yes

Nobody else in the 30s had bars like this

I'm saying, listen to this

i just wanna say that prince is close second for the 80s artists.

he revolutionized the idea of self producing your music. dude inspired millions including myself.

that being said, yes, mj is the most important artist of the 80s

First time I heard a variation of this was the Indiana Jones temple of doom intro

MJ wouldn't have been MJ without Quincy Jones but Prince would have been Prince no matter what

Same of course

Then Fallout drove it into my head 3000 times but it never gets old. Insanely gnarled complex rhyme scheme for any era let alone the 30s.

What makes Drake the most important artist of the 2010s?

Like I said in OP, the list is not just asking who the most popular artist of each decade was. Six of my picks aren’t that (Little Richard, Stevie Wonder, Tupac/Biggie, Kanye, Beyoncé, Bad Bunny)

First real trap album basically created trap and put on damn near the whole 2010s wave of trap artists

Trap house 2005
Some might say trap muzik but that was not really that far from other southern music at the time like boosie and is p distinct from what Gucci did on trap house which was the start of trap

Put on early:
Waka flocka
Chief keef
Young Thug
Future
Migos
Zaytoven
Metro Boomin
Mike will made it
Southside
Lex Luger

Lil Uzi but not as much as the others

Countless others are inspired by him
he was a cultural phenomenon who’s legendary to this day

His mixtape model was highly influential and changed how artists even dropped music

The way he even recorded was massively influential alongside Wayne, even his diss tracks (one of the most legendary oat)

Had 2 (arguably even 3) classics with chicken talk, burrprint 3D, state vs radric Davis and Trap house

It’s not many other people in music history that were this hands on in creating such a massive genre let alone also this much of a blueprint with this much influence and quality overtime

Even later in life in the late 2010s the guy still modeled that whole short lived Memphis wave w/ new 1017

50s- Ella Fitzgerald
60s- Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
70s- Earth Wind and Fire
80s- Run DMC
90s- D’Angelo
00s- T-Pain
10s- Drake
20s- Billie Eilish

Need a thread on top 5 Gucci asap

2020s osamason
2010s carti
2000s ye
1990s liz phair

I thought T-Pain was gunna be Michael Jackson level success when he was in his prime

Sub in Bob Marley in the 70s and Taylor in the 10s and you got it

soulja boy

You ain't got James Brown in neither 60s nor 70s?

Bush

1000% kraftwerk belongs in the convo

unironically i would put burial in least convo for 00s

i feel his sound is precursor to lot of moody stuff that come out in 2010s

1950s: fats domino
1960s: the beatles
1970s: billy joel
1980s: depeche mode
1990s: radiohead
2000s: lady gaga
2010s: grimes
2020s: snow strippers

i posted an artist whose first album was released for each decade

50s: miles davis
60s: beatles
70s: stevie wonder or bowie
80s: butthole surfers
90s: butthole surfers
00s: butthole surfers
10s: drake
20s: dave blunts

wow so edgy. but if you're serious, damn you dumb

and I hate her for that