They killed the most skilled rapper in the group.Its been fukk rap anyway since they killed my nikka Takeoff
"Rap is DONE. Aint no more money in rap. Only .1% gettin money. The Drake's....YBs...." - Akademiks
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The newer generation shouldn't have come out with this microwave diaper juice they've been coming out with.
And that's the problem in this instance. The youth have no money and are either dead or in jail or got ongoing litigation.Some of you have already said it but it’s crazy. How some of the bruhs that had next are either dead or in jail. I’m all for the OGs continuing to drop projects. But it’s the youth the pushes the genre forwards.
Right. I remember when Joe retired in 2016, I was at the show at BB KIngs in NYC. Joe saw the ending coming. He could tour, he could make albums, but he couldn't support himself.
I knew the rap wouldn't work, but the podcast, I was like what the fukk is he doing? But Joe has always been ahead of the game when it comes to technology and trends. He was one of the first Youtube/influencer wannabes that I ever knew of around 2007.
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The weird thing is that they all had access to the same information Joe did, so why they clowned him is beyond me and it's not like he was the only one saying it too.
They all ran with his blueprint. Thank Goodness he was able to profit off being one of the founding fathers of the wave.
I was a Joe Budden fan around 2001, when old school tracks like Calm Down were out. He was ahead of his time then too. A lot of guys don't even know the history, they only know Joe as a podcaster or Pump It Up, but he had a dope career, up until like 2010/2011. But he wasn't making real money from rap since about 2003. He had to really tour and sell mixtapes and grind it out.
I was just telling some dude at a party that I was listening to Joe since he rapped with Fab and Cain. Joe had his own talents and skills, but he also got really lucky in some ways. He deserves his success.
Joe always been kind of a nerdy/emo rapper, but some of the more 'street' dudes doing podcasts and youtube channels, all this gay ass gossip shyt. It's a different world.
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By what metrics is JBP getting stale? is that how you feel or do you have analytics to back your claim up?
Let's hope they do something new the issue with a large majority of content creator is the laziness and poor imitations of what is already successful.
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Them nikkas wouldn’t have ran anything ..They’re being overhyped post death.
If YB,Uzi,Carti,Tyler or Trav didn’t carry the torch and supplant Kendrick or Drake no way in hell any of those guys would’ve did it .
Hell all of em would be beneath Tyler and Trav
I partially think thats becuase many rappers are just a dime a dozen, even at a high level. She sounds like several high pitched "fukk these nikkas, coochie power" girls that can switch up vulgarity with sometimes deep but morally questionable music.
I feel like social media played a big part in killing the allure that mainstream rappers had when it comes to their image. Rap already has to compete with way more forms of entertainment than it did 30 years ago. And the mind can only take in so much stimuli before it gets overwhelmed. Which means it's too easy for mfs to turn into clowns trying to get more eyes on them. Harder/bigger risk for labels to spend resources curating someone's persona knowing that shyt can be exposed real quick in a world full of cameras so they say fukk it and chase virality. Which encourages more clown behavior. Vicious circle.
Tbh entertainment in general has become disposable/commoditized. Too many options and they're all too easily accessible. And since we live in an era where info is easy to come by we're able to peek behind the curtain to see how industry politics go and the end result is mass cynicism.
Tbh entertainment in general has become disposable/commoditized. Too many options and they're all too easily accessible. And since we live in an era where info is easy to come by we're able to peek behind the curtain to see how industry politics go and the end result is mass cynicism.
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with the aid of the Funk...
I think the explosion of creativity we saw in the post WWII era (1946-now) is pretty much at an end. A lot of different factors came together to make peak jazz, soul music, funk and hip-hop and I'm just not seeing it in this internet saturated era. Music programs have been gutted and big cities are becoming increasingly homogenized. I don't see a "new" music genre coming from black folks or whites. Country been around for damn near a century. The latest Doja Cat album is basically 80's synth funk/Minneapolis sound pastiche so why can't be go back to making boogie music or make techno relevant again or maybe neo-neo-soul. Most new music going forward will be a revival of some old style or a blend of different old genres.
True but now she is one of the biggest female rappers in the country. All thanks to TDE and their major label backing.
Which goes to show the power of labels, honestly the future of the genre is prolly going to be in these labels like TDE/QC/CMG etc.
To be the pipe line between the streets and the majors, without TDE shorty would jus be another female tumblr rapper if that.
