Hiphop has always been a reflection of the lives people are living and transferring this into art

Hiphop before streaming was a result of the world at the time. Post streaming the world has changed quite a bit and music reflects that

This is just a natural progression of the sound due to the world we live in

Hiphop didn’t die the world just changed

Thoughts?

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Hip hop will be female dominant for the foreseeable future

That’s the current paradigm shift

No. 1 societal factor shaping American hip hop right now is the opioid epidemic, unfortunately

melz go to bed nigga

Things can change for the worse

It’s 8am cuzzo

"The United States makes up 4.4% of the world’s population, and consumes over 80% of the world’s opioids."
health.state.mn.us/communities/opioids/prevention/painperception.html

"Men died of overdose at 2-3 times greater a rate than women in the U.S. in 2020-2021"
nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/men-died-overdose-2-3-times-greater-rate-women-us-2020-2021

This is why you don't see female or British rappers making Carti/Nettspend/Yeat/etc. pill popping type music. They are the only ones sober enough to remember how to rap

This isn’t a valid excuse for the very noticeable drop in quality from a lot of these new generation hip hop artists. They are just lazy and uninspired

they are a reflection of terminally online irony poisoned discord users who see hip-hop as a meme genre for d*** addicts, not society as a whole. that's why most of them can barely scrape 50k first week, they're not in touch with what most people want to hear.

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Some would say, and I agree, that the Kendrick/Drake thing sorta shifted hip hop for the worst and the only artist pushing the boundaries are female rappers right now.

Women have been rapidly gaining financial independence over the past few decades and I think that’s gonna reflect in the music,ESPECIALLY in the black population where most hip hop artist come from.

On top of all of our best potential being murdered, overdosed or incarcerated I think male dominated hip hop has run its course.

“Society has gotten worse, why wouldn’t hiphop?”

Grindset business mode has done worse damage to hip-hop music than any d***

I think the real question is, hip hop has changed, why wouldn’t society?

hip hop started, well i guess it started as a sort of disco offshoot but in the 80s and 90s it blossomed as an artistic expression of inner city african american culture. that was the specific societal environment it was expressing.

you had the gangster rappers speaking on gang life, violence, robbery etc. you had the d*** dealer rap. and you had the counter to this which was conscious rap, zulu nation and other similar ideas, which still addressed black culture but in a more a***ytical way promoting positive change. and in all of these sides, it was heavily lyrical. they were saying a lot in terms of like, words per song. they had a lot to say.

i'm not sure society changing is why hip hop changed. have the inner cities gotten better? idk

i think it grew beyond this original scope and evolved due to its popularity, becoming more global. also, every young generation shifts course against the previous generation. it's a young person's genre and the lyric heavy rap may have gone away due to the natural cycle of rebellion. kids are never going to like exactly what their parents like (i'm speaking on the whole here. obviously some kids like exactly what their parents like)

If hip hop is a reflection of society then modern society is cooked

we live in a hiphop..

Duh

it losing 40 percent+ in marketshare and rappers getting fropped from labels like flies suggest its dead/dying, mainstream wise

you cznt say its a generation thing when even most of the newer gen also dont really care for it either

Changed for the worst how

S*** sucks fr. Glad i hate opiates they make me sick