Counterpoint: J Cole albums where the vocals plus drums drown out all other instruments

That’s not up to streaming to decide that’s between the artist and whoever they want to collab with and what arrangements they made prior

yeah why did this suddenly become a thing in the last year or so

Amazing great songs with crazy potential that are somehow less than 2 minutes.

I will never forget when I first heard "when to say when" by Drake

started with me nerding out over the sample from "Song Cry" and very quickly blue balled with those disgusting ass drums

^^^
couldn't agree more...especially on older CDs. when i burned some my rap albums on iTunes, they'd be under the artist name instead of the song so i'd have to go back in the settings and manually edit myself. it's so f***ing annoying

lazy songwriting and lack of themes in their music even on a general level

I can give a pass in one sense bc i know everyone doesn't make conceptual albums but listening to someone's song I hate that I as a fan can tell it was completely freestyled. One bar you're pro black, next line you'll spin the block 'til a nigga's momma cries, next bar you need a girl to hold you down, next bar you'll never love a thot, you can tell that most rappers don't care about the message they put in their music anymore. just wanna complete the track and make a catchy hook

VERY ANNOYING!
hate having to manually change it in my computer but every label does it to boost streams bc it shows up on multiple streaming service profiles

Thats like most of Chris Brown’s albums

that sounds horrible

Minimalist and short notice rollouts
Why do you even care?

No originality in new rappers. Everyone wants to be the next Drake and Kendrick no one wants to be themselves
New rappers don’t copy Drake and Kendrick lol

people with the same tired takes regarding modern hip hop

on spotify your numbers for all your songs are public and you have monthly listeners public as well.

when you have a collab, the person uploading has the option to select you as a feature or a main artist. there’s really no difference between how these things look on spotify (on apple music it’ll say & or feat) but if you’re only featured, the numbers are only shown on the person who uploaded its page. if you are selected as a main artist, the song appears on your spotify and everyone who listens each month is added to your monthly listeners.

i know someone who’s top song as 100k plays but they produced and did the hook for a song and gave it to another rapper. the rapper ended up blowing up and got 2 million streams. but it’s only boosted his page, not the guy who actually gave the song to him lmao

spotify should automatically make it so that all features appear on the artists pages and show in their numbers. a lot of people only look as big as they look monthly listeners wise because they had features that exploded

Fantano types who think they’re musically superior and can come into a genre they just got hip to last decade and call shots

this was very noticeable on Heavens EP

kinda defeated the point of using the pipe down beat

The unnecessary beat switches on every track. We get it

Also interludes that are like 40 sec longs and are the best songs on an album.

old niggas

they're not copying drake and kendrick.

Too many cats on that drum less wave and they do it with the most boring ass loops ever

Too many cats be rapping way too fast to the point of you not being able to understand what the f*** they're even saying. On top of that the mixing and mastering be ass too along with that.

Well Future or Young Thug whatever the point still stands. No one has anything unique to bring it's always derivative from what someone else is already doing and not trying to find themselves

nigga im 42 what are you talking about

nice