New SoundCloud is cool tho. Alotta eccentric weird s*** right now

Soundcloud era had good music Tiktok era has bad music

Well the Soundcloud era had XXXtentacion who is imo one of the most talented young artists to hit the mainstream in a long time. So that era wins by default for me.

I dont really care for either

Mainstream music as a whole is probably gonna Peter out in the next 20 years as cultural institutions collapse from market forces and instability as a whole caused by climate change and politics in the west

Give me my good music

besides Jack none of those artists you listed will be relevant in 2 years and most of them have fallen off already.

Am I wrong? Lol

I think the current gen rn suffers from a high floor-low ceiling. The music quality overall is much better, especially production, but none of the new artists have that wow factor that guys like Yachty, Uzi, or X had for example that really drew you into the music. A part of that too is that their style has been studied and emulated a million times rn. There is no internet gimmick you could use to promote your music that hasn't been seen already. Now that I think about it, fatigue is probably a big issue. Maybe the underground needs a sharp turn. No more 808s and autotune idk something radical

Both mid

fatigue is a big factor nowadays

so much music being dumped onto streaming services its harder than ever to stand out

PureVolume >>>>>>>>>>>

i think they're still working on their sound. i don't even think they're aware of that. some of it still sounds way too euro to hit the hip hop mainstream. but they've shown too much promise at this point for me to believe they'll fail.

Soundcloud is still popping

Carti is the innovator...whatever he does next will set the tone

Comparing Tik tok to a whole ass streaming service. It should be compared to vine.

The SoundCloud wave still had a lot of rap influence and were rappers. The best of them still had a little emcee left in them.

The tik tok era is more alternate music none of them have commanding presence on the mic that grabs you. It’s like they hide behind the beats. None of the guys I have heard have vocal presence that make me feel like I need to hear what they say or what they about.

i cannot see the connection when people say that are just copying carti/wlr other than the opium members

think most of the forum is just to old for the new stuff

Cause the hype isn't real. It's industry manufactured.

Claiming my pension rn

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Abdul, Get the rocks !!!

What

Most of these artists are indie

UPDATE:

Popular underground rapper, Summrs has shown the streams that the underground is putting up. Yeat is carrying these niggas