I keep seeing that word “relevance”
Styles is just a different caliber artist. What does being flash in the pan. Jimmies music can be relevant to the time cause he wants to be relevant, but he’s not out here delivering classics.
So is relevance “motion right now, or is it being time-tested, respected and come up in actual convos with GOATs beyond your original “era”
Let’s not forget Styes worked with Biggie and many other legends of the 90s, transitioned well into the 2000s with solo hits (real jams alone ie; good times, can you believe it, blow my mind), featured on a big Rick Ross single, classic freestyles, mixtapes, and cypher verses.
fukk streaming numbers cause the dusty dealers up my block will crank the same song on rotation cause the beat is “relevant” and many hip-hop listeners cannot stand to age
Let’s look at tour numbers, featured requests, actual respect etc
They play more Taylor Swift on the radio than Michael
So are we speaking of overall relevance, musical relevance, or just who can stay in the news cycle the longest?