A megastar, globally renowned, insanely popular at least at some point. Which megastars would you say stand on their own in the negative way that they have no direct descendants of influence?

Eminem (many cringe white rappers but who really has the stylings of eminem and is more popular than internet fellas)

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Em is a main influence for Nicki, Big Sean, Tyler, Juice WRLD, Kendrick and one of the biggest singers in Africa and Europe.

Those people had more impact than those cringy white rappers we all know about. Thread is off to a shaky start

Polo g

Em is a huge influence to tons and tons of rappers, just these days it's a lot of rappers ppl online have no interest in

He was obviously the biggest influence on Tyler too

j cole

katy perry

Harry Styles

it’s another thread where people think influence = how many people copy them

Cole not a megastar

But then I thought back, back to a better me
Before I was a B-list celebrity

to say eminem isnt influential is just patently wrong

Honestly tons of pop megastars are barely influential

and i only mentioned artists where you can clearly hear em's style in them to avoid dumb comments

frank ocean is influenced by eminem, future is influenced by 3k, mercy by ye is influenced by dilla, etc, it's deeper than the sound itself

It's such a wild Gen alpha ass take lmao

Eminem's a bad choice. He's influenced tons of artists and he's the reason people online use "Stan" to this very day.

He's also had a huge influence overseas.

Honestly, Ed Sheeran is a much better example. I can't think of one artist who was actually influenced by him or tried to emulate him.

Is that not influence

Adele

It's not all of what influence is but it's a part imo

then why yall constantly putting him in the top 3 then? something ain’t clicking

tons of people put MF doom in their top three, is he a mega star?

i see what yall r saying but for a megastar, em is markedly less influential than say, wayne

Eminem was way more influential especially overseas lmao

Care to elaborate?

Idk if I’d call The Weeknd massively influential tbh maybe I’m wrong