travis not as nice as asap or mac. not as musically inclined as mac either

a more fitting comparison for his lane would be uzi/thug/future and even then he's not nearly as good at rapping as any of them. he can't even hang with post malone if we're being real

travis vision is cool but there's levels to this. you gotta know how to rap to be put in those conversations lol

THIS white kid still loves DMX & Tupac

Rap is the most listened genre in the US, 60% of the songs in this weeks Top 10 is rap, half of the most listened albums in 2019 were rap (70% in 2018), we got an unprecedented amount of rap arena tours in the past 5 years, Hip Hop culture is being exploited more than ever by companies, I think it's fair to say this gen has more commercial impact.

I f*** with baby but my turn ain’t no damn classic

You can thank the streaming era and hip hop recently becoming the dominant genre for that. But even with all those numbers the new artists are getting, how will they be remembered in hip hop history besides just being popular for this era.

They are making charts now but will they be iconic legends the way guys like Pac, Eminem, 50, Kanye, Wayne, Drake, Kendrick have become? Highly doubt it.

Charts and sales dont mean anything post 2016

Amount of plaques isn’t really the measure for success

na its just easier to see/hear all this current rap cause of the new technology. Rap was bigger during the 00s, we just didn't have streaming/rules skewed to make rap the dominant genre

Don’t see them selling out arenas worldwide like Drake and to a smaller extent even Cole or Kendrick

Worst thread of the day

Well yeah it's easier to hear, and that's a big part why it's bigger lol. I'm talking pure numbers here and by any metric we look at, rap is just bigger. Idg how streaming makes the "makes rap the dominant" when theres no exception for Rap (hell I'd say the low weight of Free streams hurts rap) and young people who listen to any genre at this point have mostly moved on to streaming, so if you take out the streaming weight then you'd actually be misrepresenting what people listen to. If there are any rules skewed to prefer rap can you name them cuz idk any.

I think we’re just finally realizing how we overrated those artists

Charts and sales dont matter