Ever since 2016 Trap has dominated not just in rap but in music in general with pop stars like Ariana Grande getting a #1 hit off a trap sounding song.

But now people are starting to move away from trap music and even labels are backing away from it.

While yes, the quality of music in rap tanked in this new trap era, one thing that people don’t mention often is how street politics led to its downfall.

The streets have been involved in rap since the mid-late 80s but the difference was the rapper was usually the dude who wasn’t in the streets and just knew how to rap and had his homies in the streets fund his career.

Fast forward to now, you got rappers flexing the gang they rep, the guns they got and how many oops they’re beefing with. Not to mention the amount of talent we lost through murder and jail time because of this.

As a result of this, HipHop is suffering commercially by proxy cuz people are tired of seeing a new artist come and go whether through street s*** or not delivering musically.

TLDR: Trap is killing rap because of street s***

Labels learned their lessons for investing in such a volatile genre

How much money do you think republic gave pop smoke

These board room people would never f*** up an investment like that again

Topic: “Ariana Grande”

Sex, Money, D**** by Lucki out now tho

Drill is bigger than ever

drill will never be bigger than it was in 2020

RIP Pop

Maybe

I lean closer to it just cycling out

The music got repetitive and derivative and its no longer the cultural zeitgeist

Im sure in 5 or 10 years it will have another dominating run

my purely anecdotal dumb guy take is the labels saw engagement numbers (like the real numbers) from when Tekashi was on his run, the numbers were insane because what Tekashi did had everyone so locked in (+ NBA youngboy who also does numbers) and they thought that meant street rappers would have these kids hooked for a long long time so they pushed their whole rap division into this direction

but in reality Tekashi was a 1 of 1 moment and its not actually a good long term investment due to both the unpredictability of the artists actual real lives and the danger they are in and an overestimation of how much/long kids would actually follow street rappers since so many of them are mediocre artists

Cap, it’s dying rn and a lot of these drill artists are not poppin like that fr

Damn I’m in a bubble

Maybe they did but gangsta rap was able to be commercialized in the 2000s even after the whole East Coast-West Coast beef years earlier.

Somewhere down the line rappers cared about image more than the music.

THat's why Gunna is the GOAT

These kids follow 50's whole image but not his business acumen + the fact bro stayed relatively out the way throughout all his beefs.

These new niggas just don't know how to move.

the pop story saddens me because how it could've been prevented if bro just gave it up.

Older rappers get robbed for they jewelry and get clowned for it for a week at most.

Why can't these young niggas see the long run bro?

I was just finna post this before I saw this lol ironically

lol nothing changed if anything I think it’s the fan that’s the problem. Go to any comment section and you see people with cartoonish engagement bait logic about violence and street s*** lol

well ya that and the s*** is trash

the fans have always been cartoonish about violent street s***.

Fans and media singlehandedly elevated the East Coast-West Coast beef.

I’m pretty sure they made profit off his album

It’s more Keef than anything, a lot of niggas copied Chicago Drill in their raps when they came up.

Yes, now, in 2023, trap is declining 🤯

This is why 2000s revival been exploding this year tho

And country probably