Mainstream rap same as Kendrick Lamar , J cole

Fax, thats what separates me from liking certain rappers, I grew up hip hop, I am hip hop, but of course I incorporate other elements of cultures. I dont like it when its the other way around, when people in a way "gentrify" hip hop culture or appropriate it

Some of it is good

Streaming era has really been bad to music in general but I'm not gonna sit here n complain. Just gonna go back to what I like and play it for myself

Alternative rap

only problem with this is that we're producing new genres too fast and too furious to label.

cloud rap drill ( chicago now new york) mumble rap happy rap
trap, "trap" EDM trap, emo rap, . . . ringtone rap,(it keeps going)

it would be alright if the subgenre's got some time to actually distinguish themselves and their fanbases for a decade but
we're chasing hits.

I didn’t see JPEG on there though? I was just commenting on the albums he did provide, bc I usually just see him mention Kanye and pop music lol.

yea idk where he got jpegmafia from

S*** really his voice a instrument

Which artists in your opinion would you guys say are the posterchildren for this?

Let's see some differing opinions

Everything I've heard is absolutely trash to my ears and reeks of cringe. But I'm ngl if someone likes it that's fine , they have their own opinion and taste. I just think its weird if full fledged adults listening to it and have that app

. . . DANNY BROWN

that's my nigga I hate it had to be him.

Playboi Carti
Travis Scott
Post Malone
Migos
Cardi B

I can keep naming a bunch but I don't want to piss people off. They arent bad artists but just their main demographic is definitely the "yeah I listen to all these guys I have a great taste in rap" tier people aka white high school kids, and people who are surface tier casuals

You don't think non hip-hop fans overrate hip-hop music influenced by mostly white music

nigga we been seen ya rym we saw u have hpegmafia's album higher than ready to die

carti was def making trap in 2015-16 he had the subject matter and even then i’m not talking about trap

Hmmmmm true. But metal did that. Btw metal has like over 50 sub genres and rock has quite a few aswell. With rap I think we have a few core actual sub genres

Conscious Rap
Street Rap
Melodic/Mumble Rap
Lyrical Rap
Drill Rap
Pop Rap(mainstream to the max)
Alternative or expirmental rap

What’s mainstream right now is the melodic/mumble rap or just very fun songs over trap beats. Also street rap has a strong core on YouTube aswell. I don’t think where
Moving tooo fast being the last genre of rap we got was mumble/melody in 2016 and it seems like NY bringing drill back a little. If we had sub genres being on paper it wouldn’t be as much arguments and OGs and old heads saying “hip hop dead” “these kids don’t like bars” etc.

so
i have a lot of albums rated higher than ready to die

basic as f*** lol, niggas like y'all is why the bar is set so low for this genre

Na 2014 carti was. SC carti was actually goat af

rt

I like that we're having these discussions though, cause it puts things in perspective, some of us really care about the culture, and it shows we are getting smarter as minorities, we have to take ownership of our creations so we can be the ones who benefit the most from it.

Let all people enjoy it, appropriate it, etc. , as long as we are the ones seeing those big bags. Not the whites at the top who aint have no part in this creation

street rap is just what E40 boosie and people selling mixtapes out the trunk have been doing for decades.

so that's kind of kin to independent Idk man. we're a young genre too.