whothehellknows

2y

I dont think rap will fully ever "die"anymore, that kind of thinking in this day and age is just limiting the genre overall

Now the real question is: is the culture dead? I think it might be, doesn't feel like a lot of heart and sould goes into the genre lately, but 2013 on was a real Renaissance for the genre if you think about it. 10 years is a long time not to be stagnant and that goes for any genre

BRAVE

2y

Man I know this is not how you interpreted that. I said that’s what people can prop up now they’re more open minded to non hiphop stuff cause hiphop going lame left a hole

BrickellBayside

2y

I don’t think Hip-Hop is dying as much as I think the commercialization of the entertainment business as a whole is dying a slow death

If you can’t create superstars, I.e. creating artists, actor, and actresses, who people want to put their money behind, then obviously it’s going to die at some point.

Social media has killed it. I think the entire industry completely underrated how important romanticism and mystique is to the success of the industry. Talent doesn’t matter as much as ppl think as it pertains to the success of the business. Without the ability to create new stars the industry will kill itself.

Bergrat

2y

Its cause the new gen cant deliver the new superstars or they died

Abyss

2y

I've said this in some other thread but it’s also because we couldn’t find any successor to Drake. Drake is already 15 years in the game. Most new rap artists don’t want to be mainstream rappers anymore like Drake, Wayne, Ye. They just want to just be popular in their niche like Yeat, Destroy Lonely etc.

Mountain Dude

2y

What actually happened is that there is no more homogenized pop culture. Everything now is catered to individuals so without that community, everyone just goes their own way.

HOV INNOCENT

2y

It’s not hip hop. Culture is dead. There will never be a vital music or art movement again

Latin music isn’t the replacement, social media is. People will still listen to music but the need for it isn’t the same. Social media has replaced the desire for art for most regular people. Music is just a secondary thing, something for the background of a meme.

In the past decade, any intelligence and consciousness of the public has been conditioned out. Art can’t thrive in these conditions.

The corporations won

Sell

2y

This s*** Dead fr but if in the next couple years it doesn’t have a shift it’s gonna end up just like rock music something for the people that lived through it can just reminisce that’s why even ice cube is trying to do corridos bruh knows this s*** dead and needs to make a bag somehow even if how he approaches it is trash

Prbz

2y

Nigga weren't you supposed to drop an album?

babylon sherm

2y

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Rap can’t be dying. Did jazz die or did it get turned into elevator music by lizard people & artists got embarrassed? Is jazz dead now? If anything rap fans are high on the fat of the land from it’s rampant successes on every front. We f***ing suck. Support an indie artist in any way beyond streaming service pocket change lately? Not really. Looking for artists beyond the first page of your streaming service? Not really. Found any artists you like that didn’t get to you by a viral meme or someone getting a check to be Cool? Not really. Going to see local talent in your area? Not really. Having constructive discussions about the music you do listen to? Not really. The biggest rap forum and our definition of writing creatively is either who can post the dumbest or quippiest s*** possible. Our attempts at being poetic or critical towards the art or artists rarely ever seem to go without some degree of irony or snideness. When it’s done in sincerity, it’s usually about the same 20 albums that everyone here grew up with. 90% of all music conversation here is either going “this is dope!” “This sucks!” about something generally already discussed enough to guarantee replies day after day. We say rap media sucks, and it does, so who does better? How many times do you see “the blog era”, “new blog era” etc come up here? Pretty much daily. Can we name one rap blog we read regularly? No, but we can give you the most annoying explanation possible about how blogs aren’t blogs any more, they’re tastemakers, it’s fine that all I watch is ads because ads replaced the independent writing I’m nostalgic for, following the business of the ads is actually more stimulating than the music LMFAO This site emulates the rap journalism and rap media it hates in every way, constantly. We parrot it back and forth to each other, adopt it as jokes, make it a meme, grow nostalgic and warm towards it, fall in love with the old ways of marketing and pine for them to return. That’s healthy? That’s how the major artistic achievement of the 21st century stays alive, let alone popular? Rap can’t die, it can only be abandoned and returned to. But people in this thread will tell you it’s dead, art is dead, it’s not worth it anymore. Well, shut this s*** down then

Prbz

2y

Nigga weren't you supposed to drop an album?

hyphen

2y

Won't speak on whether this means the game is 'dying,' but they pointed out a surprising fact on the last Joe Budden:

There hasn't been a rap album that's been #1 on the Billboard chart yet this year, and that's the longest stretch that's happened since 2009

Caun

2y

It died when ye fell of tbh

Lord Quas

2y

Y'all need to broaden your horizon's fr fr...

HOV INNOCENT

2y

It’s not hip hop. Culture is dead. There will never be a vital music or art movement again

Latin music isn’t the replacement, social media is. People will still listen to music but the need for it isn’t the same. Social media has replaced the desire for art for most regular people. Music is just a secondary thing, something for the background of a meme.

In the past decade, any intelligence and consciousness of the public has been conditioned out. Art can’t thrive in these conditions.

The corporations won