There are no Gen Z rap super stars

[JadeB]

Superstars and monoculture in general is dead too so that has something to do with it

 

[O.T.I.S.]

I will say, I think the gen z actors might actually be worth watching to see what happens in the arts. Some good young actors out there that still love the art but they’re trying to get that out the paint too with AI.


But just like theater, I don’t think actual acting is going anywhere.


No one cares if people try to Disney Pixar wack movies

 

[NinoBrown]

I just noticed all the big Rap stars are kissing 30 (not a bad thing I wish them a long life)

But why hasn’t Gen Z been able to produce any rap stars that can toe the line? I can’t think of a single rapper in that generation that’s as big as someone like Drake, Kendrick, or Travis Scott. Maybe pop smoke (rip) if he didn’t die? central cee? NBA youngboy? Ice spice? But all these cats were still born before 2000. Ain’t a person born after 2000 That’s blown up.

I think that speaks volumes tbh, might be a huge shift coming

Cause they aren't very intelligent rappers compared to the past...

 

[Kenny West]

Even though people say X and Juice there are no guarantees. Lil Uzi had the same hype and trajectory back then, dude is ice cold present day

 

[Kenny West]

Posters like this is why the coli shyt on anime brehs

You were better off not posting this at all if you had no clue. xxx was him

He's not all the way wrong. X was a SoundCloud rapper but his ceiling was blog rap superstar tbh. Dude was never gonna be fully mainstream. Grown folks not vibing to that druggy emo crashout music at the club, at least Juice Wrld could tone it down with some melodic chill shyt. Besides X would have gotten cancelled eventually.

His debut album was cheeks too

 

[ItsPeople]

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.

 

[horizon]

Youngboy is gen Z

 

[horizon]

The women are doing much better in terms of name and production. I tend to listen to more female rap than male when it comes to the new gen

To be a superstar you have to take sales into account

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Because they suck.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

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

R&B singers from the 90s grew up with old R&B and still honed their talent like the old singers

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Central Cee aint even Black is he

 

[IIVI]

It’s honestly simply gotten stale, the whole genre.

Last biggest super star household name was Travis Scott.

Everyone else after that hasn’t got close. Not Carti, maybe Uzi but Tecca and all these other clones aren’t moving the needle like that anymore. They all use the same reverb, autotune, etc. vocal chain.

Then in addition to everything Future is still in a tier by himself.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

He's not all the way wrong. X was a SoundCloud rapper but his ceiling was blog rap superstar tbh. Dude was never gonna be fully mainstream. Grown folks not vibing to that druggy emo crashout music at the club, at least Juice Wrld could tone it down with some melodic chill shyt. Besides X would have gotten cancelled eventually.

His debut album was cheeks too

Didn't XXX have an assault case over his head for beating his girlfriend or something before he got killed? That would've definitely hurt how far he could've advanced

 

[IIVI]

Female rappers are the biggest Hip-Hop stars today.

 

[Uitomy]

I just don't think that shyt matters anymore, you can find your favorite musician on any platform anywhere at any time. I listen to this band called Wild nothing a lot and I found them shazaming in a target (in fact half the new music I listen to is cause I Shazammed the shyt in some random place) the stars on gen z are now on a more individual/community basis


Take Lucki for example, he's big as fukk, huge, million streams type of artist, but you'll never hear him on the radio, that's pretty much how most the big gen z rappers operate, like it's so many of them with big followings the industry actually can't source all of them anymore that's why they rely on tik Tok and shyt to find and develop artists.