Oct 29, 2025Kendrick Lamar is also to blame for this damn government shutdown.
Oct 29, 2025·1 replyDon't know how many of you on here are NBA fans but imagine if the NBA still had to rely on only KD, LeBron and Steph for excitement? Yes, they're each still active and are still putting up numbers but part of what keeps the NBA fresh is the influx of new talent every single year. They're the ones keeping the viewership numbers up. They're the ones keeping the social media engagement numbers up.
Betting your future on a bunch of people who have already had their time and contributed what they could to the game was always foolish. Drake can retire tomorrow and it'll be fine because he's already established as a legend. He has the #1 albums, the hits and the catalog to still put up numbers for years to come even if he never drops new music again. But someone should have taken over from him at least 5/6 years ago.
Oct 29, 2025yall too bias. And Vie is out of the top 40.
week 6:
PF2 - 44k
AITD - 33k
Oct 29, 2025·3 replieshonestly, what is the reward for dominating a cultural landscape that seems apathetic and disinterested in basically all new music? we've watched the "kpop demon hunters" lap every heavy hitter in the music industry and nobody really cares nor will they remember that soundtrack when it's off the charts.
fact is, rap was the first casualty, but mainstream music itself is not holding up well either.
Oct 29, 2025·2 repliesthegreatdivineWrong. Labels only care about making money and putting up numbers so their shareholders feel comfortable. They could give a f*** about a cultural shift.
Labels were supporting rap when niggas were out here getting killed over petty beefs. This is directly tied to what I've been saying these past few years — about how there have been zero new legitimate superstars to emerge from rap and how rap was still depending on a bunch of niggas pushing 40 to carry to genre and how unsustainable that was.
A whole new generation of superstars should have emerged from at least 2018 to carry the load, introduce new blood and excitement to the game and take the genre to greater heights. That didn't happen and labels slowly started taking their money elsewhere because if there's anything labels are obsessed with, it's new superstars and hip-hop simply wasn't providing that.
would you not attribute conservatism as to why a label would rather spend money building a country act than rappers
Oct 29, 2025GONEWe can agree the smash exceptions to this recent falling off of hiphop are: Lovin On Me, Paint the Town Red, Carnival, Not Like Us and TV Off?
I’m seeing the pattern again…
Some may not like the observation but…Only one of these aren’t a west coast influenced anthem
Maybe that’s where the new sound + stars should come from for the current zeitgeist
Last Night (16 consecutive weeks at #1) is the smash that christened Morgan Wallen into being the artist of the decade…a west coast hiphop influenced anthem
I think we can see what the people want but ofc we’ll see
Oct 29, 2025·1 replyserenadehonestly, what is the reward for dominating a cultural landscape that seems apathetic and disinterested in basically all new music? we've watched the "kpop demon hunters" lap every heavy hitter in the music industry and nobody really cares nor will they remember that soundtrack when it's off the charts.
fact is, rap was the first casualty, but mainstream music itself is not holding up well either.
“kpop demon hunters" lap every heavy hitter in the music industry and nobody really cares nor will they remember that soundtrack when it's off the charts“
I really don’t think this is true. People especially kids love that movie. It’s the biggest movie in Netflix history. It’s probably going to be a huge franchise.
- Gosh 😹Oct 29, 2025·1 replyserenade
honestly, what is the reward for dominating a cultural landscape that seems apathetic and disinterested in basically all new music? we've watched the "kpop demon hunters" lap every heavy hitter in the music industry and nobody really cares nor will they remember that soundtrack when it's off the charts.
fact is, rap was the first casualty, but mainstream music itself is not holding up well either.
My son can recognize a melody from that movie from a mile away and we havent even watched the s***
It def has an impact
- Kr0niic ☘️Oct 29, 2025·1 reply
Yall posted kendrick last week so ill post the new update this week
No Drake songs in the Hot 100 this week
- Gosh 😹Oct 29, 2025Kr0niic
Yall posted kendrick last week so ill post the new update this week
No Drake songs in the Hot 100 this week
And only one of those artists released music this year
Oct 29, 2025·2 repliesthegreatdivineDon't know how many of you on here are NBA fans but imagine if the NBA still had to rely on only KD, LeBron and Steph for excitement? Yes, they're each still active and are still putting up numbers but part of what keeps the NBA fresh is the influx of new talent every single year. They're the ones keeping the viewership numbers up. They're the ones keeping the social media engagement numbers up.
