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[Vic Damone. Jr]

The winning track

 

[M4T]

It's not bad but he's washed. He also needed better features

It's not bad but he's washed. He also needed better features.

I actually like that he's not relying on features (which is really just an algorithm hack to end up on as many playlists as possible) there's Pockets on verses that he steps up lyrically and shows that he can rap rap,but then he goes back to generic bars about fukking on yo bytch. He really needs a Pharrell or Kanye produced album someone that will push him. He could actually be Drake or J Cole level if he stopped half assing

 

[How Sway?]

hip hop is dying. I hear more R&B on the urban radio stations around here these days compared to like 10 years ago.

 

[CrimsonTider]

I actually like that he's not relying on features (which is really just an algorithm hack to end up on as many playlists as possible) there's Pockets on verses that he steps up lyrically and shows that he can rap rap,but then he goes back to generic bars about fukking on yo bytch. He really needs a Pharrell or Kanye produced album someone that will push him. He could actually be Drake or J Cole level if he stopped half assing

He’s always been limited by his lack of ear for beats.

 

[CrimsonTider]

hip hop is dying. I hear more R&B on the urban radio stations around here these days compared to like 10 years ago.

Urban radio is not how you measure relevance. You hear more R&B because only UNCs and Aunties are listening to radio in 2026

 

[M4T]

He’s always been limited by his lack of ear for beats.

Which is disappointing cuz he's got a standout rap voice. Everyone is doing wanna be Wayne Carti baby voice.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Which is disappointing cuz he's got a standout rap voice. Everyone is doing wanna be Wayne Carti baby voice.

He has one of the best rap voices ever, Tupac, Ross level

 

[Piff Perkins]

He has one of the best rap voices ever, Tupac, Ross level

My mom might like 12 rap songs at the most and can't tell what rappers are saying but that DaBaby feature on Levitating? She knows every word lol. Perfect pop rap feature.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Urban radio is not how you measure relevance. You hear more R&B because only UNCs and Aunties are listening to radio in 2026

The Inca and aunties of today grew up on rap. This makes no sense.

 

[L $ C]

It’s pretty dead. Big movers and shakers aren’t moving and shaking



Need Iceman and or a Kanye project

 

[ScoopNScore]

Are we all just too far into our own algorithms? Or is this just another sign of how dead the coli is with closed registration, locked out posters, and most of us being ?

All of this. Just look at the average era of front page threads

 

[CrimsonTider]

The Inca and aunties of today grew up on rap. This makes no sense.

Unc and Auntie just means old head. I’m assuming everyone in my Unc era is streaming

But you know there’s plenty of lames that get to an age and turn their nose up at rap