In 5-7 years, rap music will be....(long read)

[Shadow King]

5 years is a little aggressive. Ten years definitely.

This positive reception/deflection of Drake having a questionable pen will accelerate it. They see they can feed B grade lyrics to a face and it'll go platinum plus without backlash.

This is bullshyt. As long as there are projects, ghettos, hood bytches, hood dudes, EBT, welfare and shootouts and basically broke people, there will always be music coming out of the streets.

That article is some in the moment fukk boy shyt. Record labels don't fukking matter. With social media the music world will be more diverse than ever in 5 years.

I think what he really should say is that in 10 years, main stream hip hop won't matter.

It'll be there but be a niche market. Like conscious rap or 90s inspired rap. It damn near is now except that street makes it to radio despite not really translating to sales. But soon it won't even get to radio.

 

[McPiff]

I blame this fatherless negro

yo wtf


this pic is all types of

 

[LurkMoar]

old heads always so annoying, its like the coliseum in here.

 

[Alaafin]

In 5 to 7 years there will be openly gay male hiphop artists. Some will probably even have ties to the street. If any rapper tries to use it as an insult watch that artist get dropped from their label. You've seen the corporate influence on this hiphop Drake vs Meek beef.

Watch the corporate takeover be complete when hiphop will follow the same code of ethics as the corporate world. Politically correct corporate hiphop

Imma just leave these here

Spoiler

 

[onelastdeath]

old heads always so annoying, its like the coliseum in here.

nikka im not an old head and i agree

 

[GetSomeMoney]

I for one welcome the change to hip hop for a couple of reason, the whole "street" "hood" angle is played out, tired of hearing it and tired of seeing kids strongly influenced by it, hence why "authenticity" was so important, no other music form cared so deeply whether the artist lived the life they talked and on top of that only looked toward people who lived a "hood" life as authentic, it's wack, it's been wack. What's interesting is people used the angle of "the hood needs their voice heard" but it just turned toward glorifying it, it's time for these underprivileged dudes to see something else, hopefully something more positive. Most of them have settled for the fame rap brings (cause it gives them the attention they seek, ex. Meek Mill) which has made it very bad for those that get in it today because there is no real money for 90% of the guys who get put on at a national level, let alone the guys who are still doing it locally. I'm not sure we need to worry about creating a new music form either, if many kids in the hood stop putting all their eggs in the basket for rap, maybe it forces them to hustle a more constructive way, maybe not the huge pay day that rap can POTENTIALLY bring but something more constructive. Rap, the way it's presently presented, has to be removed from the minds of young black dudes.

 

[AAKing23]

It'll be overtaken by Cacs, they're already here but it's only gonna get worse

 

[Absolut da poet ®]

Never count out the people(fans)

I agree with this

When the pendulum swings too far in one direction ...
There's usually an artist that comes along and restores order

 

[BlackMajik]

What happened to Jazz will happen to Hip Hop

 

[Roaden Polynice]

"long read"

It was like 300 words breh

 

[BlackMajik]

It's crazy how Cube predicted all this

Pretty soon hip-hop won't be so nice
No Ice Cube, just Vanilla Ice
And yall sit and scream and cuss
But there's no one to blame- but US

 

[Harry B]

1. Going back to the 80s the origins of rap, while I like a lot of street shyt most of it is ignorant and destructive.

2. We need a true balance, gangsters took too much place at one point. If they mirrored the community 90% of all brothers would be gangsters fukking mad bytches and getting fukked up. We have good balance now, Future/Meek holding down the street, J. cole/Chance etc the everyday man and/or problems, Kendrick that intelligently studying effects and dynamics of the hood, Drake introspective shyt, relationships and such and on.

3. Cats being safe, not getting locked up, perhaps getting educated and taking care of their families is not something I would be against.

4. Hiphop was pop back then as well, people were acting like they were gangsters to sell records and to portray a certain image that they thought was cool (fraudulent behaviour in other words). They were all going to Hollywood, endorsement deals and on.

 

[sporticus]

There's alot of truth to what OP said. Drake's got a lane and he stays mostly in it. He's got the tendency to try and look hard, but everybody know he isn't. Which is fine. Written or not, do you really think Drake is being anybody but himself? This kid JUSTUS ought to make a sane man 10x more upset than a halfway ghostwritten verse. Fukk being white, this cat JUSTUS is just plain terrible at his job. Em had skills. JUSTUS is a cookie cutter rapper with nothing to say and a weak way of saying it. By the way, Drake's name really is Drake. JUSTUS is named Justin Mehrle. He's also been known as JT and Love JT. Dre named him JUSTUS for marketing reasons and to make people forget he released a horrible mixtape under Love JT.

Dre's just doing what's in his nature. I've said for years, Dre's more about marketing than he is about music. He's a coward. He ran to Suge to get away from Eazy. He ran to Iovine to get away from Suge. Now he sees himself as the black Jimmy Iovine. Everything is about positioning, global marketing, and impact. He could give a fukk about making hot records, he just wants to be seen the in a certain light by certain people.

This is the same guy who said he expressed that he didn't smoke weed or sess and then made an album called The Chronic. He said gangsta rap was dead and then made a gangsta rap album. He worked on Detox for almost 10 years and didn't put it out. Had nothing at all to do with the music, he just couldn't find the right marketing hook. Now that he's got this movie coming out, he suddenly has a whole album to drop? Sitting on the radio talking about he loves J Dilla lol.