Playing jazz takes 10+ years of extreme dedication just to sound passable. The generation that decided to rap below the level of even the earliest days of the genre (the nursery rhyme days of the very early 80s) is pointed in the wrong direction for that.
There are no Gen Z rap super stars
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Tribal Outkast
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Tell people to stop killing these rappers
Nkrumah Was Right
Superstar
Or Chicago House/Detroit Techno
They three of them died. XXX , Juicewrld and POP Smoke
Playaz Eyez
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I forgot they are 27 and 26. They’ve done a very good job in their lane and you can tell they actually did learn from the previous erasHoly shyt for the longest time I thought these nikkas were my age or older, I’m just finding out they both born in ‘98 and ‘99
Low End Derrick
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The conditions today don’t allow superstars. Celebs are way too accessible nowadays.
2 Up 2 Down
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Too many want to sound and look the same. Most don't even sound like they put any thoughts into their lyrics
None are making the music required to be superstars.
These Kids aren't making a "Luther" or "Hotline Bling" etc, neither do I think they are interested in that.
if they fluke a hit its for the moment and it doesn't stick for long.
As long as they can eat and make a lil change off this shyt they are good, to most of the young Brehs/Girls this is just a hustle to them
If they could get it another way they would, a lot really just want to leverage their celeb off rap to do something else.
These Kids aren't making a "Luther" or "Hotline Bling" etc, neither do I think they are interested in that.
if they fluke a hit its for the moment and it doesn't stick for long.
As long as they can eat and make a lil change off this shyt they are good, to most of the young Brehs/Girls this is just a hustle to them
If they could get it another way they would, a lot really just want to leverage their celeb off rap to do something else.
O.T.I.S.
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Gotdamn if this isn’t an accurate analogyThey keep saying rap is a young man’s game. Lol this shyt about to be old head rock n roll status within the next generation
These nikkas suck… it’s that simple. There is no actual talent.
New bums even turning producing into some AI bullshyt.. lazy, no talent, now we gonna have some mid shyt.
But I mean… where else could the culture really go after that? Yall get any nikka thats different, or bringing a different style out the paint.
There’s no creativity… Bad Bunny is out here actually whipping these dudes asses…
But it don’t matter, rap was just a quick flip for a lot of these dudes. Now everyone want to be streamers. So there’s no nikkas out here with actual artistic talent.
InGodWeTrust
Tall & Handsome in ATL
Rap is a quick hustle for Gen Z. They all want the “cardi b” route.
Release one acclaimed album then finesse it into other things because they don’t love Hip Hop or rapping in the first place.
Cardi B has been coasting off an album released almost a DECADE ago
Release one acclaimed album then finesse it into other things because they don’t love Hip Hop or rapping in the first place.
Cardi B has been coasting off an album released almost a DECADE ago
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Fanservice
Bih call me senpai
Y’all gotta stop bringing up that xxx guy in these conversations. I’ve literally never heard any of his songs anywhere when he was alive. And he was only trending when he got beat up for talking shyt or when he abused his girlfriend.
Dude was a total crashout and nothing about him or his music had mainstream appeal. He would have been Lil Durk status at best, not a superstar.
Dude was a total crashout and nothing about him or his music had mainstream appeal. He would have been Lil Durk status at best, not a superstar.
All my lil cousins and their friends (high school at that time) were fukking with XXX and Juiceworld HEAVY before they died. I'm thinking others did too
Thurgood Thurston III
#LLNB #LLLB #E4R x 2 🖤🖤🖤🆚🌀🌀
These two are definitely the answers.
The fans of Gen Z artists would naturally be Gen Z also.
The problem with that is Gen Z goes through new music VERY fast.
Faster than an artist can put out more hits.
Every other day, a new song goes viral on Tik Tok...
Then a couple of weeks later, it's completely forgotten.
Current artists can't really get a foothold.
Also, a lot of the GenZ with superstar energy and charisma go into streaming instead.
