This past year I became a dusthead. The most recent full album I listened to was the new Tame Impala or Bandana, whichever came first I dont remember.

Beerbongs, Astro, ?, and Scorpion alone would probably outstream all of 2021 so far tbh. Lil Wayne also coming through with the second biggest streaming week of all time in rap was crazy.

I listened to GKMC front to back the other day. I think the last album I listened to front to back was Alfredo.

Not too many front to back worthy albums these days. Some dope singles and cuts here and there though.

It's probably always this way. Most people stop looking for new music once they reach 25-35 or don't have time / enough interest to check out new artists when they have kids.
From there most listen to the stuff they liked already and/or puts them in some nostalgic mood.

Yes they were. People say it about every era

Can you provide any example at all of this

And how old were you in 2012

I was 16. All the trap artists including future then kendrick was called an andre and em clone. Drake copying big sean. J cole trying to be kanye. Ross trying to be biggie. The list goes on.

I am once again asking you for any proof that people were saying artists all sounded the same in 2012

Every artist you listed consistently dropped good enough projects to build huge fan bases. That doesn’t happen anymore.

fax lol. 2018 skewed so much. the top 5 first weeks sales and first week rap sales that year s*** on 2019-2021 by far 😭

You are asking me for some blog from 10 years ago where I have to google it to find it? Yeah, I'm not going to waste my time doing that lmao.

"Every artist you listed consistently dropped good enough projects to build huge fan bases."

Literally the same thing now but yall so bias yall deny empirical facts

Okay name some new artist who are consistently dropping great projects.

Like exclusively streaming artists.

Yeah bro I was trippin I got corrected tho that’s my bad

Not surprised at all

This is just a natural effect of time and the streaming era and not some reflection of how the market is failing

Having everything at your hands means there’s a LOT more music that’s older than 18 months than younger

seeking new music is almost like a chore sometimes because there is soooo much of it. easy to just go back to the old songs out of comfort.

that will eventually kill the industry, i stay trying to find new artists for that reason...

however this is leading to a whole different problem i've noticed in music recently which is when new artists sample/bite old songs entirely from hook, cadence, melody. these always end up charting out of familiarity, but f*** they are always so lazy

Dust heads rare W