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

[Complexion]

The days of an artist just being like a hammer that you hold in your hand (ie makes hits) are long gone. All of this need to be up in the socials everyday.... hootin... hollerin... is like creativity being sent to death row. The real death row. The music no longer speaks for itself.

Art on the whole has been scraping the plate of its last meal for quite a while in a lot of mediums as there is little innovation and plenty of biting and recycling. Wonder why that could be?

 

[O.Red]

This issue goes beyond hip hop. Everybody's tired of everything everywhere. This is an art, homogenization for capitalism's sake issue

The movies and shows ain't hittin on shyt either and people are

The issue is the internet has both elevated and destroyed art. Consumption levels are so high and rapid that companies take advantage and hyper homogenize everything

To be clear music has always had copycats and biters, but the internet has made it so that the burnout cycle happens much faster. When Prince came out there were plenty of copycats, but if Prince came out today there would be 500 Prince clones online in a month and the style would burnout

 

[hood b. goode]

Can we stop performatively shytting on bow wow?

 

[ORDER_66]

He's not wrong!!!

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Was listening to a bunch of songs from 2023 yesterday. Of all those 20 or 25 songs, one rapper stood out and that was Tyler with that "Dogtooth" song, from the lyrics to production. Everything else was repetitive as fukk

 

[IIVI]

This issue goes beyond hip hop. Everybody's tired of everything everywhere. This is an art, homogenization for capitalizations sake issue

The movies and shows ain't hittin on shyt either and people are

The issue is the internet has both elevated and destroyed art. Consumption levels are so high and rapid that companies take advantage and hyper homogenize everything

To be clear music has always had copycats and biters, but the internet has made it so that the burnout cycle happens much faster. When Prince came out there were plenty of copycats, but if Prince came out today there would be 500 Prince clones online in a month and the style would burnout

Yup. Video cameras, DAWs, video creation suites, etc. right in everyone's hands.

Everything uploaded on platforms that support it in real time, don't have to worry about physical distribution and manufacturing costs.

The era of real time is officially here and been here.

Now there's A.I to make all this exponentially faster. So we haven't even hit anywhere close to this era's potential yet. It's only going to get faster.

 

[Theflash]

This the same pump faking clout sucker who was on a commercial flight after portraying that he had a private jet. He contributed to fakkits in hiphop

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

If he was an 80’s or 90’s rapper he’d get all the emojis. He’s used to taking L’s so people will just use that. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens if more rappers in Bow Wow’s age/era comes out against what’s happening in rap now. This might hit different than “old heads hating”

I mean, 36 is an old head in terms of hip hop and the age of the artists he’s talking about.

 

[spliz]

I been saying this for like a decade:

Future
Young Thug
Migos
Gunna
Etc.

Are all just clones

U just named a group of artists that sound nothing like eachother. Lol

 

[Tribal Outkast]

I mean, 36 is an old head in terms of hip hop and the age of the artists he’s talking about.

I’m saying that people still associate 80’s and 90’s rappers with hating on the younger rappers. It hasn’t come around to his era yet.. Maybe now if the time though.

 

[spliz]

Bow Wow is right tho.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I’m saying that people still associate 80’s and 90’s rappers with hating on the younger rappers. It hasn’t come around to his era yet.. Maybe now if the time though.

Cole’s KOD was pretty much scolding them and maybe artists haven’t been as vocal. But plenty of people/fans age 35-42 (basically old millennials) have been vocal in hating these young dudes

 

[Piff Perkins]

The only reason we're having this conversation is because Her Loss came out in November 2022 instead of early 2023. That's it. It's been a slow year for major rap releases. Once the big boys come out to play what will be the narrative? Uzi is dropping real soon. Drake is dropping real soon. Cole is dropping. Future is dropping. Cardi might be dropping.

 

[ABlackMan]

while his general premise isn't wrong... bow wow of all people talking about artistry

First post and pure ignorance. Y’all should practice shutting the fukk up and paying the fukk attention.

 

[DANJ!]

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.

And that's fair, because their opinions actually should be the ones valued when it comes to hip-hop, not what's #1 on Billboard.

Look up some of these classic artists and albums and see where they hit on Billboard, I'm sure most people will be surprised. But it did not matter whatsoever at the time because the listeners and the core audience of hip-hop did not give a fukk about a chart or what number something was. We still got the freedom to like what we wanna like without allowing Billboard and all these other outlets to have us acting like hip-hop is "dying" just because something isn't doing the same sales as Miley Cyrus or Taylor Swift. It's just hyperbole based on popularity and not music.