Will There Ever Be Another Rap Megastar??? (GREAT READ)

[Rominati]

Wiz Khalifa was the closest one besides Drake. For some odd reason he jus dropped the ball when he got signed


His underground buzz was bigger than Drake's at the time. He was really on the run to becoming the next Big Rap Superstar, kids all around the US was jocking his swag.

 

[Street Knowledge]

His name is drake

 

[Rebel Soldier]

Drake.

 

[sporticus]

Not a gangster rapper, no. There are too many cell phones with cameras and closed circuit TV's to ever believe that a rapper has time to be a criminal kingpin and a musician at the same time.

Shyt on Drake if you want, but being himself is getting him a ton of bread while nerds insult him on message boards.

 

[AB Ziggy]

Wiz Khalifa was the closest one besides Drake. For some odd reason he jus dropped the ball when he got signed


His underground buzz was bigger than Drake's at the time. He was really on the run to becoming the next Big Rap Superstar, kids all around the US was jocking his swag.

nikkas was overplaying and making millions of remixes of Black and Yellow back then. Lol

 

[mbewane]

Call me an old head or a hater, but no way is Drake at the Jay/Big/PAc/Em/Kanye/50 level (and I a 50 hater too). Superstardom is much more than numbers, he doesn't have that "larger-than-life" persona, I don't see him bringing something different to the table and he's doens't seem to be the "guy in charge".

EDIT: and to answer the question, I doubt it, mainly because it seems that these new cats, while talented, don't go through all that struggle far from the cameras that other went through: they're public personnas by the time they're 19, and I just have this feeling that you need some time to develop thru struggle and in anonymity in order to really "become" yourself, instead of becoming what "fits" the market. Seriously, how many original dudes do we have out there, where are the ODBs, the Bustas, the Redmans, hell even the Kanyes and shyt who have a very particular personna (love or hate it). In some way I feel it's like the NBA, kids are being pushed under the spotlight and their development is trumped, because they conform to that spotlight instead of having the spotlight adapt to them (which is what TRUE superstares do

 

[Ashtrey]

Wiz Khalifa was the closest one besides Drake. For some odd reason he jus dropped the ball when he got signed


His underground buzz was bigger than Drake's at the time. He was really on the run to becoming the next Big Rap Superstar, kids all around the US was jocking his swag.

word i thought wiz was gonna be huge especially after black n yellow hit #1 on billboard.. but then that album dropped

 

[Rominati]

One could argue that Lil Wayne was raps last REAL superstar, one could also say that Waynes run ended in 09. Which means its only been about 3 years since there was a complete ultimate package artist.


Im pretty sure somebody gon blow up either this year or next. My bets is that this nikka is from NY. I feel ASAP Rocky is gon continue to get bigger, while other NY underground artists begin to pick up steam this year.

 

[Wild self]

Kanye was the last one.

It would be cool to see drake pull it off but I feel like his attachment to YMCMB hurts him a tad and I don't know how long his content would last unless he can switch up his content.

I feel like an r&b superstar male or female will emerge before a rap artist.

If you think about it were in the last leg of the last generation with the beyonce and ushers .

No one has even came close to being a threat.

The last big pop stars in general was lady gaga.

Being a superstar is so much more then just numbers and how many albums you dropped it's gotta be in your character in your performances in your interviews etc....



Social networking has def hindered that experience I feel like some artist over saturate themselves with too many features too many tweets etc.

I remember when artist would drop am album sometimes 2-5 years in between now nikkas drop albums every year and between that drop mixtapes.

That what happens when you release image based music over and over again: people stop giving a fukk about you. Look at all them Pop stars back in the late 90s and early 00s: Christina, Britney, N'SYNC, Backstreet Boys, Jessica Simpson, etc. They filled up the TRL stations and ran the countdowns and record sales down to the ground. As time went on, there were less superstars, and eventually in 2008, they had to cancel TRL cause of the lack of quantity of pop stars (which coincided with the great recession).

The Rap star situation is nearly the same. All the superstar rappers like Jay, Eminem, Snoop, 50, DMX, were running shyt, until the record sales plummeted. Now, there are no real threats to those rap superstars left cause Rap is no longer the #1 music to listen to, which is overtaken by Euro Techno music. Like you said, the oversaturation of mixtapes and the super-availability of these rappers made fans take them for granted.

