"Rap is DONE. Aint no more money in rap. Only .1% gettin money. The Drake's....YBs...." - Akademiks

[DaHNIC82]

Funny thing is alot of veterans and older demographic been trying to tell muthafukkas for 15 years that the wrong people are in charge, the wrong people are
representing and everyone was met with "You're old" "You're bitter" "You aint getting no p*ssy if you don't like ______________Corny commercial artist" We let too many corny muthafukkas in here and let it rock and this is the results
Now you have these same corny nikkas(Akademiks) included crying about "HIP HOP IS DEAD"

 

[O.Red]

 

[IIVI]

Man, I’ve heard all types of “catchy” shyt the last few years that sounds sonically good.

Nonetheless, it’s simply all stale.

Sonically the best I’ve heard over the last year was Lady Gaga’s new album and although it ran the charts, it simply wasn’t peak celebrity Gaga and mayhem.

Sabrina Carpenter is a household name but she ain’t shutting down traffic like she would had this been 2009.

Then you have people being constant “haters”, calling everything trash, taking a lot of excitement of things, etc.

Not to mention all the usual stunts and little “influencing” the labels and businesses do are all basically common knowledge now.

The “experience” in general for entertainment ain’t what it used to be. Rap isn’t immune to it.

Entertainment Industry hasn’t had a top-to-bottom hit that’ll stand the test of time going back to Top Gun: Maverick when everybody was on the same page before that release, with insane anticipation and lived up to the hype.

 

[frush11]

When these female rappers and drill rappers music only appeal to just the broke streets and no one can make cross over hits like a Drake or Kendrick on a large scale consistently thats the problem

Your biggest consumers the white and Hispanic dollars isn’t buying any of these Lotto , ice spice, nba young boy records

The last part, I actually think is a good and necessary thing.

 

[LexDiamonds]

People have damn near every piece of music released on DSPs available at their finger tips. You're not only in competition with what's current, but the past as well and music is way over-saturated.

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The only people generating money are the established super-stars. Labels won't invest in anything that's not guaranteed, they are cool with just licensing. It's beyond horrible to be a young artist today.

 

[concise]

 

[FreshAIG]

I listen to new albums here and there but it's been a long long time since I've been interested in any new acts. I don't want to hear new albums from rappers I listened to in the 90s either.

We should have a new breath of fresh rappers with different styles and we don't. Even the few new-ish rappers that I can tolerate, I like their music on a curve. It's just better than everything else right now, but it's not actually that good.

 

[Ironman]

The amount of albums that dropped in October FOHMiss me with that chart nonsense Hip Hop been returning to the underground and I'm loving it

 

[hex]

Who gives a f*ck?

Rap was around for a long while before we had chart data and/or sites tracking how much money they had.

This will only affect the stans that track sales/artist money because they have a weird parasocial relationship with these rappers.

Fred.

 

[Black_Jesus]

It can die

 

[Redwing80]

I listen to new albums here and there but it's been a long long time since I've been interested in any new acts. I don't want to hear new albums from rappers I listened to in the 90s either.

We should have a new breath of fresh rappers with different styles and we don't. Even the few new-ish rappers that I can tolerate, I like their music on a curve. It's just better than everything else right now, but it's not actually that good.

The recent artists don't do anything outside of what they know too.

Even NY drill has been so repetitive it's virtually dead now

 

[Artfull Dodger]

This board has this hilariously false notion that folks are now going to finally get back to break-dancing on cardboard and young rappers will now only spit over RZA and Havoc's production moving forward

 

[jadillac]

Ive been peeped the plot. It seems like labels stopped putting money into rap a minute ago and now we are seeing the affects of it.


How do you think this holds up for the future of the genre?


My question too is why did labels stop supporting it? Its cause and effect and honestly I think labels didnt like how popular rap became and there was a silent effort to mitigate it.


For like the past 10 years only 2 to 3 people can sell over 100k first week. With no new high selling rap stars on the horizon. fukk is going on?

Lol

Dudes been rapping about jewelry, drug selling, cars, money and shooting other nikkas for 35+ years.

How much more can you rap about those things?

Rap about something non-destructive? Yeah, labels dont want to hear that.

They'd rather let it die where it is.

 

[hex]

Lol

Dudes been rapping about jewelry, drug selling, cars, money and shooting other nikkas for 35+ years.

How much more can you rap about those things?

Rap about something non-destructive? Yeah, labels dont want to hear that.

They'd rather let it die where it is.

New De La album otw.

Fred.