The other genres don't have to reach hip-hop's peak for the existence of their growths to be acknowledged

The stats are literally public information, go read the report

Seen em live twice this year

Sensational R&B mursic

But I listed other artists in my other comment who all debuted >2018 so now what? We just gonna keep focusing on Travis cole and dot, or the other 6 rappers I listed? Lol

it's fire

unironically great grilling music oto

You’ll see when the next Em DMX 50 Kanye Mixtape Weezy etc tier moment/run happens lol

All of the rhetoric around rap falling off can be boiled down to no one is “going for it”, niggas preserving their brand or trying to fit into “the underground” (which ironically goes against the concept of an underground lol)

S***s just not exciting bro

I need hip hop to give me consistent greatness (my top 3 albums of the year so far are not hip hop. It took months for GENA to even have competition and that album dropped at the top of the year imo) for it to be a great year.

I felt last year had more variety and people putting their best foot forward (e.g. Earl dropping his magnum opus last year versus doing a Lucki impression. Which is still good Andre don't kill me but I still play Live Laugh Love over Pompeii all the time)

we don't even need something fresh. people just gotta rap their ass off in a palatable way that's how all the legends became legends

livelaughlove is so f***in good man it's like a hug

2025 was good too.

sometimes I feel like you niggas just want hiphop to be dead to confirm your biases that this s*** just ass to you today, which is also okay to say!

I mean who is gonna make that run at this point

i think people got too smart for their own good. like the idea of a roll out and everything is so engrained the music gets lost

I wonder if this changes the deals underground rappers get now. They make the least accessible form of rap music and it’s more clear now that it’s not a place that will birth future superstars like uzi or carti anymore

long and well executed roll outs

Deante never grabbed my attention

It's Kenny Mason as far as the (supposed to be) biggest thing to be from Atlanta.

uzi and carti are future superstars?

you morphing into Andre dawg lmao.

saw them at Young World. That s*** was FIRE. Karriem has the meanest pocket.

lol sorry man

iceman was an excellent rollout, fall off great rollout, music great roll out. it just feels like people wanna build the world around the music more than focusing on just being a great rapper. like we all buy into their rollouts because they were great first

went to 6 rap tours last year and 4 in just the last 7 months from artists of different age ranges, crowd sizes and relevance but niggas tell you hiphop dead cause of some streaming numbers smdh niggas stink off twitter ass a***ysis

i consider uzi one of the greatest rappers of all time and a borderline legacy act atp

Sorry bro we're not hyping up a group that has gained their most talking discussion over someone spilling semen on a female pedophile

feels like these kind of articles are made on purpose as well

both those dudes have been releasing music that a lot of people have listened to for over a decade

They’re superstars rn that existed in the underground a decade ago amongst other artists who blew up like pump or x. That mainstream potential is really lacking in the underground now. I’m sorry, but Osamason or Nettspend are most likely never reaching that point, even though they’re in a position primed to blow up