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    why does every person that makes this thread for the like 1000th time act like they’re saying something really bold and brave

  • POMPEII / UTILITY OUT NOW

  • Sir Real

    why does every person that makes this thread for the like 1000th time act like they’re saying something really bold and brave

    Yall b**** about anything. How is observering current state of rap “bold and brave” shut yo ass up

  • Smacked Voodoo

    Yeah so anyway It's Been Awful and Cry Baby are great

    Op said rap not alternative

  • G Herbo the best out

  • No

    It just means the next artist(s) to break thru and crack the code gonna hit like crack

    The mainstream era of rap may be dead. The post monoculture algorithm era is just beginning/the first algorithm superstar who sets the meta for the next 20 years the way Wayne and Kanye did is otw

  • As long as the hood still bumping it don’t matter what the charts or suburbans bumpin

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    Klutch_

    This is about mainstream hip hop and its commercial run

    Oh brother you really need to KYS

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    Every “rap is dead” thread should have an asterisk that says “btw I’m talking about sales because I’m too stupid to actually care about music”

  • Yall been crying on here ever since Brockhampton broke up, Ye spiralled and Tyler the creator lost some motion. Go back to indie music if you’re gonna keep crying about needing palatable rap music

  • Bully Deluxe tonight!

  • Troy Ave Stan

    As long as the hood still bumping it don’t matter what the charts or suburbans bumpin

    Everytime I'm in "questionable surroundings" lmao they playing old s*** though or s*** from the past 5-7 years not really newer s***

  • afterimage

    Thread would’ve went platinum in 2019/2020 with a Davidp feat

  • Dr Lee PhD

    They said assman would save us

  • Rap peaked when the Game started the "G Unot" campaign

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    eye contact

    Every “rap is dead” thread should have an asterisk that says “btw I’m talking about sales because I’m too stupid to actually care about music”

    I’m just talking about sales btw. Now get to b**** ass out the thread whining

  • afterimage

    Thread would’ve went platinum in 2019/2020 with a Davidp feat

    Goated ktt2 era iykyk

  • i would argue this maybe last year or so but these days.. yeah im inclined to agree

  • at this point the only people keeping any sort of anything going are stans and media people whose livelihoods depend on maintaining some sort of conversation

    even then that just morphed into celebrity talk

  • ty hiphop historian sir

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    Klutch_

    I’m just talking about sales btw. Now get to b**** ass out the thread whining

    Kys

  • Maybe it's time for this site to die after the Coli

    too many clowns making these stupid threads

  • Klutch_

    I’m just talking about sales btw. Now get to b**** ass out the thread whining

    because sales =/= the life of a genre

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    Dipset Forever

    because sales =/= the life of a genre

    “Rap’s run” = commercial run you dumb illiterate ass nigga. Go to underground rap threads if that’s what you wanna talk about

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