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Monoculture one especially & its not even used properly

S*** makes no sense and is only thing with 25+ yeats old adults that are out of touch, depressed and alone completing their transformation into oldhead out of touch boomer status thay knows nothing that is going on in the mainstream and day to day trends of life but got so much to say about it and thinking theyre better

Just like every other generation before us - time is a flat circle

nah we moved onto ambient

the conversation won’t end until the feeling is back

There is no rap artist who feels as important as Kendrick drake j Cole since Kendrick drake j Cole

There are reasons but I’ll leave it there

There has to be a number one of the other rap albums that are released if the above names can only drop but so often

no real new “big 3-5” like there were in every generation since “biggie Jay z or nas”

All the best rappers are the “old guys”

Boomers rise up

Carti but he’s in the Future lane where we love him but you don’t really like Carti because he’s lyrical so he not considered a “big 3” type act

i WISH its the worst convo ever it literally pops up every gen and never goes away because theres some people always aging andd getting old, we had ONE slow year and everyone wanna say that bullshit its tired and old
instead, why dont yall hop in those threads with small great fresh artists and stream those like 454, paris texas, kenny mason, k$upreme, MIKE cmon bro

I would say Carti, Travis, Uzi/21/Yak been that for a minute now but to each their own I guess

internet forums were dominated by this same f***ing bullshit in 2012, in all the 2000s, in the 2016 soundcloud era

Like can yall stop? We tired of old people having the exact same take as soon as a year slows down or gets tired. Every f***ing person on earth dropped in 2022, so yeah rap was slow in 2023. and im tired of these white video essayists talking about the state of the genre when their knowledge clearly doesnt extend beyond the average ktt poster.
KTT users have been saying "rap is dying" "oh theres no new artists" and comparing it to the 2010s since 2020 and yall act like is some new andre schulz type realization every year, as if a completely new decade needs the same formula of new artists. Just understand yall aging and want this to happen.

one of the corniest rappers alive and not nearly talented enough to have the ego he does

is it not possible it just takes longer to pop now and people dont throw out their old artists as much?

Carti is dominating everyone, when keem drops hes huge, even though tyler debuted a while ago he only fr got reintroduced to this gen in 2017 and that was a whole rebranding,
Ken carson,destroy lonely, yeat are all on a come up but yeat DOMINATED 2022 and a great chaos grew to be pretty massive in this last quarter
JID is HIM and the only lyrical rapper that is HIM right now
Yachty had a great year and his rap album will go nuts when it comes out
Gunna is dominating

theres a bigger shift than ever in generations, to those in older than 21 they may not be dominating but to the young generation LUCKI, Lone, Ken are the biggest artists in the world
Keem is huge, and we had a lot of artists that may have missed their mark but they had a p great shot just fumbled, such as lil baby and dababy completely dominating everyone else in their respective primes.

On top of that the idea of a single artist dominating is way less prevalent now because theres just way more music and the way streaming works people are in their own bubbles. Its not a matter of big 3 anymore. we arent selling records and taste crosses over less than ever.

For 2003, the only artists dominating were almost all from the mid 90s, only exception is 50 and em. DOOM hadnt got his footing yet,and almost all the rest were underground. Ghostface had been around since the wu in the early 90s, scarface was from the mid 90s,nelly had 1-2 years, ja rule was all crossovers that lasted 1-2 years, like baby but with even less credit to their role
Clipse had one hit song but far from dominating
Outkast were from the mid 90s
There was DMX? but almost everyone agrees he fell off in the 00s

History repeating itself

Don't forget we had an entire pandemic f*** up the whole momentum of music for a bit, newer artists are doing really well all things considered

Got a good thread idea for 1/1/24

Brother, 6 years is 2017 to 2023. I never once said rappers who specifically blew up in the 2020's at all.

Your whole point is somewhat invalidated by the fact that you totally misread me.

But I guess "post Big 3/Blog Era" rappers made more sense for me to specify. It's about to be 2024 and Drake, Kendrick, Travis, Future, Nikki, and Cole are still bigger draws than many of today's rap superstars.

Maybe the likes of Yeat, Ken Carson, Lucki, JID, Keem, Rod Wave, etc. will carry the genre on their back and uphold its mainstream popularity in the future but the stats ain't really lining up to that reality.

no you were very clear, I just very clearly dismantled what you said and you brushed past the entire thing. Nobody misread anything, I attacked how this question is misguided and plenty are dominating now.

Nicki isnt dominating s***, cole hasnt dropped in 3 years
I knew you were gonna say kendrick travis and drake are popping, thats literally irrelevant to what you were saying though older rappers doing well doesnt maen anything to what i said
adress everything i said
AND BY THE WAY, dominance isnt just measured by sales. This is a new thought, sosa was a dominant force in the early 10s, finally rich sold only 1k more than ken carson did this year
Of course the established rappers with years of label power behind them especially a force like drake is gonna sell the most. The realness of sales nowadays is even being disputed. But yes they are the biggest, doesnt discredit the new artists who arent even supposed to be the biggest. Again it takes more time to pop now

Does anyone else just not care whether the genre is ‘hot’ or not? That will not stop the music and if anything filter out the outsiders using it as a free meal ticket and jumping ship from the ones in it for the craft

I know how surface level of a take this is but it’s true

i salute ur integrity

lil yachty is not my fave!

never heard of the guy in my life

i mean both actually pretty dead and a handful of anomalous events are not proof otherwise @op. haven’t seen barbie nor oppenheimer myself nor have i listened to a note of morgan wallen willingly. but i agree it’s a topic that’s been talked about to death and is annoying to hear the phrases regurgitated over and over as opposed to, you know, solutions or alternatives being proposed or just realizing it’s not THAT serious to begin with and is essentially another result of late capitalism eating itself as it was always wont to do

i for one hardly listen to anything what’s charting so idc either way, a lot of great stuff came out this year in every corner outside of the mainstream

seeing paragraphs of texts coping

people cant not discuss redundant dumb s*** they think they know anything about any year

Theres no equivalent of 08-09 wayne in 2023