It's still dominant urban wise it's just top heavy af. The issue is we are in DEEP trouble when the current regime calls it quits. You got...

Kendrick, Drake, Cole, Future, Travis, Kanye, Em, and maybe Carti and Uzi

then there's a large ass gap

Lil Baby, Durk, and Gunna, 21, Rod Wave

Everyone else is so culturally irrevelant or uncreative that they don't matter. And it's a few niggas in group 2 that are on the chopping block tbh

On a second note it's absolutely crazy that there's really no new rappers that are at the superstar level like many of those guys were when they were only in the game for a little while.

Pop music and country music. Plus maybe we'll see the resurgence of rock. Rap music will never die but the commercialization of it is dying a slow painful death right now.

How tf do you not put Tyler in Tier 1, he belongs there too

It’s literally the radio right now , every day feels like throw back Thursday on the radio station now smh

wasian indie artists this nigga amorydamus with it

Rap got hoed out by alot of future big name stars dying years ago.

rap fans scaring the hoes away

Rap would've been on a similar trajectory if Juice World/Smoke lived. The industry itself is garbage, there was no way to avoid this fate

Lmaoo bro yall say this in every thread and it was three niggas only two of which would have had a “different” sound potentially lol

And this year’s been about in Rap is beef and Diddy. Let the other genres cook

As soon as street/social media rap became popular, labels started signing everyone and their dumb ass mom to terrible deals. And the thing is, even with the label having the 100% advantage, they were still losing money, left and right, cause of how fast these s***ty acts were falling off(and how labels needed to hold these artists hand, financially and business wise).

They always wanted dumb/naive rap artist, not as expensive as a business wise, already proven commodity, but money still needs to be spent on these people cause of how inexperienced they are. Not to mention, their audiences don't care to even spend money on these acts, the only time one of their fans might see them live is at a festival with 20 order acts.

The business model for the rap industry is f***ed, and it's really the labels fault at the end of the day

Yes you can definitely tell there is a concentrated effort to ice rap out.

If you think about all the big rap artist's that have been pushed since 2020 have been all female.

Last real male rap superstars we had were X,Peep n Juice

Facts. X might have been a superstar, he was insanely popular. The other two would have either not adapt to the times or flame out in some shape or form.

Also, would the K.Dot Vs Drake be as magnified with those 3 still around or nah?

words arent needed, one day ktt will accept the objectivity of numbers

lemme tell u, if ur job performance was the hiphop line and u had a 50% decrease in performance over the past 3 years, your boss (labels) are gonna slash your salary or put u on indefinite leave (shelving your albums)

I forgot Tyler lmao

White women

Yep, also, almost no modern Hip Hop acts really appeal to white women. And I'm not talking about that one white girl that likes rap music

House, aftobeat, country and pop

Realistically Afrobeat will be more of an underground thing, since it’s very politically conscious

The other genre , Afrobeats is what is starting to take off cuz it’s more party like and digestible , but it’s still gonna get chewed out by the machine eventually too

nightmare blunt rotation

Bring back Metalcore and NuMetal

Need RnB to be more dominant again

Lmao damn it’s really niggas who HAVE never lived in a world where this wasn’t the case

Honestly, it has to be a completely new genre imo. A lot of the genres y'all mentioned are genres that have been around for years (Pop, Afrobeats), insular in nature (Country), or completely gentrified (House).

It's definitely something that we're not use to yet. It's coming tho. The 30 year music cycle hasn't failed yet. We're probably seeing the last signs of relevance for Hip Hop until something pops off.