To me it comes down to 3 things. Death of XXX. Death of Juice. Baby Keem taking too long to drop.

Without all 3 of those ^ we would have had what could have been pretty big rap albums over the last years. We are still relying on travis kendrick drake etc to drop the big ones.

New talent on the way I’m sure, but that def set us back.

Is this post a joke?

no way u put baby keem up there with x and juice

The truth is

Although there is a noticeable lack of new rising talent that has the potential for longevity, the idea of "rap declining" as a whole is an outdated concept.

These last 5 weeks alone, we've been given so many albums from Clipse, Tyler, Gibbs, Metro, JID, Chance, Earl etc.

Like rap is in a great place when it comes down to releases. And although 2025 took awhile to kick into high gear, 2024 had a lot of great releases as well.

Think? Lol

Yeah rap rn is alive and well and I agree with you that we luckily have some established heavy hitters that have held everything down. But in 5 years time what will happen

The day rap as a genre truly dies, is the day it stops innovating and being creative as a whole and pigeonholes itself into obscurity, which is basically what happened to Rock music on a mainstream level after the 2000's, its not gonna be because the genre is carried by 30 and 40 year olds.

The thing is, black people as artists are so damn talented and creative when challenged that I dont think rap will ever end up like how Rock did.

Declining?

Mfers not listening to the music dropping

not true dave blunts exists

Thats what I'm saying, he better than both

"Hip Hop is declining" or "Hip Hop is falling off" Was every youtuber's thesis or music "journalist"s talking point like a year ago because there was a month or two where hip hop wasn't completely dominating Billboard and charts so it empowered timothy twitter fingers to put on their doomer hats and parrot whatever youtuber they watched "opinion" on how Rome is burning because Drake's Teeny bopper music was #13 instead of #8

all them been around for a decade plus

They all suck im just being real with you they all suck
Baby keem sucks the least out of those 3 but still

Then the Kendrick and Drake Beef became the talking point of a nation/world in a collective moment which we really don't get anymore as a species and all those dipshits shut the f*** up about how hip hop is dead .
OP's "argument" comes from this youtube video where a "rap generation" died because truthfully so, We did have an era of rappers pass away way too early but I think the fact that we still talk about X or Juice like that is a testament to their legacy and impact, Pac died at 25. Think about it

Rap was in a really s*** place in 2023 but the last couple years have been a return to form

Yeah a lot of rappers died, but it’s not like some of them weren’t going to start making music in another genre, if they got tired of rapping.

Juice was the greatest freestyler of all time.

“Hip-hop is dead” has been a thing for decades

RIP to juice but he was kinda falling off already. Especially with Death Race To Love

I don’t think he would’ve made that much impact if he was still making music today.

Whilst xxx was just getting started with Moonlight & Sad. He had INSANE potential

I think pretty soon there will be a resurge of lyricism

just listen to the f***ing music there are multiple lifetimes of great music to listen to.. mfers spoiled frfr

It could be that as a genre goes on it splinters off into different sub genres and loses its identity? Because then you are dividing the fanbase up into cliques. And rap has so many different sounds and styles it might be the worst genre for this to happen to.

The genre isn’t dead it’s just divided into too many parts

it’s crazy this site has managed to make a variation of this same thread every week

Live Laugh Love out now.