considering none of them can rap anyway it might be a blessing in disguise
Songs are getting shorter now.
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Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
Shorter songs are the trend now. Labels won't even put songs out if they don't get any traction on Tik Tok.
Artists have been forced to adjust. Look at what people like Ariana Grande and Charlie Puth were doing in 2018. Now, look at what they did on their last albums. The songs don't even sound finished. Just a bunch of interludes and demos.
Artists have been forced to adjust. Look at what people like Ariana Grande and Charlie Puth were doing in 2018. Now, look at what they did on their last albums. The songs don't even sound finished. Just a bunch of interludes and demos.
. Less damage to our ear drums.
avon barksdale
i want my corners
Michael Jackson would be piss
no thats kells
It's been like that for a while now. I remember 69 had madd hit songs that was barely over 2 minutes...and most of them was hook, verse, hook, done (and a little skit was in there somewhere too, lol, smh).
Metal Face
Superstar
Yeah we need 5 minutes of bars from Ice Spice 
Some of those songs be even shorter. Because for some weird reason these cats love to repeat what they said a lot
I be on the block
Ugh
I be on the block
Ugh
I be on the block
Ugh
Selling all the rock
Yeah
Selling all the rock
Yeah
Looking out 4 cops
Shooting at my ops
Hook
Song ends
I be on the block
Ugh
I be on the block
Ugh
I be on the block
Ugh
Selling all the rock
Yeah
Selling all the rock
Yeah
Looking out 4 cops
Shooting at my ops
Hook
Song ends
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Black Miller
All Star
yeah i been noticing this heavy- part of it is attention span, adjusting for streams playback and artists not being creative enough. but then i look at back older albums, some of them were longer and just a lot of songs not fully interesting. i think making a short concise well thought out album is the move. 10-12 songs, well written, somewhere from 30-45 minutes- is not bad.
a lot of albums like that i walk or workout to them. as long as its quality its all good. that game album and donda got too many joints i gotta be in the mindset to play them. i ran that donda and it was just too long and i seen the tracklist for game- that crazy. i still aint listened to game yet, i will eventually though.
these past few albums from nas, cole etc been good time limits to me. 30-40 mins enough to rock out and run it back if you want, and still get quality from it
a lot of albums like that i walk or workout to them. as long as its quality its all good. that game album and donda got too many joints i gotta be in the mindset to play them. i ran that donda and it was just too long and i seen the tracklist for game- that crazy. i still aint listened to game yet, i will eventually though.
these past few albums from nas, cole etc been good time limits to me. 30-40 mins enough to rock out and run it back if you want, and still get quality from it
Alexander Wiggin
All Star
Song are shorter and now start directly by the hook. They got to grab the listener from the start. I miss the times when you actually was waiting for the lady in the hook on rap songs
BECAUSE LYRICS WERE STILL
ELEMENTARY IN THOSE DAYS...
ITS CALLED EVOLUTION...
THE FACT THAT WE'RE REVERTING
BACK TO THAT AKA DEVOLVING
SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT THE STATE
OF THIS GENERATION.
Smart dumb oldheads sounding just like your parents and grandparents
BECAUSE LYRICS WERE STILL
ELEMENTARY IN THOSE DAYS...
ITS CALLED EVOLUTION...
THE FACT THAT WE'RE REVERTING
BACK TO THAT AKA DEVOLVING
SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT THE STATE
OF THIS GENERATION.
Song length has usually always been correlated with technology
The reason why songs used to be 3-4 minutes in the first place was because that's all how much could fit in a vinyl. And radios preferred that length so they could play it.
Nowadays, streaming and tiktok is the wave, so labels followed suit.
Nikkas was frontin’ when Jigga dropped his God did verse as if a breh can’t get his bars off no mo? Smh
Smart dumb oldheads sounding just like your parents and grandparents
Song length has usually always been correlated with technology
The reason why songs used to be 3-4 minutes in the first place was because that's all how much could fit in a vinyl. And radios preferred that length so they could play it.
Nowadays, streaming and tiktok is the wave, so labels followed suit.
It's not my fault the younger generation of horrorcore rappers can't make long songs like ICP or Esham did back in the good old days
