Bow Wow Shared His Opinion On Why Hip Hop Hasn't Charted : Everything Sounds Alike, Everything Sounds Repetitive, Same Tempo...."

[Mac Ten]

Bow has been retired from rapping for just about or going on a decade now. His opinion is still valid regardless.

Bow Wow sold records back when u had to ride to FYE after work to buy the album...


He's a legend to me. JD changed his life.


I wish that he didn't diss him nor Da Brat

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Somehow I think this will effect the performers and their will be a rise in AI some kind of way.

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

Let's not get caught up in that Billboard chart shyt tho'...

Well take it from the Black hip-hop DJs. It's bad out here for us and older songs get more reaction than the current songs by a landslide.




The top songs now are all TikTok songs where people do a dance for 10 seconds and then sit there waiting for the next song.

 

[Still Benefited]

Basically Atlanta created a bunch of clones and ran the shyt into the ground. But if you say that shyt then they say you're hating.

Do you mean a bunch of nikkas cloned Atlanta rappers?

 

[IIVI]

Well take it from the Black hip-hop DJs. It's bad out here for us and older songs get more reaction than the current songs by a landslide.




The top songs now are all TikTok songs where people do a dance for 10 seconds and then sit there waiting for the next song.

Yup. That's a good breakdown. Even car commercials doing it now.

Part of the problem is something like 100,000 songs get released onto streaming music every day.

The Ledger: Are There Really 100,000 New Songs Uploaded a Day? Maybe More.

How much music is added to Spotify and other streaming services daily?

www.billboard.com

Back in the day you had to save up a whole bunch of money to make music. Equipment that cost over $1k had to be purchased.

Now everybody with a computer has access to the exact same sounds they used from the 50's to today.
Nearly every single piece of iconic musical hardware has been converted into software and we can bend sounds on a wide scale in ways we weren't able to before.

Again, all from a computer so that means billions of people can now make music and people are definitely flooding the market more than any time in history.

 

[thaKEAF]

Shad Moss speaking fax

 

[3rdWorld]

You know it's hit rock bottom when Bow Wow says the whole thing is pure garbage..who still thinks it can salvaged??

 

[GreenGhxst]

He right

I can't wait until the crash dummy raps amount to nothing

 

[GreenGhxst]

Rappers need to be in the booth making music, not being on Social Media....

We need a new rap battle that will bring excitement, not Lil Uzi Skirt getting smacked with a big azz Cell Phone.


Honestly, when was the last time that Bow Wow even had any hits? Let alone put out a single.

If you're not gonna be a part of the solution, just be quiet Shad.

Somebody with fame had to say it

Bow wow had hits

 

[bigde09]

Older artists are out streaming todays artists in hip hop. Spotify put out top 50 most listen to rappers and it was all Drake, Em, Wayne, 50, Kanye, Jay, Pac etc.

 

[Mac Ten]

Somebody with fame had to say it

Bow wow had hits

He did..


Bow Wow should have took the Nick Cannon route and focused on being family friendly, not trying to be Clifford Harris Jr.

 

[Ish Gibor]

It’s because a lot of artists now are lower tier with little to no talent!

 

[GoFlipAPack]

Do you mean a bunch of nikkas cloned Atlanta rappers?

Nah everyone wanted to sounds like future or gucci.

 

[fallback]

Another big issue nowadays is the type of demographic at least for nyc...
-Those in their 30s and 40s are checking for rappers from when we were younger (90s and 2000s) like Nas, Jay, Jadakiss, Lloyd banks etc. who either only a small demographic still listens to or they aren't dropping any albums at all
-Those n their 20s and early 30s still check in on the rappers like Drake, Kendrick and Cole but the young ones don't listen to them like that.
-Those in their teens and early 20s listen to DD Osama and kay flock etc. but no group above is checking for them like that and no one outside of NYC is checking them like that.

So as a result you have a bunch of artists with small lanes but no big appeal anymore. Either everyone has aged out and are legendary acts (Jay, Nas etc.), about to start aging out (Cole, Drake, Kendrick) or doesn't have enough appeal (NYC drill).

Like someone said earlier Pop smoke was able to appeal to both old and young by having that DMX/50 feel to him but also doing drill music but the next big artist is going to have to be talented and be social media savvy.

 

[O.Red]

I been saying this for like a decade:

Future
Young Thug
Migos
Gunna
Etc.

Are all just clones

Thug started as a clone but he went above and beyond and changed music

Future, Thug, Migos don't sound anything alike but Gunna is a clear Thug clone

We can have the discussion but nikkas gotta be intellectually honest