These underground rappers are getting younger and younger. Every day we hear about a new 12-year-old who is tearing the game up. Older rappers are also trying to sound like children by pitching their voice up. What is causing this phenomenon?

There are more teenage rappers than ever before, but less teenage pop stars. What's up with that?

rap juss too easy if you know what you're doing

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Millennials want to be babies forever. That's why they sit around living vicariously through these 8 year old rage artists talking about their 'aura'.

this happens everywhere, look at football for example

It hasn't always been the norm in music. Lil Bow Wow was a novelty in the 90s, now he would be one out of a million other child rappers.

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because this is the core audience now

Are you not familiar with Bow Wow/Lil Romeo/Wayne era…

There was multiple kid rappers that were actually mainstream and huge then. I don’t see anything like that today.

As for underground, modern technology and streaming has caused making rap music so accessible that I’m sure there’s more aspiring rappers in general period (for any demographic: age, gender, race, etc) than ever before. You could find aspiring rappers in Ukraine.

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Three artists do not constitute an era, especially in the mid-90s/00s when the mainstream was much broader and more diverse than it is today. They weren't at the forefront of their respective scenes the way child and teenage rappers are now, and there was NOTHING like the 'underground' of today, which is filled with children and teenagers, and stops listening to rappers after they turn 20

“underground rappers”
“everyday we hear”
“tearing the game up”

Just an insane amount of cap in the OP

Who are you talking about?

What world u living in to hear about a new 12 year old tearing the game up every day

Drake was 20 when he started. Ken and Yeat are 25 and look 40

yes exactly, it’s been changing but this aint no hip hop phenomenon - it’s the commercialisation of literally any and everything, the earlier you get to it the more money is in it

What child rapper is at the forefront of their scene currently?

log off and stop making up millennials to be mad at

? are we gonna act like kids haven't been trying to rap since forever? Inspired by what they saw outside back in the day, to now what's available to them on the internet?

nas made illmatic at 20, which includes some bars he made up when he was 16. you think he wasn't rapping as a kid/pre-teen?

The tech to make music is more accessible than ever.

Drake gets his vocals pitched up

If the technology was made back then they def would’ve been putting music out just like the kids today do. Most rappers from back in the day said they started in elementary and junior high.

I was more of a music nerd at this age than I am now. I will not judge them

nearly ten years ago

lot of rappers been debuting in their teens since day dot