Finally

when you take the blackness out of literally any genre, it loses the spark that makes it popular.

because black is radical lil bro lol.

51% of adults in the UK can’t read

We're saying the same s*** lol. I'm not saying it's a good thing, it's just the way it is.

Didn’t answer my question. If anything you’re contradicting your stance by saying that rap fell off because it isn’t in corporate hands anymore

Hey this isn’t true. It’s under 18%

Using identity politics to gauge radicalism

hip hop is still the #1 genre btw it’s so sucessful that this board freaks out every week over the fact it doesn’t crush literally every other genre commercially anymore and acts like it has no new artists because the turnover rate went from 8x any other genre to 3x that s*** is not becoming unpopular lol

Okay.

I'm not gonna say rap music is in the best place if you're a sales = quality propagandist. But changes to the chart algorithm is pretty important background information before declaring mainstream rap is dead forever.

But 40% of them said they hadn’t read a book last year

Someone text to speech this post for me?

What? It’ll just disappear off the list?

Yes

Also like what yall realize this level of chart sucess has to do with crossover appeal right if ur at #1 it’s because gated communities bump ur s*** that don’t even know ur genre are h arguing that radicalism = more radio play and crossover appeal now?

listen man it's all good i'm out this conversation man everything's great.

literacy levels are at its highest it's ever been. attention spans are great. There's no anti-intelligence movement happening in this country. And music as a whole isn't being co-opted into a tool for fascist-capitalist tech-death squad sponsored by AI and cacs that wanna say nigga.

I also don't literally have an occupation teaching third graders and I'm actually bald too lmao.

yall got it. hip hop is great.

We’re treating music like Michelin stars but it’s also surreal to me that a tire company moderates the rankings of restaurants

Trust me the charts are insane once you remove rules

Once again, these charts are corporately (and therefore, white!) controlled.

nice source, can you put it in MLA format please though?

I use to think they just had similar names but nope it’s literally the tire company

That’s insane. I hadn’t looked into this. Thought it was just charts not this extra bit

Gish gallop of s*** that nobody said was the part they disagreed with lol so what if ur a teacher for little kids this is art discourse bro

What a strange thing to do. And we let it happen!!