The real concern for hip hop...

[T.H.E. Goat]

Hip hop stars aren't made the same as they were back in the 90's. You have cats like MIKE, Mavi, Niontay, etc. who aren't widely known but are the underground cats who'll potentially be the new stars of tomorrow. Then, you have cats like Boldy James, Rome Streetz, etc. who aren't regarded as stars in the states, but outside of it they're highly regarded as the top dogs in the game. Basically, new stars aren't brought to us like back in the day, you have to find them and ride with them until they finally get their moment.

 

[hex]

matters for the genre bro, this is a hip hop website always has been. numbers mattered for the genre in 02 and in 95. they always will matter...this is the first year hip hop legit is not a top 2 or 3 genre in world in prolly 30-40 years

How could numbers matter in '95 when I just told you we had no way to track them?

I'm talking about us, as fans. Who sold what is some internet sh*t. It can't even be argued "well, I hope it sells so the artist can make more music" any more because anybody with a smart phone can record music and videos now.

There's zero incentive to care about numbers unless you're in the industry. One of the major issues of the last 15-20 years is fans acting like they're A&Rs.

Fred.

 

[Piff Perkins]

one hip hop artist has sold over 150K first week....two if you count the drake party album but that was an rnb album...the entire year???? yeah shyt is down bad

To be fair who has released albums? The big and medium names haven't been active. It really seems like the battle completely froze the genre commercially. Besides Kendrick and Drake nobody dropped, nobody had hits, etc. Basically we got two big albums from Future/Metro which sparked the beef and then nothing besides GNX and Drake/Party. That's it. Mainstream wise, not talking about the (great) underground albums that have come out.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

I’m glad I’ve been eating real good.