IMPORTANT:

The 3 he’s identified so far 🧐🧐:

STREET SMART STREET WISE

Doja listed first, it just means more.

Is Doja Cat the best mainstream artist to blow up in the last five calendar years?

What’s a non calendar year if you don’t mind me asking

Definitely Juice

Lil Baby

it’s really nuts how these were undoubtedly going to be top 3

guy tried to slip keem in there

Yeah

He missed the whole gen after Kenny Cole and Drake? lol

Interesting that the first two he listed, Doja and Nas X, are artists who a lot of people would consider Pop artists

tbh the death of this three is the reason why this era of hip hop (after the Kendrick, Cole and Drake era) feels like it lacks superstars.

They were about to get really big

Pop smoke was for sure going to drop off the scene

None

Only current rapper with a verse on Cole, Drake and Nicki’s most recent albums

• Megan
• Doja cat
• lil nas x (more pop but I’ll include him)
• jack harlow
• polo g
• baby keem
• don toliver
• lil baby
• lil durk
• yeat
• sofaygo
• nardo wick

the only superstar I see here is doja and maybe megan and lil nas (if he counts) but the rest of these have big star potential

Juice and pop would’ve been superstars too

Roddy and dababy could’ve been superstars but they fell off too quickly

I think just like with NBA franchises, the idea of a superstar/big market is dead

Everything is so accessible, a centralized lightning Rod for stans just don’t come the same way

The best from the late 00s-early 10s still dramatically dominate the album charts don’t they? They certainly seem to do that with the social media conversation

Nas X, DaBaby, Jack Harlow are doing a good job tho

Most recent superstar is lil baby right before that was Trav

I feel like playboi carti has star power and star potential but he wouldn’t do anything to get past that peak (brand deals etc, the Travis way)

I have a working theory that rap is so large now with so many sub genres, that we won’t see a clear cut number one ever again like Drake.

As far as superstars go, the talent is there. It’s just a matter of who can put everything together.

Hip hop is pop

everybody wanna be a super star
get a lot of money drive fancy cars

NBA Youngboy

Nickelback