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

[Sad Bunny]

lowkey, mad youngbulls dressing like wiz khalifa.

these niccas even died their hair with that gold streak

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Obviously Drake..............unless you a Roc Marciano fan


Other mentions:

Future (He is already superstar status in ATL at least)

&

ASAP Rocky (Can go either way for him)

The most legitimate measure of old school stardom is album sales

There are only like 4 rappers still moving Ma$e units. Drake being the newest

OP got it right... dudes like ASAP and Future are popular... but they're not stars. In 5-10 years they will be in that "hey yall remember so and so" camp, while Jay will be claiming 50 is the new 23

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

You really can't compare the mid to late 90s and even the early 00s with this era right here. The music industry has collapsed and social media inflates and deflates artists within a few months time. Drake is a rap superstar in this era. Honestly, he shouldn't have survived but he did. Some of the legends from the "golden age" wouldn't be able to make it in this environment. You can't build legends and myths in the Twitter/Instagram age.

Hip hop isn't THE popular music anymore so I don't foresee another Drake for some time. It will happen again, eventually, but a megastar hitting once or twice a year is done.

There weren't that many mega stars back in the day either though were there?

Snoop
Biggie
Tupac
Biggie
Jay-Z
Mase
DMX
50 Cent

I can't think of anyone else who isn't debatable. Dudes like Nas are legends but not MSG superstars. Dudes like Ludacris were lite but didn't do like 5x platinum etc. You're def right though that the environment now is totally different. I think people are just less patient. If you don't come in the game with a "Best I Ever Had" or "I Dont Like" labels won't even look at you. Whereas back in the day artists were groomed by labels and to a degree fans.

 

[KillbertArenas]

Smh at the premise of this thread..

People thought Michael Jordan would be the last great player at one time...

 

[CASHAPP]

Nah, its funny, cuz I cant believe im about to be in this bytch defending Nicki fukking Minaj


But in her early days, female rap wise, Nicki was a well rounded MC. She was out here bodying nikkas on tracks, and she had concepts flow and all. To keep it a buck, even tho she sold the fukk out, Nicki is a Top 3 female MC of all time. Nicki wasnt jus sum air head bimbo who got on cuz she looks nice. She could actually spit. When she was really coming up, she had everybody, the nerds, the rosenbergs, the hoodboogers, the suburbs. Errybody. Her problem was that she switched the script too quick. N in hip hop, apparently you cant switch up ya shyt until ya 3rd album



Nicki Minaj - Warning - YouTube


Nicki Minaj- Itty Bitty Piggy [Hood Affairs] - YouTube


Monster - Nicki Minaj (Harajuku Barbie & Roman Zolanski) - YouTube

This is horrible man what are you doing....

 

[Whitty Hutton]

There weren't that many mega stars back in the day either though were there?

Snoop
Biggie
Tupac
Biggie
Jay-Z
Mase
DMX
50 Cent

I can't think of anyone else who isn't debatable. Dudes like Nas are legends but not MSG superstars. Dudes like Ludacris were lite but didn't do like 5x platinum etc. You're def right though that the environment now is totally different. I think people are just less patient. If you don't come in the game with a "Best I Ever Had" or "I Dont Like" labels won't even look at you. Whereas back in the day artists were groomed by labels and to a degree fans.

Wu-tang (specifically Method Man)
Fugees (specifically Lauryn Hill)
Ice Cube
LL Cool J
Fresh Prince/Will Smith

 

[Dzali OG]

Personally I don't see the next megastar in the sense most know the term as.

There takes a certain edge to a rapper in most cases and these new guys don't have it. Now there are stars....just no megastars.

Matter fact how many have we had in history?

Imo a megastar is someone who has a grip on all markets, cacs, the hood, and everyone in between. Though falling back MC Hammer didn't!

A megastar is someone being bumrushed with movie offers and all sorts fukkery.

 

[Jerz-2]

at the title saying "GREAT READ", I'm thinkin' it's a magazine article or some shyt, and it's this nikka's opinion.

Also, at the thinly-veiled attempt to give Drake shine in the guise of a legit discussion on "the next rap megastar".

Y'all nikkas is just lazy these days....

 

[mbewane]

I got ya'll just gimme a few years brehs

But really









The bolded is all correct.

@mbewane what you mean "make the spotlight adjust to you" ?

Breh, I don't really know how to put it TBH, it just seems that true stars have their own personnality and that they kind of "change the game" or "create their own lane"...an extreme example might be the Wu, who kind of created a whole 5%/kung-fu/soul-inspired/mafioso genre (and blending all of it together)...whne they came, they did not conform to the market (Rza and Gza tried before, and failed) but did their own thing, and the spotlight (market/"game") adapted to what they brought because it was THAT DOPE...but I don't see what Drake (and a lot of new rappers) "create" anything new...that's why I feel that whatever millions of cds they sell, they won't have a lasting mark on the culture

(Not saying this is a "true" theory, just how I feel about it...)

 

[aqualung]

Drake is already a megastar.

Justin Beiber has found huge success since 2009, so the rise of social media and the fall of music video aint dispositive.

--> aq out <--

 

[How Sway?]

drake might already be there but then again he could be irrelevant in 5 years so who knows.

I think Wiz or Kendrick might be the next real "megastar"

 

[Shadow King]

Breh, I don't really know how to put it TBH, it just seems that true stars have their own personnality and that they kind of "change the game" or "create their own lane"...an extreme example might be the Wu, who kind of created a whole 5%/kung-fu/soul-inspired/mafioso genre (and blending all of it together)...whne they came, they did not conform to the market (Rza and Gza tried before, and failed) but did their own thing, and the spotlight (market/"game") adapted to what they brought because it was THAT DOPE...but I don't see what Drake (and a lot of new rappers) "create" anything new...that's why I feel that whatever millions of cds they sell, they won't have a lasting mark on the culture

(Not saying this is a "true" theory, just how I feel about it...)

I feel you, that's how I feel also nobody's really pushing the envelope as artists.

 

[emoney]

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...

Chris Brown is on his way. The lane is clear as fukk and it's not about if but when. He may already be there according to some. One thing that needs to noted is that part of being a "superstar" is having a story, having some type of controversy or career or life changing event that catapults you into the stratosphere. With Chris Brown, I'd say that event was the Rihanna beating. People say that it hurt his career but I think it actually helped it.

 

[emoney]

Wu-tang (specifically Method Man)
Fugees (specifically Lauryn Hill)
Ice Cube
LL Cool J
Fresh Prince/Will Smith

cube and wu-tang were not stars

 

[Lavish]

People really bringing FUTURE in this equation?


Future not even close. Hood n!ggas like him and he big in atlanta but really get outta here with that bullsh!t

Theres people in his lane that are bigger then him...jeezy, ross, gucci..etc

He gonna have to surpass them to even be in this discussion..and that lane will be hard to even reach megastardom. I mean jeezy is the only one with some content now. Took him a while but hes startin to say somethin. Ross talks about bullsh!t and gucci is sort of in the middle. First requirement of mega rap star, is saying somethin. You can make a million hits and club anthems but if you not sayin somethin, you not in the discussion alla Rick Ross