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

[GreenGhxst]

Earthgang fell off, trying to be clones

 

[Red Money]

I'm sure a 29 year old white guy breaking it down will be better received:

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Bow came up in an era where everyone was doing things vastly different from each other and originality was more likely to blow you up than biting so I get it

Lol

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

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.

I think you're missing the point that hip-hop/R&B are stale from every metric. Especially towards the target demographic. The charts are just one metric that actually matches up to how it is outside forreal.

Who are the top 5 artists under the age of 25 and name their current hit songs?

Back in the Snap/Ringtone rap era people incorrectly thought that hip-hop was dead. Actually those songs actually got GREAT reactions at parties and stood the test of time.

On the flip side, today's "hit" TikTok songs do terrible in real life. Especially once the 10 second TikTok segment is done. These songs are fizzling out at record speed.

Forget the pop audience, with Black audiences it's bad out chea.

 

[O.Red]

Earthgang fell off, trying to be clones

Another casualty of internet hyper fandom/consumption

Earthgang started believing the "THEY'RE THE NEW OUTKAST" hype too much and that was the beginning of the end of their chapter

The newer gens crave that comparison validation so much and don't realize how much it hurts them in the long run

Chloe and Normani being force fed as the next Beyonce was essentially the social bullet in the heart of their careers

Media and stans trying to make Kendrick the new hyper revolutionary Pac, and Kendrick leaned in so much that when it was too late to pull out he got frustrated with the entire image

i can go on and on with this shyt

And again. It's not just music. Hollywood might actually be worse we see all these classic franchises purchased and raided so these studios can pump out heap after heap of badly written , nostalgia bait slop. And what's the result? Nikkas ain't going to the movies anymore

Art as a whole has regressed into neat, repetitive, easily consumable packages and now everything is just background noise for vibes and nostalgia. Nikkas passively listen to the music, as they passively watch the movie or tv show

 

[InGodWeTrust]

Old millennial here.

Rap is so garbage lately I’ve been listening to 80s music and house.

Thot rap is trash and everything else is for TikTok. This is the new age of ringtone rap and we remember how trash those days were.

 

[ISO]

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

Stop it Thug music is not as melodic or wavy as Gunna's music. Thug can get in that bag but they clearly sound different to the ear.

None of those artists sound alike.

 

[ISO]

It hasn’t been 30 years and no one is bumping old bow wow

Lol Bow Wow has 2.9M monthly followers on Spotify he has some nostalgic, timeless songs...

 

[ISO]

A lot of people see it for what it is... people might feel like he's the wrong messenger, and of course I doubt he's gonna be the game changer but he ain't lyin'. I think I said on a thread here last week, it makes a lot of sense that most of the popular songs are comin' from women and the most popular song this year by a dude was "Just Wanna Rock"... nikkas gotta get outta the trap/drill/kill box 'cause it's had its run. Not that it's ever gonna end fully, but it's been running for like a decade. Music used to change very often, it's been a while since the last noticeable change, and it's currently in the middle of one. In the meantime, I think we're gonna see a lot of people fall to the wayside thinking they can keep making the same song and it's gonna be a hit like it would've been 5 years ago.

The problem is that a lot of the male rappers have been killed or incarcerated and on top of that a lot of hip-hop big male heavy hitters have been on hiatus or haven't dropped this year. I disagree that everything sounds the same nowadays you can put on some Lil Durk, then some Tyler the Creator, then some Benny, then some Moneybagg and its all pretty different.

I think hip-hop is back to being more regional now. Just Wanna Rock is actually a club drill song which is an example of hip-hop being more regional because thats the in sound on the East Coast particularly in NYC, Newark, Philly.

 

[En Sabah Nur]

Old millennial here.

Rap is so garbage lately I’ve been listening to 80s music and house.

Thot rap is trash and everything else is for TikTok. This is the new age of ringtone rap and we remember how trash those days were.

Bruh I been vibing with European white girls over these new rap nikkas

 

[King Poetic]

nikkas as usual talking about the messenger and not paying attention to the message

He’s right

All the women topic is their p*ssy sweet, nikkas eating their ass, they get birkin bags and they smacking and shooting hoes..

All these nikkas are on some shooting they opps, autotune, mumbling and zoned out on drugs.., these nikkas has become users than dealers

I see why Drake continues to succeed in this weak era, I see why Kendrick continues to win music awards because this era is garbage

 

[Mugenight]

He's right.

Also, You can blame mainstream Atlanta for the decline.

 

[trillanova]

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

At least he had his own sound. He never came in sounding like anybody and all his records sound like bow wow records. He has a few joints that are modern classics for a certain generation. He’s right.

 

[Pool_Shark]

It's done. There's a reason all the big artist in all genres have sold off there catalogues. It's a wrap. Things will never be how they used too.

On the other side though people aren't really rapping like that

 

[O.Red]

Stop it Thug music is not as melodic or wavy as Gunna's music. Thug can get in that bag but they clearly sound different to the ear.

None of those artists sound alike.

That shyt ain't true at all and even if it were it still wouldn't change the fact that Gunna is a blatant Thugga clone