Are we experiencing a shift in Rap?

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  • Sep 3, 2025
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    If Carti wasnt so mysterious and would give out more features people would get that he is running rap right now.

    He is the hottest feature in rap right now.

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    Jim Halpert

    Yeah. This is more about how listeners have been conditioned to not sit with albums.

    I do think it’s starting to correct itself as labels and artists see the downfall of this trend mainly from subscription based music consumption.

    I hope companies put back value into physical and digital download sales

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    Kee

    I hope companies put back value into physical and digital download sales

    Would be hard to teach an entire generation to not use their phones for music because they’re used to the convenience.

    But would be so worth it.

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    Jim Halpert

    Would be hard to teach an entire generation to not use their phones for music because they’re used to the convenience.

    But would be so worth it.

    Idk, I was at my local Target and saw teens younger than me looking at CDs and Vinyls.

    Maybe it's niche right now, but I have hope it'll grow eventually.

    When Apple stopped promoting iTunes and went towards promoting Apple Music. Everything changed :(

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    Kee

    Idk, I was at my local Target and saw teens younger than me looking at CDs and Vinyls.

    Maybe it's niche right now, but I have hope it'll grow eventually.

    When Apple stopped promoting iTunes and went towards promoting Apple Music. Everything changed :(

    Problem with that is cars don’t even have CD players anymore and laptops don’t have CD drives

    The killing of iTunes really was the nail in the coffin. Took away peoples ability to have their own years long built up library that’s all theirs.

    Instead they have to rent music and not really have any of it of their own.

    Same with buying a movie digitally. You don’t really own that s*** lol Amazon is licensing it to you

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    Nah like agc really a classic most of it still better but not EVERY song
    Man that album is INSANELY GOOD WHAT THE F***

  • Sep 3, 2025
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    Kee

    Uzi sold 59k with EA

    Gunna sold 80k with The Last Wun

    Lil Baby sold 70k less than his last album (with bad reception)

    And nobody takes Yeat seriously as an artist outside of hypebeast niggas.

    Future, Carti, and Travis are the few niggas that can probably survive the next 5 years.

    And with Trav, Idk if he'll be able to continue finessing the machine any longer

    U said 70-80k like that’s not good lol

    Plenty of people love Yeat he’s just not a critical darling or like by old heads
    The truth is everyone named is doing very well including clipse

    The people ACTUALLY moving the sound tho is of course the younger folks tho
    Yeat had a commercial peak last year and is 5 years into his career I don’t see why the doubt

    Using sales for this anyways is silly. Was chief keef not running s*** in his prime? He didn’t even chart

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    Kee

    Idk, I was at my local Target and saw teens younger than me looking at CDs and Vinyls.

    Maybe it's niche right now, but I have hope it'll grow eventually.

    When Apple stopped promoting iTunes and went towards promoting Apple Music. Everything changed :(

    CDs and vinyls are collectors items for us they r p cool

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    Bobby_96

    I think the "shift" people are talking about is how dry mainstream rap has been this year which has caused people to pay more attention to the Indie, underground, or legacy act albums.

    In 2022, we were fed very well but rap had more mainstream dominance on the radio and Billboard back then which made things feel more segmented.

    But I was bumping albums from many of the same artists OP named on top of Denzel, Vince, Lupe, Black Thought, Benny, Black Star, Logic(yes....he dropped a dope one), Boldy James, Little Simz, and many more.

    Because rap was more dominant though, the niggas who were digging through the digital crates and those who were mainly focusing on mainstream s*** were more separated compared to today.

    Now, even Drake is having trouble making his new hits stick and it's been pretty dry in the mainstream overall which gives people more time to focus on other types of rap. A very similar thing happened in 2014 too.

    Totally agree first half of 2025 def felt like that which also gave room for a whole crop of new artists interestingly I think it’s important to have these periods

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    Poolboy Q

    They are heavyweights but I think that persons right that they’re just having their comeback.

    Kendrick is the better example of someone who would shift the culture possibly

    And maybe a culture shift doesn’t have to necessarily be caused by the music. What if allot of our culture shifts had an underlying cause like instruments, DAWs, YouTube/SoundCloud, etc. We used to use turntables and spray graffiti; now we tweet disses and buy designer. Maybe the actual culture itself has to change before the music can.

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    A real shift gotta come from the youth that’s when you know it’s real

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    whitegirl

    I cant blame them if i wasnt tapped in id think hip hop fell off too

    you ain't tapped into s*** lmfao

  • Sep 3, 2025
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    WESLEYS THEORY

    Clipse doing 118K first week speaks for itself

    It was a great moment (and album) fueled by nostalgia (ba dum tss)
    They're not a part of this "shift" yall claim is happening or want to see happen

    Yall need to be championing new artist to do whatever you want to see in hip hop
    It won't happen cause people in their 30s bought Clipse merch by KAWS

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    BonelessWings

    If Carti wasnt so mysterious and would give out more features people would get that he is running rap right now.

    He is the hottest feature in rap right now.

    Part of him being one of the hottest features is because he’s mysterious

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    ConductorWHAP

    you ain't tapped into s*** lmfao

    U jus yappin

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    JKill

    Part of him being one of the hottest features is because he’s mysterious

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    BonelessWings

    When an artist is able to get Carti on a song it immediately stands out, If he was handing out features left and right it wouldn’t hit the same.

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    Andre Jaquet

    Nah like agc really a classic most of it still better but not EVERY song
    Man that album is INSANELY GOOD WHAT THE F***

    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE

    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVEEEEEEEEEEE

  • This a good year for hip hop for people that’s been in the spotlight for a decade plus

  • Sep 3, 2025
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    I always hope for a shift in hip-hop but I doubt it

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    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE

    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVE
    THE WAY SHE MOVEEEEEEEEEEE

    that song is SO underrated what a beautiful track that and KUSHMOKE IN MY LUNGS
    TATTOOS ON MY NECK AND ON MY ARM

  • Sep 3, 2025
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    JKill

    Part of him being one of the hottest features is because he’s mysterious

    it sucks but this the truth when it comes to artists like frank or carti. there’s anomalies like yeat or future who can constantly crank out music who are just about as equally big however, in order to constantly drop as much as they do requires them to constantly evolve their sound so listeners don’t get fatigued which is tough af, or you could take the drake route and get criticized for always dropping the same album.

  • Sep 3, 2025
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    Andre Jaquet

    that song is SO underrated what a beautiful track that and KUSHMOKE IN MY LUNGS
    TATTOOS ON MY NECK AND ON MY ARM

    yea completely have no idea why he hasn’t tried to capitalize off that sound
    it’s bcos of sht like this why osama has been able to completely overtake his lane

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    it sucks but this the truth when it comes to artists like frank or carti. there’s anomalies like yeat or future who can constantly crank out music who are just about as equally big however, in order to constantly drop as much as they do requires them to constantly evolve their sound so listeners don’t get fatigued which is tough af, or you could take the drake route and get criticized for always dropping the same album.

    Yeat is nowhere near as big or good as the other 4 artists mentioned

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    SpiderMan

    Yeat is nowhere near as big or good as the other 4 artists mentioned

    hes pretty great it depends on ur preference
    up 2 me, 2 alive, 2093, a dangerous summer are all great and contain rly cool progression

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