Can any rapper make an actual hit record anymore?

[28 Gramz]

Glorilla

Glorilla is big in whore circles not the suburbs.

The OP is talking about songs like Stronger, In Da Club, Live Ya Life, Hot In Herre etc..shyt that transcends the genre and ends up in movies, commercials 10 years after theyre released.

 

[50CentStan]

Music lost its value. And rap probably the most watered down trash genre now.

 

[010101]

they don't put ink on paper & their vocal delivery is repulsing

it's not music for big business

it's disposable shyte to package with the different flavors of cheap poison sold to the common folks

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[M4T]

Kendrick literally made a bunch of them last year.

When 50 performed at the Superbowl, everybody and their grandma knew the words, when Kendrick performed half of America was tryna figure out who we was

 

[M4T]

fukk it...chasing commercial hits is what lead to so much trash output in the first place. Genre needs to go back underground.

These new rappers aren't chasing hits, they are clout chasing. They barely stick to any type of song structure, and when they can't finish the song, they just slap 2 songs together and call it a beat switch. I don't wanna hear rappers like Jadakiss tryna make a hit, but rap songs crossing over was the reason why rappers got big budgets. The lack of money spent on artist development and production is a big part of the reason new rap sucks.

 

[Revolutionary]

NLU is probably biger than in da club. And daily reminder that Kendrick also has the best selling rap song of all time, which is not NLU.

 

[WeezyFB]

NLU is probably biger than in da club. And daily reminder that Kendrick also has the best selling rap song of all time, which is not NLU.

This.

 

[Second Chance Lance]

Sexy Redd

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[WeezyFB]

50 performed 1 song as a guest at the SB and everybody was wondering who he was. Kendrick performed twice

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

NLU had more organic legs to it

In Da Club was just the peak saturation level the industry could muster

In Da Club had 5th grade kids sneaking onto class computers to watch the video on MSN.com

Kids know about it to that extent before they’re leaving their house because of the long arm of the mainstream industry promotional vehicle

But I walked by dive bars in LA K-Town that threw on NLU, after promo cycle, and the energy shift inside was palpable enough to feel it while walking by on the sidewalk…. And I’m not even into the song like that

The reason Kendrick doesn’t fit this bill is because his songs are displays of Kendrick’s unique sonic signature (vocally) and more reflective of his brand of songs rather than an example of high achievement contemporary excellence

No

 

[TheRtist]

People actually liked In Da Club as a pure song. It just got super played out but it was huge just by listening.

 

[kevin arnold]

 

[HoldThisL]

This just confirmed how old I am, cause who tf are these guys

 

[Piff Perkins]

The charts is fugazi. nba youngboy selling out arenas while not being a top 20 hit maker proves that.

That just shows his (predominantly young and black) fanbase doesn't pay for streaming services. His youtube numbers are very high but they don't count towards charts as much as paid streaming.

In terms of hits....Drake had a hit (Nokia) this year, Kendrick has had the biggest rap song this year (Luther) and last year (Not Like Us). There have been hits. The issue is Drake and Kendrick are in their mid 30s. I'd argue rap has gone through a lot of misfortune that has led to a generation missing. X/Juice/Pop dying killed off the next big three. Uzi/Kodak/Carti becoming drug addicts has removed potential hit makers from the market. Then the Thugger fukkery has indirectly led to Baby falling off and Gunna not being as big as he should be. In the void we got a lot of thot rap but that shyt was never going to last.

 

[ROBEEZYKILLA]

Wow I can just tell their bars and flow are trash