 

[Canada Goose]

Kanye was the last one.

It would be cool to see drake pull it off but I feel like his attachment to YMCMB hurts him a tad and I don't know how long his content would last unless he can switch up his content.

I feel like an r&b superstar male or female will emerge before a rap artist.

If you think about it were in the last leg of the last generation with the beyonce and ushers .

No one has even came close to being a threat.

The last big pop stars in general was lady gaga.

Being a superstar is so much more then just numbers and how many albums you dropped it's gotta be in your character in your performances in your interviews etc....



Social networking has def hindered that experience I feel like some artist over saturate themselves with too many features too many tweets etc.

I remember when artist would drop am album sometimes 2-5 years in between now nikkas drop albums every year and between that drop mixtapes.

Rhianna took Beyonce's place IMO, Chris Brown could have taken Usher place if dude didn't have so much drama, even with all his issues he still gets spins on pop stations, "International love", "Beautiful people" and some other songs I can't think of right now. If that fight with Rhi never happened he would have already done it IMO.

Trey Songz or Miguel could do it, keep it mind Trey hasn't dipped into making pop music yet...

 

[Wild self]

Not a gangster rapper, no. There are too many cell phones with cameras and closed circuit TV's to ever believe that a rapper has time to be a criminal kingpin and a musician at the same time.

Shyt on Drake if you want, but being himself is getting him a ton of bread while nerds insult him on message boards.

lol @ a gangsta rapper under 35 these days. This technology based world, its too hard to pull off. Drake catches more flack for his excessive simping on girls than anything. Wale, if anything, catches heat for being "corny" when he openly admits that he isn't about that life. Some of these old ass posters think that you gotta be some super OG thug to get respect from them and "the streets." Many rap fans are like most (indecisive) women: They don't know what they really want.

 

[Big Boss]

kendrick lamar?

 

[Ziggiy]

I think what really needs to happen is that the Superstar term needs to be re-defined. We live in an era now where it's almost IMPOSSIBLE for an artist to be "bigger than life" or seem "untouchable". A persons entire background can be dug up in a matter of three or four Internet clicks. Couple that with 24/7 Media scrutiny by bloggers, tabloids, trashy sites like Media-takeout, plus Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have de-mystified the celebrity. Drake may not SEEM larger than life because we all know his story, his background, pretty much his entire life, but he's still managing to be one of the FEW platinum ARTISTS of ANY GENRE in the industry. He sells out tours internationally, has endorsements, his album releases are regarded as tent-pole (to use the movie term) events. He's banging out the finest women, he's living in mansions that are certainly larger than my life. What is that if not the definition of a SUPERSTAR? Also I'd say Kendrick Lamar has that persona as well. He's talented, people are obviously drawn to his style of music and the way he portrays himself. His album is universally praised and he'll be platinum of his DEBUT album in probably less than 3 months. Is that not the beginnings of Superstar qualities?

 

[hex]

at people saying Nicki Minaj. It's how people toss her name into the discussion when her last album wasn't even geared towards rap fans. The media was calling her "the next Lady Gaga", that should be a big ass indication of what kinda lane she tried to be in.

Fred.

 

[Rominati]

I feel Kendrick Lamar praise is more hype based than actual superstar potential. Ive been a fan of this kid for years. And even I can tell you that Section 80 is better than GKMC. However that Interscope machine got the general public gassed.

Also its like people want to baby him and not accept reality. Kendrick Lamar dont got that personality, and he is weak on them features. School Boy Q got a better chance of being a overall star.


The Peter Rosenbergs of the world are fukking the rap game up. When a artist tries to branch and step outside the walls of hip hop, we attack them, and beat them back into the box. Look at Nicki Minaj.


Im pretty sure if Peter Rosenberg was as popular now, as back then when Kanye was releasing Graduation n going thru that 808 stage. He would of shytted on Kanye for releasing singles like Stronger, Love Lockdown etc.


In order for hip hop to really move on, hip hop fans need to be open to change.


Not every rapper is gonna be superlyrical like Rakim or Nas, or thugged out like DMX or 50, let that shyt go.