Where do you see Mainstream music in the 2020s?

[Wild self]

So what becomes of hip hop? All the rappers are gonna rap over those repetitive Afro Beats? I'm in these afro/caribbean spots and they play the same ish over and over again. If afro beats takes over, I hope they become creative. I'm not trying to hear rappers rappin over that stuff in the club. That ain't twerkin music....

You got rappers like Casanova rapping on Afro Beats and Tory Lanez on that heavy.

Trap music in many parts of NY is used as a last resort to hype up parties. You ain't gonna hear no trap beats for 4-5 consecutive hours like in the last 15 years in the clubs.

 

[Black Steph Curry]

nikkas sayin afro beats

 

[Biscayne]

I meant the death of Rock led to all the weirdos flocking to hip hop.

Rock music being dead in mainstream has brought all these vultures and weirdo Negroes into this shiit.

Pretty much. Rap became the "new rock" so to speak. Tyler The Creator types who would've been punk rock-type Black kids. Also trap music and mosh-pit type songs like Mo Bamba is the closest thing to rock in the mainstream. As far as the "spirit" of rock. I could see that stuff getting even bigger in the 2020's. Hell, artists like Waka really contributed to that. Hyper Intense trap.

 

[Barnett114]

I think about this a lot and I honestly don't know.
I thought trap would have died out by now but that production style is still dominant
I can see Afrobeats getting bigger but I mostly hear the same 2 songs being played still

Trap hasn't died because it's cookie cutter and easy to mass produce.

 

[Cave Savage]

where do you live?

man london and new york spoiled me, they definitely not giving yall the good shyt

I live in New York and the radio stations here just play Fall and Joanna, which is also what I heard when I went to this mostly AA and Caribbean spot in Brooklyn (plus Pana). I'm sure there are better spots for that, but those seem to be the 3 songs that have hit the mainstream so far.

 

[Biscayne]

You got rappers like Casanova rapping on Afro Beats and Tory Lanez on that heavy.

Trap music in many parts of NY is used as a last resort to hype up parties. You ain't gonna hear no trap beats for 4-5 consecutive hours like in the last 15 years in the clubs.

That's gonna be hella regional. NY has the demographics for that. NY, Miami, Boston. The other cities and states tho? At most I see Afro Beats being like how Reggaetone was. DJ's will give the very most popular Afro Beat artists a 10-15min set, then it's back to trap, RnB, hip-hop.

 

[Cave Savage]

Trap hasn't died because it's cookie cutter and easy to mass produce.

True. I'm disappointed that these new Gen Z rappers are using it heavily.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

I live in New York and the radio stations here just play Fall and Joanna, which is also what I heard when I went to this mostly AA and Caribbean spot in Brooklyn (plus Pana)

nah I mean at home grown/ratchet house parties where you need to know the people throwing it, none of that radio top 40 nonsense. I got shyt back in 2011 that would blow this new stuff out the water. I bet they didn't play any of burna boys new tracks like i posted above

 

[Wild self]

That's gonna be hella regional. NY has the demographics for that. NY, Miami, Boston. The other cities and states tho? At most I see Afro Beats being like how Reggaetone was. DJ's will give the very most popular Afro Beat artists a 10-15min set, then it's back to trap, RnB, hip-hop.

Its growing in DC spots as well. Its only getting bigger as time goes on.

 

[Biscayne]

I live in New York and the radio stations here just play Fall and Joanna, which is also what I heard when I went to this mostly AA and Caribbean spot in Brooklyn (plus Pana)

Literally those are the only two Afro Beats songs I hear being played outside of Afro/Caribbean spots. DJ does his little Joana/Fall 1-2 punch, and then maybe goes on to doing some dancehall music and then back to traditional American music. Ppl aren't tryna dance to Afro Beats like that. They wanna hear their popular two or three songs. Beyond that, DJ has to bring the crowd back.

 

[Wild self]

True. I'm disappointed that these new Gen Z rappers are using it heavily.

Gen Z lacks discipline and just want fast money. They don't care about songs getting burn 10 years from now.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

That's gonna be hella regional. NY has the demographics for that. NY, Miami, Boston. The other cities and states tho? At most I see Afro Beats being like how Reggaetone was. DJ's will give the very most popular Afro Beat artists a 10-15min set, then it's back to trap, RnB, hip-hop.

naah i know in boston the tier goes dancehall then hip-hop then afrobeats. no one on our side really plays hip-hopp like that except for the hype songs like fukk the club up or faneto

 

[Biscayne]

Its growing in DC spots as well. Its only getting bigger as time goes on.

I gotta see it to believe it. Those DC spots must be 50% African 50% ADOS. Even down here in NC, in the African/Caribbean spots they gotta throw in a little trap to cater to the non Africans/Caribbs. And even the Africans/Caribs get hype off the American music being played in their own spaces.

 

[Biscayne]

naah i know in boston the tier goes dancehall then hip-hop then afrobeats. no one on our side really plays hip-hopp like that except for the hype songs like fukk the club up or faneto

Down in NC it's trap/hip hop, then RnB, then Go-Go(DC transplants), then dancehall, then Afrobeats.

 

[Cave Savage]

Literally those are the only two Afro Beats songs I hear being played outside of Afro/Caribbean spots. DJ does his little Joana/Fall 1-2 punch, and then maybe goes on to doing some dancehall music and then back to traditional American music. Ppl aren't tryna dance to Afro Beats like that. They wanna hear their popular two or three songs. Beyond that, DJ has to bring the crowd back.

And neither of those songs are new. That's been the same 1-2 punch for a while now

Gen Z lacks discipline and just want fast money. They don't care about songs getting burn 10 years from now.

Those songs probably won't even get burn in 1 year. Most of them are very disposable