Kr0niic

6mo

She listed NF

Laced

6mo

This coming from Ak is crazy af. He's one of the biggest proponents of this s*** to this day

Laced

6mo

This coming from Ak is crazy af. He's one of the biggest proponents of this s*** to this day

Kr0niic

6mo

Botify

thegreatdivine

6mo

As much as I hate to agree with anything Akademiks says, he isn't wrong here. A handful of producers and even rappers have already come out to hint at feeling this way. This is the same s*** that plagued female rap for years (and still does till this day) where you're either team Nicki or team Cardi B and you'll get attacked by fans and get cut off by even the artists themselves if you work with one or the other and either one feels slighted.

It's not a lie that since the beef, rap has been weird. The game has now turned into this weird space where everything falls into one or the other. You're either team Drake or team Kendrick. If you're team Drake (or you just so happen to be cool with Drake), you'll get attacked for being against the culture, for having no integrity in rap and for making the kind of rap that's a cancer to the game.

If you're team Kendrick, then you're great for the culture and you're exactly what the game needs. It's exactly the sort of division that rap doesn't need right now when things seem to be in a transitional phase in the industry.

It's not that rappers aren't making good songs or songs that are just as good as they've always made it and it's not that audiences are now magically only checking for rap that's more lyrical or "says something" because the rappers making music that fits that mold aren't only not getting the attention for their music that they deserve, the music is flopping hard.

On the media side, not only are they not talking about these so-called amazing rap albums we've gotten this year, they're obsessively covering any and everything that concerns Drake, even more than usual, as if Drake needs the extra press. That's also something that's hurting the game.

What's interesting about the whole thing is that right now in rap, the only two people that I can say for sure will be fine are Drake and Kendrick. Everyone else's future is up in the air and if you think the fix to this s*** is something as simple as "making better music," let's all wait and see how 2026 turns out for some of you to realize that the answer isn't that simple (even with the adjustment that's been made to how streams are weighed).

thegreatdivine

6mo

As much as I hate to agree with anything Akademiks says, he isn't wrong here. A handful of producers and even rappers have already come out to hint at feeling this way. This is the same s*** that plagued female rap for years (and still does till this day) where you're either team Nicki or team Cardi B and you'll get attacked by fans and get cut off by even the artists themselves if you work with one or the other and either one feels slighted.

It's not a lie that since the beef, rap has been weird. The game has now turned into this weird space where everything falls into one or the other. You're either team Drake or team Kendrick. If you're team Drake (or you just so happen to be cool with Drake), you'll get attacked for being against the culture, for having no integrity in rap and for making the kind of rap that's a cancer to the game.

If you're team Kendrick, then you're great for the culture and you're exactly what the game needs. It's exactly the sort of division that rap doesn't need right now when things seem to be in a transitional phase in the industry.

It's not that rappers aren't making good songs or songs that are just as good as they've always made it and it's not that audiences are now magically only checking for rap that's more lyrical or "says something" because the rappers making music that fits that mold aren't only not getting the attention for their music that they deserve, the music is flopping hard.

On the media side, not only are they not talking about these so-called amazing rap albums we've gotten this year, they're obsessively covering any and everything that concerns Drake, even more than usual, as if Drake needs the extra press. That's also something that's hurting the game.

What's interesting about the whole thing is that right now in rap, the only two people that I can say for sure will be fine are Drake and Kendrick. Everyone else's future is up in the air and if you think the fix to this s*** is something as simple as "making better music," let's all wait and see how 2026 turns out for some of you to realize that the answer isn't that simple (even with the adjustment that's been made to how streams are weighed).

Laced

6mo

This coming from Ak is crazy af. He's one of the biggest proponents of this s*** to this day

Laced

6mo

This coming from Ak is crazy af. He's one of the biggest proponents of this s*** to this day

DiamondsFlooded

6mo

i agree with nobody caring about anybody else
that’s a fact

TheFader

6mo

The Timulus

Gosh

6mo

The way that remix generated more hype than drakes entire rollout is crazy