Betting your future on a bunch of people who have already had their time and contributed what they could to the game was always foolish. Drake can retire tomorrow and it'll be fine because he's already established as a legend. He has the #1 albums, the hits and the catalog to still put up numbers for years to come even if he never drops new music again. But someone should have taken over from him at least 5/6 years ago.
Don't know how many of you on here are NBA fans but imagine if the NBA still had to rely on only KD, LeBron and Steph for excitement?
Tell us you don’t watch ball without telling us you don’t watch ball.
This is exactly what people have been complaining about with the NBA for the past few seasons before this year
This is like the first season in years where the league has made a concerted effort to market the newer stars
- Oct 29, 2025Gosh
My son can recognize a melody from that movie from a mile away and we havent even watched the s***
It def has an impact
KTT too out of touch man. That film / soundtrack have been everywhere this year
Oct 29, 2025serenadehonestly, what is the reward for dominating a cultural landscape that seems apathetic and disinterested in basically all new music? we've watched the "kpop demon hunters" lap every heavy hitter in the music industry and nobody really cares nor will they remember that soundtrack when it's off the charts.
fact is, rap was the first casualty, but mainstream music itself is not holding up well either.
Oct 29, 2025·1 replythegreatdivineDrake has done more than enough for hip-hop. He carried the game for 15 years. Y'all crowned Kendrick as King last year and the next year, this s*** happens.
"carried the game for 15 years"
- Gosh 😹Oct 29, 2025·2 replies
Why is Kendrick being burdened with the responsibility to carry mainstream rap out of nowhere? Just because he won a rap battle?
- Oct 29, 2025·2 repliesTheFader
Don't know how many of you on here are NBA fans but imagine if the NBA still had to rely on only KD, LeBron and Steph for excitement?
Tell us you don’t watch ball without telling us you don’t watch ball.
This is exactly what people have been complaining about with the NBA for the past few seasons before this year
This is like the first season in years where the league has made a concerted effort to market the newer stars
Idk about this one tbh. I feel like the NBA has done a good job of marketing the guys who joined the league in the late 10s
- Oct 29, 2025Gosh
Why is Kendrick being burdened with the responsibility to carry mainstream rap out of nowhere? Just because he won a rap battle?
Because bitter Drake stans are desperately trying to spin Kendrick’s W into an L any way that they possibly can
- Gosh 😹Oct 29, 2025Free YoungBoy
Idk about this one tbh. I feel like the NBA has done a good job of marketing the guys who joined the league in the late 10s
The ratings didnt tell that story, they were trying and failing for a bit when it came to games being watched
- Oct 29, 2025Free YoungBoy
Idk about this one tbh. I feel like the NBA has done a good job of marketing the guys who joined the league in the late 10s
It’s 2025 dog, the late 10s was 7-8 years ago
People were absolutely complaining for the past two seasons that the NBA had a LeBron/Steph/KD problem
This the first year this decade where those guys don’t seem to be at the forefront of the marketing
- Oct 29, 2025·2 repliesGhetto Lenny
“kpop demon hunters" lap every heavy hitter in the music industry and nobody really cares nor will they remember that soundtrack when it's off the charts“
I really don’t think this is true. People especially kids love that movie. It’s the biggest movie in Netflix history. It’s probably going to be a huge franchise.
i'm talking about people above the age of 12. if the only music that has had any genuine cultural impact or staying power is a soundtrack primarily being consumed by children, then that bodes incredibly badly for the music industry as a whole.
- Oct 29, 2025serenade
i'm talking about people above the age of 12. if the only music that has had any genuine cultural impact or staying power is a soundtrack primarily being consumed by children, then that bodes incredibly badly for the music industry as a whole.
My job is full of people 30 and up, I kid you not every single one of them has said they’ve rewatched the movie at least 2-3 times
It’s absolutely not just 12 year olds
- Oct 29, 2025·1 reply
A soundtrack from a whole other medium dominating an entire chart during an ongoing drought is not a good sign for music lol
- Gosh 😹Oct 29, 2025serenade
i'm talking about people above the age of 12. if the only music that has had any genuine cultural impact or staying power is a soundtrack primarily being consumed by children, then that bodes incredibly badly for the music industry as a whole.
I think it has transcended just kids at this point but that definitely plays a part in its popularity
- Kr0niic ☘️Oct 29, 2025
TBH id rather listen to a new 2025 drake album than 90% of new gen artists new albums
speaks how bad the new generation of rappers are
- Oct 29, 2025
These new niggas just SUCK and they also aren’t making west coast anthems which is what the general public wants from hiphop beats in the 2020s but nobody is paying attention