Racist piece of s***. I remember when this a****** had a following.

Anti-Black rhetoric on artforms dominated by African Americans

Yeah this just highlights what I said. Imagine if streaming existed when rap records were actually being sold. Number 1 records is a huge difference between eras. You'd think the greatest hits in rap history came out in the last 10 years

This the same cope as "if you can't find good rap to listen to thats on you". Mainstream is always the key, the underground has always been great--in literally every genre.

I respect how Drake stans create new narratives out of nothing. The way they can relate anything to the beef is hilarious

Why are we hinging the success on hiphop on how much attention white corporations pay it

huge news for the unemployed

That's because every rapper nowadays wants to run it down and are lazy

Heavy is the head that wears the crown. Drake said he’s done carrying the genre. That’s what yall wanted.

Who will step up now

Yea but we aren’t talking about that era

First part that’s true of course no doubt I don’t mean it in that way, I mean those are the artists that dominated in its commercial peak. 2016-2022 damn outsold luv is rage 2 sure but Uzi dropped what 5 incredibly successful projects and that was the prime of the sc wave and migos were killing it… Kendrick wasn’t around for more than one year. That commercial peak of hip hop was the era of people like Uzi, Drake, and Travis Scott more than any of those guys

Just heard dat poetic justice we f***ed up so hard brah

in all seriousness though this would be fine were it not for the current state of actual monetization in music. you have an industry where it's incontrovertibly harder than ever to get on, get attention and develop a fanbase no matter how unique you are and in fact the more unique you are harder it is. you gotta be a walking gimmick, you gotta post on TikTok, you gotta pander to nostalgia and be hella derivative, whereas most of your favorite "middle class" or underground rappers came out before the pandemic when, even though a lot of of this was the same, a lot was different. tiktok didn't exist, the monoculture while on its last legs was still alive, and the consolidation of everything by spotify and labels etc was only at its beginning. it's what allowed for s*** like the golden age of soundcloud from 2011-2018~. It was a small window and if you didn't get in then... well let's just say you're almost completely SOL through no fault of your own.

and even then people aren't making money in this music s***. only way i see it is if you had a fanbase big enough to sustain yourself pre-tiktok and you're completely independent or you get a huge cosign from someone who got in pre all this BS, and then maybe you're making enough to eat off an album release assuming your fanbase buys your albums because the streaming percentages are below garbage. the funny thing is it doesn't even have to be this way. a lot more artists could make a lot more off streaming alone if the system was not actually designed in favor of capitalists and giving fractions of pennies with the lion's share going to AI weapons to murder people of color across the world. but this the world we live in and until there's serious change in an overall way don't expect s*** to get any better for hip hop or music or art overall for that matter.

so yeah im not really worried for hip-hop as an artform, people are always gonna make hip hop. but it's people actually being able to eat off of it being what im actually concerned about. if hip hop ain't financially mainstream and it's borderline impossible for artists to make anything off it even if it isn't, we get even less quality music than we get now and so many artists that maybe in a better climate would've been heard and appreciated go unheard and unsung now. s*** is beyond over in that sense and only way things are gonna meaningfully change is overall socioeconomic change

Right lol

reply count getting a bit too high enough of this malarky

Idk how u jus be dropping BARS like dis

Kendrick's era btw

For sure probably the best year and a half for rap this decade so far.

I keep asking why we’re doing this and I’m not getting answer bro

SoundCloud pro…

These new niggas just carti, uzi clones