the death of the major label will be better for hiphop than the continued growth of it

interesting to see what's next for the music industry. pop and country is King now tho

would you want the genre to be national/global or just have music that's "great" but only liked by a niche group

Too late for that the culture of Hip Hop is too f***ed up is no more growth

well labels have been raping the culture for like 3 decades now and went into overdrive for the past decade

we'll see what happens as these labels die

i'm here for the music bro

This was an issue already tho like like UMG laid off people last year it was all in the rap offices.

Generally speaking when economy on the downturn you see what's considered expendable and across the board it seems to be rap.

give some examples

also "going national/global" can go f*** itself

nothing to be proud of letting ur genre wipe out local cultures and replacing them with cheap offensive copies of ur own s***

I wouldn't even blame them exclusively tho just the culture of Hip Hop hit a point where it's just not functional because of the fanbase.

Once you hit a place where the main consumers of Hip Hop don't wanna hear niggas rap or write they raps it was dead.

Even if major labels leave the fans will still be there

The one I just mentioned UMG which is the largest label in the world if the biggest music company says "we have to cut jobs" and then cuts I think 60% of Def Jam and that was mainly it that's a bad sign on how they value rap.

This being another one it's just not good looks

nicki said it months ago in like december

I know the execs hate her they thought they hit a lick and she would be keeping the lights on for years after 2018’loln

The whole label getting dropped

Really is the worst market ever for all the arts

BTW its wrong to think that because the top 20 artists are doing fine, it's all OK

It's really not

Music, film, fine art, all of it is currently getting f***ed in one aspect or another

I'm a painter, as my job, and I can tell you it's miserable out there. I've only been full time since covid though which is funny because I haven't known a decent market.

What drags me down is every older artist I know saying they've never seen it in such a mess

The only thing I benefit from is the fact that there cannot be a streaming service for oil paintings, you cant experience it properly without seeing it in person

What sucks though are these 'experiences' that keep cropping up in local city (London). They take people like van gogh or monet or Turner and turn their paintings into giant animated projections, they tour around selling themselves as the 'monet experience' or something, despite the fact that they show zero actual paintings. All it does is present to people the idea that the works aren't good enough on their own, which is f***ing offensive to the artists who made them as static images. I just think s*** like this erodes the image of the nature of art in the public eye bit by bit just in the name of spectacle and ticket sales

Sorry for the rant but, hard times I guess

when i make an nft of your whole catalog

I think it would be better if the best music from all genres was up and up, and no one genre reigned supreme

I think this would lead to more good artists

However the more tired n stale Taylor gets the bigger her fan base gets so idk

You can, but it's not the same, I feel bad for digital artists who had to deal with that crazy s***

^this is the problem across every discipline

consumerism has perverted all this s***

Bruh 😂😂😂😂 you guys fr?

A commercial decline is probably good for hip hop tbh

This is actually a good thing. Hip hop thrives when it’s not in the spotlight

Yeah keep it up I need mfs to think there is 0 money in music

The middle class is shrinking in all forms of art. You either a smash hit or there isn't room for you

The industry has killed the creator, I’ll be the first to say

To each exec’ I’m saving your children, we can’t negotiate