Troy Ave Stan

5mo

Country really is as American as possible, makes sense why they pushing it

Better like that anyways, half yall suburbans gonna stop supporting that mysterious rap and real rap will get a chance to show out

Whatcouldgowrong

5mo

This song getting played in more bars, and night clubs than any sabrina carpenter record

Plight

5mo

If Atlantic signs Melz as general manager rap could be saved

Deezed

5mo

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)

Plight

5mo

If Atlantic signs Melz as general manager rap could be saved

Peace Kid

5mo

country
even drizzy had to bend the knee and move to TX

Deezed

5mo

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)

Expert

5mo

Karol G just did a bigger tour than Drake in 2023 in US. It's always people who don't go to tours/shows talking on the internet. S*** was a stadium tour.

Maybe not in mid cities but LA/Miami/NY/Houston they bumping Feid heavy at all major clubs.

Plight

5mo

If Atlantic signs Melz as general manager rap could be saved

Aquilla

5mo

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Historically, black folks have always been at the forefront of these developments. So, I'm excited to see what we venture into. I definitely hear an influence of Dance, House, and Electro Funk going around. This, in particular to the younger artists I've been listening to. So, a merger of that would be sick

Don't get me wrong, I love Hip Hop but it's time is coming more than most people like to admit. We've been spoiled by it's dominance, to the point where we think it will stay on top forever. Same thing happened with Jazz and Rock. It'll be phased out by something cooler and defiant: that's insane to me but it's going to occur one way or another.

R&B/Soul is always going to be the genre that'll continue to be fluid and adaptable. It's going to be popular but it's not gonna compete against the titan, per say.

Freight

5mo

Karol G's North American (US & Canada) tour absolutely was not bigger than Drake's lmao

Peace Kid

5mo

country
even drizzy had to bend the knee and move to TX

Valentine

5mo

But will that slight growth of other genres sustain and keep growing or will everyone just now be at the same level with only the stars sticking out and listeners settling for their preferred genre?

superstar

5mo

The latter, being that the causes of this go beyond music

Valentine

5mo

So to the original post, is this then a fault of rap for underperforming or simply regressing to an established mean of most other genres after upholding it all at a high consumption rate for a long time? Like I think we overreact to what’s happening in rap and overreact to other genres slightly performing better than where rap has regressed to

We’ll have to see how the rest of the decade plays out, but I bet when everyone is getting consumed at the same level, for some reason, there is gonna be discussion around hiphop struggling even tho now it’s just performing like everyone else.

unfortunatetruth

5mo

The female rap push is because women actually stream and buy more merch , go to more tours then men do. Look on a site like Rostr for Male/Female splits of any Top 10 Monthly Listeners on Spotify and it will mostly all be female majority.

Iron Lion Zion

5mo

And female acts are more likely to be compliant to do whatever record labels want in pursuit of money and fame

Plight

5mo

If Atlantic signs Melz as general manager rap could be saved

lonny860

5mo

Travis Scott sold 361K off a 10 year old project. Merch bundles or not, he almost out charted Sabrina Carpenter. Carti will sell a bunch of records. Kendrick at the Super Bow shows the obvious cultural reach the genre still has..but rap isn’t trending. Ight bro. Streamers are literally building their careers reacting and being adjacent to rap. Some of the biggest podcasts are centered around rap.

We forever are moving the goal post on this as rap literally gets bigger and bigger culturally. You can hear the influence in most popular genres.

The real issue? Some may just be conditioned to downplay the influence.

xxxkiraxxx

5mo

Hopefully more West Asian/Middle Eastern acts, too. I wonder if we could pull off something like Reggaeton or Afrobeats - music that is cultural, fly, modern without losing uniqueness & accessible. Might need to work on something like that myself :jayhah: