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Plenty of dope artists out even in the mainstream.
Stop listening to Chief Keef.
Stop listening to Chief Keef.
I Believe Hip-Hop's Current Problem Is...
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Exactly. Looks at how many different artists of different genres had started seeing falling sales around the same time over the past 10 years. The fan bases are merging towards one another and it seems they all agree on the grounds that buying CDs aren't worth it.
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This isn't proof.
Music is not consumed by listening purchasing albums today.
There are many different artist that are being consumed today. Many more than the 90s. with many more styles.
man as someone with his finger on the underground scene i just gotta say we do too much complaining about "the state of hip hop''
just let it get destroyed and rebuild it if its worth it.
there are plenty, and i mean plenty of doooooopppe MCs under the radar. Blu <<<<<<< 's all i gotta say.
just let it get destroyed and rebuild it if its worth it.
there are plenty, and i mean plenty of doooooopppe MCs under the radar. Blu <<<<<<< 's all i gotta say.
hip hop was meant to go underground,shake off thee ticks and parasites of perceived popularity,hip hop is a spiritual culture,rap is a fad that needs to decimated anyways,let them go bump their dance music,fall victim to the gay control,shyt on women,they're meant to perish in Harmageddon anyways,no room for funboys on thee mothership...
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i had to chime in on this one. i explained this 100 times on sohh, and i've done it hear a few times. lets go over this.
hiphop = mainstream + underground.
hiphop in the early 80's was virtually 100% underground.
mid to late 80's, it was 60/40 underground and mainstream
the 90's hiphop was 70% mainstream/30% underground
2000's (early to 2010) hiphop was 90% mainstream/10% underground.
2010-beyond hiphop is 70% mainstream/30%underground.
the 90's was the golden era of hiphop. because virtually all of the mainstream, lets say 65% of it was HOT. that leaves 5% for one hit wonders and trash songs
20% of the underground stuff was Hot. some should've been in the mainstream but the mainstream was so strong there was no more room.
most of your favorite rappers of today are getting by off of a cool vibe(drake) for instance. he isnt horrible. but he surely isnt great in terms of all eras.
put drake in the 90's and he would be an underground artist you liked .
but imagine this. if he's the king of hiphop right now. that means everyone underneath him is less then underground level. do you not understand that kind of drop off?
now i know what you're going to say. but but the underground just dont get any play. of course it doesnt. cause its not that good. if it was. you and i would be buying it.
listen the underground was so good. nuccas could've bootlegged it. but they chose to pay for it. the underground was so good. dudes had chicks buying albums of groups/mcees they knew nothing about. chicks saying "i like that one song that goes..." on some undeground mcees album. lol
this era overall is subpar at best. face it. admit it. and get better. keep lying about it just being a mainstream issue. and it will never get better.
lastly, the southern trap sound that just wont die. i blame the south for that one. yall keep pushing these new rappers with the same stale sound, same hihats, same snares, claps, same 808s. i mean even the hits are in the same spots. and yall love it. cause as long as it sounds like a strip club hit. yall going to jump on it like a group of chicks. i'm talking about southern dudes. there was a time where the south mainstream had a lot of different sounds. now its all the same for the most part. and its yalls fault for buying it and downloading those songs. they counting legal and illegal downloads as a vote.
breh i bought every Blu release some twice over and met up with people at his shows who have done the similar. but he's an underground MC with zero play and you really tryna tell me its becuz its not that good?
naw
its becuz you and other mainstream sheep are waiting for Miguel to sing on his hooks and give him a big single and finally go out and check for his music.
just cuz its underground dont mean its wack. some artists like Blu choose to stay under the radar.
oh and that whole percentage of what was underground and mainstream in certain decades dont make too much sense imo
stop the lies.
i had to pull this old list up from another site.
look at the honorable mentions.
listen if you ever wanna know how good the 90's were. especially early to mid90's. they were so good. jay-z was an after thought. no lie, no exaggeration. if prime jay-z was an after thought, how good could the music have been? i mean most of us slept on reasonable doubt. slept hard. i mean jigga was darn near an underground artist that some of his early fans were mad at the world for not feeling him like they were. thats how good the music was in the 90's.
thats like saying lebron james is an after thought because of some era he played in. imagine that for a moment. for LBJ to be an after thought. he would have to play in an era with prime jordan, prime magic, prime bird, prime hakeem, prime shaq, prime david robinson, prime wilt, prime jerry west, prime kobe, prime tmac(pre knees), prime vince(when he felt like going hard), prime I.thomas, prime kareem, prime oscar, etc.
thats how good the 90's hiphop scene was. it felt that good then. and even when you listen to an old school playlist. you just shake your head at how good it was and how versatile it was back then. its a shame that the new era has to deal with some much stale aka same same music.
but here's that list to prove a point
i dare anyone to look up each one of those songs. you know what. just pull 5 of them from the list. and tell me they all sound the same or remotely the same. they wont. especially from that 92 list at the bottom.
i'll make it easy on you.
some of the songs i just posted from the 92 billboard charts.
click the link and listen to these few songs. and imagine most of those artist are east coast artist. and they still dont sound the same. artists nowadays can be from all over the place. but yet all same very similar.
i'll make it easy on you.
some of the songs i just posted from the 92 billboard charts.
click the link and listen to these few songs. and imagine most of those artist are east coast artist. and they still dont sound the same. artists nowadays can be from all over the place. but yet all same very similar.
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There is more but that doesn't necessarily equates to better. Honestly, the music game is over-saturated with mediocre and talentless people. Art is art but we're speaking about things at the largest scale.
^This guy who commented.
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are the proof of the depreciation in songwriting capabilities. I never knew how to trap but I learned in 3 minutes and 25 seconds.
Trapping so easy even a caveman can do it.
