Sabretooth
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This would be true pre streaming, but everyone's listening is accounted for, so you can say the charts now represent at the very least what is being consumed in mass.Let's not get caught up in that Billboard chart shyt tho'...
Because it's premature to just write the whole year off and start predicting hip-hop's death over some shyt so trivial. The Billboard 200 does not control or dictate hip-hop's past, present, or future. WE (the people who really consume and dictate what happens in the music) are in control of what happens to hip-hop and in particular, the music itself. Wherever that article stems from, they successfully have created a narrative in getting people to believe that hip-hop isn't "cool" anymore when all pop culture has been doing is leeching off of it for years. The music itself may not be topping the charts so far this year (keep in mind, we're six months in), but I'd wait before trumpeting some kind of "death" or "decline" based on that, because guess what... hip-hop's gonna thrive with or without the Billboard 200. Some of the greatest albums/artists ever didn't kill it on the Billboard 200 and nobody gave or gives a fk. Illmatic only reached #12 and I've never met anyone that cares.shyt's gonna be alright, mainstream success and chart positions ain't the make or break unless the artists and listeners allow it to be.
Everything from YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify etc,. Is counted vs before where only a purchase was.
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