What does the Rap game need to get back on track?

[Rominati]

Also think we need to start embracing the new jacks


Mos of ya favorite rappers are now in their late 30's man , they spit tha shyt that made you fall in love with em in their early to late 20s. Its time to start looking elsewhere fellas lol

 

[kingdizzy01]

get these cac hipster blogger culture vultures out, lame ass cookie cutter rappers with their bullshyt gimmicks, puttin p*ssy on a pedestal, and wierdo gay shyt the fukk out of hip hop

 

[rapbeats]

So all these rappers should just make music you like?

They should ignore the people who buy their singles, albums and go to their shows.

They should ignore the music that gets the club swaying.

They should just make music that you like so you can deem it "classic" or unique

dumb dumb, the music i like was the best selling music of all time. what part of that dont you understand?

you wanna get money? rap like i tell you to rap
you wanna have a long career in this game and never go broke, be able to do shows in your 40's, Rap like i tell you to rap.

you wanna remain at minimum luke warm as a producer for the duration? make beats like i say make beats.

notice i didnt say stop making hot beats, hot music, i didnt say stop making songs that people will dance to , work out too, get hyped on, etc.

i said learn how to put some more substance even into those songs. with less generic beats that you just heard last week.

the youngins now, dispose of music so quickly because the music doesnt deserve your time of day. and you know it. its hot on friday, wack on tuesday, on to the next hot hit that sounds similar. wash rinse and repeat.. this is not the way you rock if you wanna make big money in the rap game. this is not how you do it if you want to stay relevant for more then 3 years.What happened to Young Jock.? WHO? .... case closed.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Less fans pretending to be columnist for music magazines.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Mainstream needs to prioritize technical depth + creativity over everything

Avg rapper is just not good, these nikkas cant rap, and a lot of their shyt is just rehashed

A lot of what is broken about rap cant be fixed though. It is what it is

 

[Awesome Wells]

Talent.

Let's start there..

 

[SunZoo]

Rap game is fine.

Sales are less inflated, in the next 5-10 years more people will be rapping as a hobby than a hustle, once the big/easy money dries up completely, and the listeners have even more control over what they do and don't hear, people will either be rapping because their heart is in it or they will probably be doing something else.

That's all that we need to get back on track...the love of the craft, however you express that, be in it for that from the jump. Even with artists like jay "being a hustla not a rapper" you can still understand that you don't get that good at rapping without diving all the way into, you gotta be obsessed with rhyming to do it at that level no matter what your "day job" is, a lot of these nikkas outchea are half ass, half-the time artists because they see it can be lucrative, they not really in it for the love and obsession of what they trying to eat off of.

Let these clowns destroy it all the way, it has to die to be reborn, in the meantime just relax, turn the radio and the tv off, listen to what you like or create your own shyt if it's your passion.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Listeners have no control over what they hear

shyt gets filtered just like it always has; the issue now is the filters are not using quality/originality/technical depth as criteria, for the most part.

Couple that with the sheer volume of music out now, shyt is doomed.

I agree though on the mainstream side a complete teardown + reset is prob the best way forward, if for nothing else to take the current gatekeepers out of commission.

 

[SunZoo]

Listeners have no control over what they hear

How so? Who in the fukk is sitting around listening to the radio like "damn i wish they would play ___ "

MTV doesn't even play music anymore...everybody has an ipod, everybody downloads music, even the music people pay for is shyt they can go by song by song rather than risk dropping a whole dub for an album with only 3 dope cuts on it.

The listener has more control over what they hear now more than ever. Mainstream is always gonna be what it is, it's gonna follow they youth for the most part, only way to combat that is bring the attention more toward the net, more toward live shows and tours where the people are.

 

[Niqqa You Gay]

LOL @ all these theories and suggestions. IT'S OVER. Hip-hop is not coming back to greatness

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

How so? Who in the fukk is sitting around listening to the radio like "damn i wish they would play ___ "

MTV doesn't even play music anymore...everybody has an ipod, everybody downloads music, even the music people pay for is shyt they can go by song by song rather than risk dropping a whole dub for an album with only 3 dope cuts on it.

The listener has more control over what they hear now more than ever. Mainstream is always gonna be what it is, it's gonna follow they youth for the most part, only way to combat that is bring the attention more toward the net, more toward live shows and tours where the people are.

Even online, certain artists are way easier to "find" than others. If you are looking for someone who isn't "hot" or doesn't fit into one of the neat little internet rap phenotypes you are SOL. Plus again there is simply so much music available, there literally isn't time for anyone to sort through it all. There is nothing like a "hip hop Pandora"- every platform for "finding" hip hop is severely limited either in the range of music it supports or the limitations in how it lets you search for music. The internet has made it great for people to find and follow artists they already know and like, but it is not good at sifting/sorting through talent IMO.

 

[theworldismine13]

LOL @ all these theories and suggestions. IT'S OVER. Hip-hop is not coming back to greatness

basically

 

[the cac mamba]

I think the rap game is in good shape at the moment.

 

[DaveyDave]

More lyricists...

More Diversity in subject matter...

Regions getting their own sound like how it was in the 90s...

Getting that regional sound back is the key IMO. It will never reach the sales/popularity peak we enjoyed in the late 90s/early 00s but I don't care about that anyway. There's too many NY cats making wanna be southern music and and so on. Warren G was signed to Def Jam but he didn't start making music like Onyx did he?

 

[CELL]

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