Drake is 38. Kendrick will be 38 in 6 months. Is this bad for rap?

[Canada Goose]

I'm 33 so obviously Kendrick and Drake are older than me lol and TBH, I find BOTH of their catalogs far more appealing than the rappers that came after.



Earlier today I was listening to the top 100 Hip Hop songs in the streaming era on Spotify and most of those songs had me like



I enjoy Future, Big Sean, Wale and J Cole music too so I lump them in with Kendrick and Drake.... everybody else that came after them nikkas?

 

[JoelB]

Hard to be next up if you're dead

Pop Smoke
Von
Juice
Nipsey
XXX
Mac Miller
Mo3
Snupe
Drakeo

and im sure im missing another dozen.

 

[Fiji Water]

Labels investing in rappers in their late 30s is…a choice...

I think it's natural. Sort of.

Kanye gave Jay an extra life, so to speak. And the nasty beef drew a lot of attention.

You also have more rap fans than every. The Roots being on late night is legendary, pun intended.

But to the point of labels? Are they even still investing like that? For the bigger, grown man acts, it looks like leverage more than anything. Maybe that's the same thing.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Rakim, Nas, Scarface, Busta, etc. were all teenagers when they came out, that shyt ain't never happening again

 

[DapMeUp!]

I think Tyler's solidified his spot, he's just alternative.

Lil baby and gunna falling out stunted baby who probably would be one.

Youngboy not having even some semblance of sense halted his trajectory.

I mean Tyler was around the time those guys got popping technically he is of their era although he isn't really grouped with them.

Ironically you mention Lil Baby which is exactly the trajectory I expect the newer acts to go.
A hot year or two and everyone kinda moves on.

 

[CrushedGroove]

Dang. Kendrick is old. A washed old man

 

[CarltonJunior]

I'm 33 so obviously Kendrick and Drake are older than me lol and TBH, I find BOTH of their catalogs far more appealing than the rappers that came after.



Earlier today I was listening to the top 100 Hip Hop songs in the streaming era on Spotify and most of those songs had me like



I enjoy Future, Big Sean, Wale and J Cole music too so I lump them in with Kendrick and Drake.... everybody else that came after them nikkas?

They were the last generation of pre-streaming hip-hop musicians. They understand how to create a full product and what elements are needed for music. The post-streaming rappers just viral bait and try to game the system. Very few of them are really putting together full projects of substance.

A few try tho. Glorilla, Latto, NLE choppa, just to name a few, have surprised me with their recent projects even tho they didn't nail them.

 

[Po pimp]

Hard to be next up if you're dead

Pop Smoke
Von
Juice
Nipsey
XXX
Mac Miller
Mo3
Snupe
Drakeo

and im sure im missing another dozen.

Nipsey was older than Kendrick and Drake. He would’ve been 40 this year. Crazy that Cole is already 40.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

nikkas act like you can tear an ACL rapping.
Vulture mentality

J Cole functionally did this.

Whatever people say about Drake, I think Cole hurt himself infinitely more. Cole put himself in Big Sean territory. I mean Wale could lap him right now if Wale wanted to.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I think Tyler's solidified his spot, he's just alternative.

Lil baby and gunna falling out stunted baby who probably would be one.

Youngboy not having even some semblance of sense halted his trajectory.

Tyler has a weird fan base. Half of it is trolling but he’s maturing but he has no real HITS yet. It’s very strange. His support is almost some embrace of counter culture and identity but not music.

 

[SNG]

The sooner peope realize that hip hop isn’t it just a young man’s game. Majority of rappers don’t hit they prime until they 30s

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Hard to be next up if you're dead

Pop Smoke
Von
Juice
Nipsey
XXX
Mac Miller
Mo3
Snupe
Drakeo

and im sure im missing another dozen.

How’d you leave off Dolph?

or in jail

We lost a LOT of guys in the last 5 years smh.

Not to mention the whole 1017 label fiasco

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

The sooner peope realize that hip hop isn’t it just a young man’s game. Majority of rappers don’t hit they prime until they 30s

So Joey Badass has a chance?

 

[SNG]

How’d you leave off Dolph?

or in jail

We lost a LOT of guys in the last 5 years smh.

Not to mention the whole 1017 label fiasco

Honestly I think it’s more than any generation. 90s had a lot of lost too but the nikkaz in the 2010s is alarming.

 

[spliz]

U ain’t slick nikka. lol,