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Idk the people that track that s***

Serious question.

You actually think rap music was force fed on to us?

I don't think a genre like hip hop can become what it became inorganicly

I honestly just think artist nowadays ain't as engaging as the one's in the past and the numbers reflect.

Conservatism and puritan culture in the US

No

Kendrick numbers up.

Khaled album gonna save 2025

Christ almighty who tf

No way

I think when you look at the numbers, hiphop numbers have decreased but other genres haven’t significantly increased.

I think “visitors of hiphop” during it’s most popular time, when everyone was trying to work with some form of a hiphop artist, added to those numbers and made hiphop as large as it was. As these listeners left, it appears that hiphop is less popular, but that’s not really the case.

It’s just as popular as other music, just those “visitor” listeners aren’t popping in to check on Baby Keem, because like you said, these artists aren’t as engaging as artists in the pass so fair weather fans have nothing else keeping them around therefore the first week is amazing but then it tapers off to its usual mean, which still isn’t bad when you compare it to other genres.

Also we can’t keep looking at hiphop through one lense. Hiphop is huge on Apple Music and YouTube. Apple’s streams aren’t public, but always relying on Billboard and Spotify really narrows the view of hiphops success. I mean look at all the dudes having successful careers cause they built a strong YouTube and other social media following. It’s not 100k+, but it’s a nice 30k-60k in the new system and you still selling shows and growing your fan base. Rio da Young OG is taking home $3k a month off just his music’s streaming. It’s s*** like this we don’t really be aware of cause we focus on numbers from an old viewpoint.

Tiktok ruined peoples brains. Albums and hits just come and go now

Took 2 pages for mf's to admit the quality has been dog s***, Amen lol

Im seeing that the younger part of Gen Z isn’t as much into rap as we were. It happens when something becomes too mainstream and popular. Hip Hop was against the mainstream. Then it became the main genre of music. I am not really sure what they are listening to tho.

Country and pop music

You could call the years 2016-2022 the gold rush era of Hip Hop because the labels were promoting just anybody as long it made money. Someone like Tekashi made the a lot of money short term but long term, artists like him damaged the genre. Basically there was no quality control

The quality has gone down the drain. The reason albums like GNX and Chromakopia have been successful is because they’re well thought out bodies of work.

Rap has also faced major competition from other genres. The amount of superstars to emerge in Latin music over the past 5 years is insane. Then you got Pop and country music blowing up in popularity.

Bruh read it again and if it still don’t make sense it’s because you are assuming some s*** that has nothing to do with what I said

Damn this thread aged like milk

You said force fed to the masses

Implying hip hop was force fed

I don't think so. I think there was a natural infatuation and attraction to rap.

But like someone already said it got too mainstream and lost a lot of its original allure.

I don't think hip hop at any point in time even at its peak was something pushed by the machine.

This ain't pop or country hip hop was something raw that the suits prolly didn't even like. But the numbers and the people spoke

Now it seems like the numbers and people are speaking again

Bruh what are you talking about lmao

cuz the young rappers are ASS

Motherfucker did you not just say that we don't listen to rap no more cause it is not force fed

I am making the argument that rap was never a force fed phenomena