There are no Gen Z rap super stars

[BmoreGorilla]

Look at how old hip hop is. These kids are so far removed from the hip hop culture many of older heads grew up on. It was inevitable that this would happen and it’s not necessarily a bad thing it’s just natural progression. Just look at 90s R&B. That shyt sounded nothing like the R&B of the 60s and 70s.

A lot of these kids love R&B from the 90s and 2000s. It’s their generation’s oldies but goodies


Im just glad I came up in the era I did and many of those rappers are still putting out quality music geared for people my age

 

[concise]

To address the topic:

The music industry is struggling and changing fast. Streaming has pretty much killed the way things used to be. I think these labels wish they could go back to selling physical copies like CDs and vinyl, because they made more money and people could hold something in their hands.

They’re probably spending a lot of money trying to figure out how to bring back physical sales in some way. But until they can sell a physical album for around $20 and people are willing to pay that, it’s unlikely things will go back to how they used to be. The industry has changed a lot, and it’ll take time and new ideas to get close to what it used to be.

Yeah, this isn't just a rap thing. There aren't as many superstars as there used to be in music. Hollywood has the same problem also.

 

[Dzali OG]

Yak is goat

 

[Dzali OG]

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.

I heard him for the first time this past week. He was tridash.

 

[Dad]

NLE Choppa?
Carti?

 

[Ryze]

Plaqueboymax recently dropped his tape

Y'know it's crazy cause he's a producer, I thought he would have came harder


DDG dropped this month as well. Brehs these days might rather be content creators n streamers, and then be rappers on the side.

 

[Dzali OG]

Also, until artists stop allowing their music to be streamed, they're not making money like they should. More money in being a personality than a rapper.

 

[LunaticVillage415]

1997 is the start of Gen Z, not 2000. That being said, the Gen Z rap icons are NBA Youngboy and Sexxy Red. Youngboy is like YN Jesus. Sexxy Red is like the Virgin Mary of modern thotted out Gen Z girls. I would say Pooh Shiesty gets an honorable mention just by the fact that YN’s base their entire uniform on his 2021 dress code and act like crashouts like him too. Who knows if he can restore his status after being locked up for years or if he’s another Bobby Shmurda.

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

Yeah, this isn't just a rap thing. There aren't as many superstars as there used to be in music. Hollywood has the same problem also.

This is so true. I was just telling my mom, i'm tired of looking at these men who hit the wall. How many times we gotta see Tom cruise's old ass in an action movie?

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

XXX would have definitely blown up BUT by 2025 he would have crashed out and either OD'd from the money and drugs that come with being that guy or got into some kind of legal trouble. He'd be sitting right next to Pooh rn prolly

 

[Cave Savage]

The millenial artists blew up during mainstream hip hop's peak. Even if Kendrick (for example) never has another hit, he could still do stadium tours off his 2010s material.

Roddy Ricch could have been that guy though

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

Or Chicago House/Detroit Techno

you gotta water down Chicago House and Detroit Techno and put vocals on it if you want it to have mainstream appeal

We better off bringing back 90's/2000's style pop r&b. Erika de Casier is from Europe and she dropped one of the best albums of the year inspired by trip-hop and 2000's r&b

 

[audemarzz]

Zeddy will has potential but he's also a steamer turned music artist

 

[JadeB]

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

I'm the same age as X and I was fukking with him heavy. He was on the road to superstardom.

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

Look at how old hip hop is. These kids are so far removed from the hip hop culture many of older heads grew up on. It was inevitable that this would happen and it’s not necessarily a bad thing it’s just natural progression. Just look at 90s R&B. That shyt sounded nothing like the R&B of the 60s and 70s.

A lot of these kids love R&B from the 90s and 2000s. It’s their generation’s oldies but goodies


Im just glad I came up in the era I did and many of those rappers are still putting out quality music geared for people my age

I almost teared up a few days ago after leaving Walmart because a car of teens were bumpin “Letter to the President” and getting hyphy in the parking lot.

I already knew they have some triple OGs in their lives.