reality. do you understand what i’m saying?

this isn’t like “AI is coming whether you like it or not” streamers have already invaded the youth. it’s not a possibility, it’s just how it is.

lmao

my take is that streamers evolved from podcasters so we can actually blame Joe Budden for this

“streamers by themselves are not tastemakers.” Agree wholeheartedly im saying more so that themselves, their audiences and media treat them as such.

But towards your part about the audience I think that’s a big unspoken part of why the bs is allowed to flourish. The kids are alright but at the same time a lot of these lil niggas are stupid asf, when you also factor in that a lot of the audience is non black it makes a lot of sense as to why streaming and its relationship with hiphop is the way it is.

I like your posts because you can be funny, but no you don’t

Isn’t backonfigg a no jumper offshoot? Also you’re one of the best new users on here man appreciate you actually putting thought into your posts and offering good discussion.

It’s true but hip hop artist going on streams out of desperation feeds it too. Streamers are an inevitable creation that boomed with the pandemic . For that long can any artist of any genre truly show love ? Cudi has a podcast, t pain and wiz stream . Major artist do streams but those outside of it of course trying to get more viewers and a moment

The true question is can it improve

It’s true too

The only rappers you listen to or talk about are complicit in this whole ecosystem. Many of us don't have that problem.

If streaming is so ubiquitous, it's time to make a section for it. You won't.

The average streamer is playing a videogame for other people who play videogames. Your addiction to giving the bad ones negative attention is how Trump became a vehicle for aggrievances in the first place.

how old are you to know streamers were a big part of that beef

nobody’s telling you to watch more streamers dumbass, wtf is wrong with you? go read a f***ing book while you’re muted & i want a 5-page summary double-spaced times new roman 12 point font 1” margins when you’re back.

this illiterate asshat thinks everyone is telling him he should watch more streamers. nobody is saying that.