The underground is reinventing itself from the 2016 lil pump soundcloud era and i'm here for it.
It's heading more towards experimenting with a lot more niche references, like mid-2000s anime/goth/internet culture.

The sound is like fast-paced unconventional beats, with a dark/fun influence from artists like SpaceGhostPurrp and Goth Money and the "phonk" genre of music

The sound also has roots in Florida, from the "fast music"/"stick drill" genre

Since SGP went back to the underground and started evolving his sound to be more grimy and distorted and way less accessible and mainstream, he incorporated a lot of that florida culture into his music and a lot of these guys took influence from that

It's a fresh take on older concepts and isn't just directly copying other successful artists down to the sound

The wave is led by artists like RCB, Drain Gang (if they are still considered an underground collective) and plenty others I honestly forget at the moment

There is also a smaller wave on the rise called "hexD" mixes where they will take these songs and speed them up and bitcrush them to achieve a intentional lo-fi effect

It's a great change from the previous era and I want to see if it has potential to reach more appeal in the 2020s (maybe toned down)

Yessssss

SGP is the future

Nerds takin ova that movement. Lean X**** and Percocets will be replaced by Mushrooms and LSD like Metro Zu originally intended

examples:

i think further and further we go the more clear that veteran will become very influential, but i also see drain gang becoming very popular in their as whole e boy aesthetic comes from them

mushroom lsd and gas

ecco2k is gonna be fashion god for 2020s

gas never not been a staple

way better no one is OD'ing now

i know ktt tends to hate new underground artists but don't you think that's what the oldheads on BX/Coli/Hypebeast did to the blog era

Subject matter isn't depressing stupid s*** anymore neither

hopefully this the new soundcloud underground wave for the 2020s, more experimentation and new sounds :)

That faster sgp song is pretty good

REPTILLIAN CLUB BOYZ!!!

in, always up for some interesting music

This just lame

hush

:)

i ain't saying this will go lil pump mainstream status or anything but hopefully this starts a blog era 2.0 where more artists are incentivized to change up their sound and experiment and birth new sounds and create legends

you need that for hip-hop to truly sustain itself

op real as f***

the soundcloud scene is thriving rn in terms of creativity

those drain gang~ish niggas are super lame though. they just circle jerk eachother on twitter and make bad music