Oct 30, 2025·1 reply
Ghetto LennyI read this and thought you made that name up but no he actually exists. I’m getting old.
Lol Yea man he’s real. I wish the music wasn’t, but it is, unfortunately. And don’t forget FAKEMINK bro he literally did a show with 2025 Drake. He’s next bro
- Oct 30, 2025dvncingmvchine
Yea to be fair, Mickinlry Dixon didn’t. I will actually check his stuff out. It sounded solid to me
The album McKinley Dixon dropped this year is great. Definitely check it out.
Oct 30, 2025
cryforhellAs for us niggas we’ll be listening to Geese, NBT and Mk.Gee til this s*** get back to what it was ✌🏾😆
ill be spinning that billie charli and roan excuse me
Oct 30, 2025·3 repliesdvncingmvchineWhere are you getting this information from? I read your post and searched for data – surveys, polls, peer reviewed articles – to confirm that hiphop is the “#1 genre in the world that the 3rd biggest would have to multiply 8x to get as big as btw” and couldn’t find anything, aside from an article from “unchainedmusic.io” (???) which cites no sources and “driveresearch.com”, which DOES cite sources but not many (if not NONE) of which back up this claim. Am I missing something?
And in the EXTREMELY UNLIKELY event that you are correct and are able to cite a credible source for this claim, how many of these streams and sales are coming from legacy artists, like Kendrick, Kanye, and Drake? BEcause I highly doubt that the bulk of those streams and sales are coming from checks notes Fakemink lol
Rap is declining BUT there is no correlation to other genres rising to take its place
ALL MUSIC is struggling or barely improving and we keep hyper fixating on rap because it’s the biggest when really it has just peaked way higher than any genre ever had and is regressing back to the mean
OPOct 30, 2025·2 repliesValentineRap is declining BUT there is no correlation to other genres rising to take its place
ALL MUSIC is struggling or barely improving and we keep hyper fixating on rap because it’s the biggest when really it has just peaked way higher than any genre ever had and is regressing back to the mean
How is music struggling when listenership is up as a whole
- Oct 30, 2025eye contact
How is music struggling when listenership is up as a whole
because the population has increased by a billion people twice in the last 20 years and continues to increase at the same rate? more listeners doesn’t mean music isn’t struggling, it’s just means there’s more superfans and listening options but it’s not reflecting in consumer behaviors
- Oct 30, 2025·1 replyValentine
Rap is declining BUT there is no correlation to other genres rising to take its place
ALL MUSIC is struggling or barely improving and we keep hyper fixating on rap because it’s the biggest when really it has just peaked way higher than any genre ever had and is regressing back to the mean
lol that’s the US market – not the WORLD like you argued, moron. And it also isn’t “8x” as bigger than the third genre, DUMBASS. And YEA IT IS IN DECLINE, which further proves my overall point - your “cool”, “artistic” niche sounding subgenre of hiphop is hurting the genre as a whole. And you still haven’t addressed who is doing the heavy lifting for the genre when it comes to these stats BECAUSE THAT MATTERS IN THIS DEBATE: Kanye, Drake, Kendrick, Jay, or Jack Skelington and Fakemink? I think we all know who is carrying this genre and my guy, it isn’t your favorite Spotify rapper
- Oct 30, 2025
cocaWhy even engage with someone saying mckinley dixon and lucy bedroque "literally sound the same"
why even engage with someone tryna discuss who and who in the rap is declining thread (this was a joke)
- Oct 30, 2025eye contact
How is music struggling when listenership is up as a whole
It’s copium. He’s making things up.
- Oct 30, 2025dvncingmvchine
lol that’s the US market – not the WORLD like you argued, moron. And it also isn’t “8x” as bigger than the third genre, DUMBASS. And YEA IT IS IN DECLINE, which further proves my overall point - your “cool”, “artistic” niche sounding subgenre of hiphop is hurting the genre as a whole. And you still haven’t addressed who is doing the heavy lifting for the genre when it comes to these stats BECAUSE THAT MATTERS IN THIS DEBATE: Kanye, Drake, Kendrick, Jay, or Jack Skelington and Fakemink? I think we all know who is carrying this genre and my guy, it isn’t your favorite Spotify rapper
I never made that argument, you’re ranting against someone who just posted a picture and their own information
- Oct 30, 2025
nigga needs to take a break and go to bed lmfaooo
Oct 30, 2025It's Joever and it should never have ended up being this way.
