influential internet-based collective with a couple successful alums but never reached its full commercial potential due to mismanagement

however, it's still highly regarded in the underground

2019-2020 was the last time we really got a big crop of rappers breaking through, though a lot of
them have faded since

The thing with Raider Klan and even early A$AP Mob before they hit it big was that they really did bring a new sound to the game during a seeming stagnation (ringtone rap, radio pop-rap, jerk music, etc.)

It had a degree of originality to it even if it was riffing off older tropes

Most of these newer underground cliques and artists largely sound the same and sound like copies of the older plugg wave and pull from chief keef in the exact same way it sounds like

Lazer Dim has been mentioned multiple times and this is the second song in his top songs list.

idk if u just weren't there for it but slayworld 100% was on some different s***. definitely brought something new sound-wise.

maybe it's harder to understand looking back at it cus that sound is more normalized now, but when summrs dropped packrunner b**** that sht sounded like it came from the year 3000

this is my favorite from him

It’s all been downhill since WLR I fear

Because these new niggas just not wavy

no one believes your dating a girl

not sure if your very aware of slayworld then. Slayworld popularized pluggnb they didnt copy nobody. Lol. Autumn, and Summrs are arguably the people who made the subgenre what it is and KANKAN's early style still hasnt been replicated. They were very different.

hes a niche experimental underground artist man it aint for everyone

Love how this post is under Melz, because it's really the truth

I mean the landscape is different
spending money is different

this era might reflect the blog era more than the SoundCloud that came before them tbh if we talking about economics

the cream will rise but like we’ve seen, s*** that can’t get real legs/be capitalized will get left in the dust
not like that was diff from the SoundCloud era but there’s just smaller budgets to give kids a chance that may have gotten one 7 years ago

And as someone who was the peak age during the SoundCloud era

I can say a lot of my peers were listening to some straight up garbage so I’m approaching this era w the same set of ears

I’m not really swayed by the moment if I genuinely am not f***ing w the music or see where it fits in at the minimum

First off those mfs were never underground they were SoundCloud label picks that survived the SoundCloud ice age, there was no come up or no one keeping them from rising they all rose like what

I never heard “yo this dude lil yachty gonna pop just watch” He dropped broccoli and that was it. Signed and diddyd quick.

The current underground is active it’s just not being picked up because 5G got y’all washed and you will not find it on Tik Tok. You actually need to dig because it’s underground…

Exactly because doing that would retract the underground aspect 😂

Y’all gotta DIG. I’m sorry if your just lazy but there is TONS of artists that none of y’all no about because it’s not POPPIN. Because it’s UNDERGROUND.

Mfs need a dictionary or what? This site was once used to uncover and put shine on new artists. Now they just wanna talk about grown men who make more money than they do.

The covid ktt era when @tupacarti was pushing all those hyperpop/glitch pop artists I'll die on this hill but the underground scene has been so ass since then and they were all like 15 too crazy crazy

I'm not reading this dude.

Then don’t reply

People still gonna read it I didn’t make it for you specifically baby girl

Imo only Yeat has the creativity to take his music in the next level and surface on the mainstream from the current crop of "up-and-coming" artists. As for Opium for example, I think that will stay in the underground they're not that good, or for that matter the new gen Lazer Dim or Ian I just don't see em breaking through in that type of level. Yeat is the only one who actually created a new sound and was a breath of fresh air into hip-hop from 2020 onwards. I was disappointed by 2093 tho relative to what I expected from him to be more creative.

Yeat prolly the most influential in this new industry era for sure, the beats alone is obvious. 90% of the local youngins in my city on that wave.

Underground used to be up and comers going against the grain, under dogs. Maybe I’m just old as f*** now though. I do like some of Yeat tho but I’d say he surpassed that underground era he was once in. No one’s really holding him back he’s kinda already up there. Close thread lowkey yeat did his thing despite the grain and now his sound is being replicated.

The fact that his sound is being replicated, and his beat choices and in general the total sonic aspect of it, goes to show that he is the only one that is innovative and has actually influenced the genre, increasingly even more. While I don't see these other rappers that get mentioned, have nowhere near that type of influence. Yeat is already past some sort of level for sure, but he can go even further because it's obvious that he has the talent to do it. I do listen to some of Yeat too, he dope imo especially when you see that it's not exactly brimming with new and refreshing artists like him.