NOT SAYING RAP IS DYING SOON

Not really sure of the specific birth/death of rock music but I feel it’s safe to say that from the 60’s-00’s rock lived and died. So about a solid 40 years.

Rap I def have a more clear idea of. In the late 70’s was the conception of hip hop that quickly blossomed into its own.

40 years later and it’s now present day. Def not in the same place it was before. Still strong. Still thriving despite what some conservative old heads may think

They grow up so fast 🥲

im sure this thread won't be divisive!

the irony of comparing rock and rap and the video used for the rap example is aesthetically paying homage to rock

rock is dead and rap is dying because everyone wants to be a rockstar

lmao

thanks to wayne and kanye? lol

Rap isn’t dying

I feel like rap/hip hop has locked itself in for most of this century tbh. Unless something radically better comes along.

Society would have to completely collapse and start over in order for something else to come through.

I’m not really saying rap is dying, more so making an observation that it has a better looking future?

How many times u gonna change ur avy

Going through identity crisis.

I FW this one

Yeah tbh (mainstream wise I'd say)

made this thread like a year ago and got backlash for it lol

But yea rap gonna be around for a few hundred years.
There will be new religions based on the comings and going's of all our favorite rappers.

Kanye will be synonymous with Plato and Socrates

eh not really. rock hit a creative drought around the 2000s, sure there are exceptions, but most of it plays safe. personally i don’t think it’s hit that age yet, but i am seeing the cracks show

maybe in a few more years we'll see that happen

Follow up question:

Are we at raps most popular point?

And when was rocks most popular point?

not even close... we ain't even pop p**** all around the world yet.

Rock isnt dead

2016-2018 was raps most popular point

Idk about Rock. Maybe 1986-1994?

I think if we go by years sure
but by innovation nah.

every region within America has its own unique sound that will blow up eventually with the right ears behind them.

However our instruments are getting outdated see the akai mpc, Roland 808's idk if well start using 909's soon

but rap is gonna start incorporating other genres consistently until it's on every radio station as a single that we play all the time.

and that's when we'll be at the end of rap / rock in the 2000's.

rap’s popularity is only growing and growing, time will tell really.

as for rock, it’s really a tough answer, could be the 60s, 70s or 90s.

people here probably gonna think this corny or w/e but this is a perfect dramatized illustration of how lyricism started out basic, peaked, and then went back to some bullshit lmaoo and dude kinda stopped in the early 2010's with his "2019" flow it dont even get into the uzi and carti off the top simplest way to say s*** flow lol

of course lyrics being "important" is arguable and subjective i guess

i mean theres rappers in every continent. Even the polar bears got bars in antartica b

some rappers actually f***ed with limp bizkit tho lol

this kinda cap for the 2000s and 2010s lol

"mumble" rap/coi leray no more parties type songs is gonna splinter off into its own genre way too late after it has already left traditional rap a graveyard

is the answer to whats after rap lol