Not everyone has to sound like KRS one to be a rapper

the only difference between those carti pics and 20 years ago is you can meme asians in photos now.

i'm glad you said it, i've been seeing some users make it seem like that's the the standard hip-hop fan and that's not true at all.

Exactly. Those "hype" kids aren't the main demographic of rap.

But the ones that are, are VERY annoying I'll be honest. They invalidate your opinion if you listen to s*** older than like 3 years.

correct. Not what i meant by traditional rap.

those kids are part of the problem. it's not even a race thing, there's an influx of hype beasts poisoning the culture.

what bars did ea have? lmao

exactly my point lol

100% truth right here.

This is why s*** like that awful Semetary guy is being hyped up.

hate to break it to you but if you rap and have somewhat of a loyal fanbase 9 times outta 10 they look like this

Is there another version of EA thats not on my apple music?

that was the main criticism of ea, outside of the weak production.

Either way them lil niggas you posted dont count as a fanbase separate from rap lol.

An example of a rapper with a sizeable fanbase thats separate from hip hop would be tyler the creator. He has alot of fans that listen to mostly mac demarco, and other indie type s***.

Carti doesnt really have that

this s*** go in cycles we’ll be seeing another shift in a year or 2

I feel like this thread is arguing about something that isnt accurate at all which makes the whole debate pointless.

welcome to ktt

Why are y’all in denial about this? This is literally what a Carti/Uzi/Travis Stan looks like... lol

Yea uzi carti and them will be fine they got huge fan bases

Man I fw some of these new rappers way more tho like nle, polo, gunna, 42 dugg, and von and duck would’ve been killin it rn if they were here.

Rap been fire recently

I gave up on this rap s*** a looooong time ago. All these dudes that KTT hype up besides the biggest names are interchangeable and then you complain about variety in the game and they’ll point you too a guy like Semetary lol.

Lol if that nigga Bear1Boss blows up Key! Deserve a percentage or sumn first and only nigga I saw pushing that nigga

Sorry to break it to you but those are the faces of hip hop fandom today my nigga. S*** different now.

And another truth people need to know is a lot black young adults either don’t listen to rap or they don’t take it seriously enough to be considered fans so Hypebeast kids and followers are taking their place. So yeah,this what the modern day rap fan looks like,I always see white kids playing street rap loudly lol.

please stop quoting me about that post. Im not gonna continue this discussion anymore it's going to go nowhere and we arent going to agree

even if there has always been white fans, that was never the face of hip-hop fandom. idk what the future holds but as of today, it's still not.