2016-19 was the CLOUT ERA
2020-2022 is the STREET/DRILL ERA
What’s the next wave?

WLR type beats.

If you’re lumping those entire eras into those waves then hyperpop/rage + whatever trendy name they give to Yeat’s producers style lol

soft melodic singing

music getting progressively worse for real this time

s*** I feel like Joe Budden

Street/Drill was 2010-2014 I wouldn't call what happened in 2020 "drill" or anything like that

Doubling vocals like 50 cent

Street blues rap over Guitar/piano beats

RXK

Nah the street/drill rappers definitely had a resurgence with rappers like durk, von, yb and pop smoke in the past years

r&b

Yeat/Ken Carson/post-WLR electronic & heavy bass influence that stemmed from European loopmakers ends up speeding up the tempo of internet rap in general

Street rap is going to be more and more Detroit and YB/Carti influenced as time goes on

PluggnB goes up and up. Production style of artists like K Suave, Ka$hdami, and Summrs continues to find its way into the mainstream

christian rap

Surprised nobody said yeat yet

WLR is doing what Take Care did in the 2010's. This is the Carti era everyone from Drake to Doja is copying his style

WLR/Die Lit type wave

Hopefully in the underground more Jazz artists our age continue to produce. Same with blues like Marcus King and Gary Russell.

Lol a couple brothas shouted out Yeat

WLR shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as take care. Drake has sons cuz of that album, triple entendre

2022-2025 = bobbycore

its still the street era

2020-2022 being the street era is just not accurate