Mac Ten
Class of 97 !!!
Hip hop died when the feds got Fetty Wap
Once Future dropped that Summer, it was a wrap...
Fetty Wap and Desiigner were both Future clones.
Both of em could be easily replaced.
Juicy J "Rap Music is down 40% in sales this year"
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Once Future dropped that Summer, it was a wrap...
Fetty Wap and Desiigner were both Future clones.
Both of em could be easily replaced.
I know the older artists started getting out of hand with their demands and publishing percentages, but the whole point is trying to keep your music alive to newer generations too. Don't get out of hand with demands. A bird in the hand is worth more than 2 in the bush.
Mac Ten
Class of 97 !!!
Man, I wish I knew. Say what you want, but James Brown showed a lot of love to artists and didn't take them to the cleaners for all of the sampling cats did with his shyt.
Mac Ten
Class of 97 !!!
Swahili P'Bitek
Absorbingpovertywithoutlimitations
The market is to be blamed for drop in quality as well. You can't blame obesity on fast food restaurants alone, if there is no homecooking or demand for it, kids get used to junkfood. Popular music requires a source to draw from, be it hip hop whose Mother/father in the name of RnB has been thrown in the bushes by the market, Dancehall with reggae or Afropop with authentic afrobeats. Musical creativity from computers alone can only last for so long.
Smitty Belafonte
All Star
Are the young nikkas still telling the older nikkas that we just don’t understand what’s going on these days? Y’all lil mfkrs don’t like the new bullshyt rap either. A bunch of ratchet women rappers running the game and everybody scared to say it’s trash
You just named outliersTwo of the most well reviewed video games of all time came out this year. Barbie & Mario put up big numbers on the movie side.
This a rap problem.
Artists been getting a pass for releasing trash for a while now. Shorter songs, no artistry, no lyricism, no album crafting, no more dance music. People not pressured to co-sign bullshyt artists to fit in no more since internet era fans don't have the same sort of universally popular water cooler artists like in prior times so no more "u just not in touch breh".
Chickens coming home to roost
Barbie and Mario are two successful movies in an ocean of 2023 mega flops, wrapped in the context of a Hollywood that has been struggling (pre pandemic before you use that excuse). There aren't even movie stars anymore, and it's not for lack of trying on Hollywood's end
Two games in an ocean of a gaming industry dwindling due to consumer apathy. Nikkas are getting tired of buying the same shyt year in and out, and there's an incoming strike
What's the movie, show, or album that people are looking forward to? Everything just exists now because everything is mediocre to trash with the odd exception.
Y'all can staunchly make it just about rap because that was how op presented it but this is a much larger societal issue
Everyone is going through the motions, chasing bags, not taking risks, and pandering to advertisers and investors . Everyone is creatively bankrupt
GOOD, fukk the rap game.
Hip Hop culture is alive and well. The artform of rap is alive and well, the industry of exploitation and proifteering to the advantage of cacs is is dying a slow death, thank god.
You still going to love it when you can't use it for a come up?
Hip Hop culture is alive and well. The artform of rap is alive and well, the industry of exploitation and proifteering to the advantage of cacs is is dying a slow death, thank god.
You still going to love it when you can't use it for a come up?
You didn't
No one is ever gonna be honest about the fact that the separation between older and younger black folks has a lot more to do with the older generations bad faith arguments and jealousy disguised as "game" than anything the youth is doing.
Older nikkas love blaming the kids for living out conditions older nikkas created, but when it's time to address the issues of the older generation nikkas are suddenly blameless. Some of y'all posting in Sexy Redd threads ad nauseam like to ignore that a Trina, Kim, Uncle Luke ever existed. Some of y'all worshipped Eazy E as kids but look at the seeds of the Eazy tree and wanna cry shyt has gone too far. Shyt has grown naturally
Even if I set content aside y'all couldn't even school the youth on not signing the same bad contracts black folks been signing for 70 years
y'all don't even own anything. Why should any kid listen to y'all?The black community has failed it's youth repeatedly, and the youth grows increasingly resentful about it, and nothing will change as long as all the fingers are pointed at the youth that inherited the fukkery of their parents
But finding these things is work these nikkas don't want to do
They want their art the same way everyone else does. Fed to them through an entity. They just act like they're above the people that are upfront about it
Sleepy Floyd
Superstar
Nobody buys music anymore, we all stream it for free. And really it's only cacs and Mexicans who attend the tour shows.
Who buys whole albums these days?
Who buys whole albums these days?
brooklyngohard
All Star
It’s honestly not talked about enough how mac miller sampling lord finesse and taking an L in the lawsuit changed the landscape of sampling