- Oct 30, 2025
HBDUSAHe just said it wrong
Back then when Drake dropped best I ever had people said on this guys going to be the next big thing. When Kendrick was coming up people said he’d be the next best rapper alive. Cole with his athlete mixtape series. I was wrong but I thought Lupe would end up becoming a GOAT. Thought Jay Electronica would contend to be the best rapper alive.
We don’t need someone to come out the gates and be a Kanye but when’s the last time someone even came out that you could look at and say yeah he’s gonna run this one day
it’s because these niggas creative pallets are Carti, that swole zoomer screaming nigga Jaleel, Rex Orange County bedroom pop diddler, and whatever else they can mash together to be original and different then call it rap
- Oct 30, 2025dvncingmvchine
Yea to be fair, Mickinlry Dixon didn’t. I will actually check his stuff out. It sounded solid to me
you completely dismissed the artist you liked to prioritize mocking the ones you didn't and that sums up my issue with the mindset behind those kinds of comments
Oct 30, 2025Online leftists stop being annoying and condescending challenge
Oct 30, 2025·3 repliesValentineRap is declining BUT there is no correlation to other genres rising to take its place
ALL MUSIC is struggling or barely improving and we keep hyper fixating on rap because it’s the biggest when really it has just peaked way higher than any genre ever had and is regressing back to the mean
This is worse than it looks when you consider R&B is having a record year, and they combine both genres on there.
Oct 30, 2025Valentinethat performance was terrible as f*** tbh lmao, niggas were probably wondering why Drake had a make a wish nigga on stage for his set break
yea he’s not a great performer yet agreed
Oct 30, 2025·1 replyMidzyThis is worse than it looks when you consider R&B is having a record year, and they combine both genres on there.
Record year? In what way?
- Oct 30, 2025coca
Why even engage with someone saying mckinley dixon and lucy bedroque "literally sound the same"
there’s no way he said that LMAO
- Oct 30, 2025dvncingmvchine
I came to KTT after seeing a tweet on the Billboard news to see if you guys are still in denial about the artistic decay and general popular decline of hiphop and yea nothing has changed lol all of these artists literally all sound the same and have such thick, unpleasant, niche sounds that there is absolutely NO WAY this genre will recover and thrive above the underground ever again. Idk if i’ll check for any responses to this since I visit this place once or twice a year at this point, but for those who will reply - or read this and roll their eyes – congrats. You won. I lost. Your music won. Your music survived. You condemned the genre to obscurity, but hey, at least you’ll have Spotify artists like untilJapan to check out at your local 2,000 seat theater every once in awhile!
untiljapan doesn’t sound like McKinley Dixon who doesn’t sound like Lucy bedroque who sounds nothing like fakemink lol just be pulling s*** out yo ass
- Oct 30, 2025NGNL
Record year? In what way?
I mean compared to the last few years the genre is doing great. Big albums, songs.
- Oct 30, 2025
Current releases for all genres were streamed 3.3% less in 2025 than 2024 meaning overall, new music is down slightly even though total streaming increased.
Hip-Hop/R&B specifically were down 9.2% less.
- OPOct 30, 2025dvncingmvchine
Lol Yea man he’s real. I wish the music wasn’t, but it is, unfortunately. And don’t forget FAKEMINK bro he literally did a show with 2025 Drake. He’s next bro
Fakemink is a stupid name to you?
Oct 30, 2025MidzyThis is worse than it looks when you consider R&B is having a record year, and they combine both genres on there.
THEY NEED TO STOP DOING THAT S***
- Oct 30, 2025·1 replyMidzy
This is worse than it looks when you consider R&B is having a record year, and they combine both genres on there.
if you take out R&B, the number only changes by like .5% which is why they just include it lmfao
another overstated statistic is R&B’s “record” year. shoutout more people listening tho, but it still severely behind other genres