>To be clear, hip-hop is still the most listened-to genre of music by far, and it’s still growing. According to Luminate, it has a 26.8% share of U.S. recorded music consumption; the next closest genre is rock at 20%. But that hip-hop number was 27.7% in 2021 and reached a peak of 28.2% in 2020. After a heightened growth period in the 2010s, hip-hop’s growth has slowed down.
What's up? Hip hop only had 1 album in the top 10 this year, rappers tours are getting cancelled, most mainstream rappers are dropping trash albums?
Is hip hop declining in popularity? and if so why? is it tiktok making pop/kpop popular? or is it just running out of creative juice as a genre?
>>8913Saw this stupid click bait video recommended to me on youtube too.
>To be clear, hip-hop is still the most listened-to genre of music by far, and it’s still growing>dying>it has a 26.8% share of U.S. recorded music consumptionThe share is still too high. 1/3rd of all music listened to and it's all a rehash of Hip Hop from the 90s. uygha, uygha, kill a uygha, smack a bitch, sell some drugs.
>Hip hop only had 1 album in the top 10 this year, Hip hop music has been about singles and the uygha of the week for awhile.
Just look for shit bro
You're acting like a meteor hit the earth or something, there's always gonna be a bunch of stuff getting released at a time
>>8918Mainstream is a spook, especially now that the internet is a thing
>>8924this
All this hip-hop/rock n roll is dead is just old-school fools looking for vintage aesthetic.
>>8940they aid the same thing back.in 2005-2011.
And you say that like its a bad thing.
And Gen Z has their own epoch of rap with the trap and drill shit.
I wish rap music would grow out of gangster themes. It did or a time back 2008 - 2013 with LMFAO, Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull and whatnot with house music.
>>8917Speaking of obscure Hip-Hop artists, a great one is Jazz Spastiks. Sucks that they aren't more popular. If you like Hip-Hop from the 90s, you'll probably love these dudes, although I think any music fan of any era can enjoy their shit.
Some songs of theirs (these songs are some of my favorite songs):
Move feat Apani B Fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isXd-748v9EColours
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOqKxhqTkw&list=OLAK5uy_k5gg2KZ7M5KfPKMJXHnUD4teB-aB39GGo&index=8&pp=8AUBHot Shit! feat Junclassic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K0dvOVg4uKw&list=OLAK5uy_nUCDMUHFGvEdOdZ8SySMWKw7CnYEB0bMs&index=10&pp=8AUB >>8915Drake's music is kinda fun tho
He raps like how young people talk even though he's like an old ass millennial at this point
Also no one gives a shit about "inauthenticity" anymore
Plasticness is the wave
>>8996exactly. Hip hop wamts to remain ghetto fab, rapping about thug life problems and "coming up". Nothing is allowed to be artsy or purely fun.
Its just punk for blacks.
Rap music was best left as jazz poetry
>>8913Maybe one reason is that a lot of young upcoming rappers who were supposed to establish themselves in the industry either died or went to prison (XXXTentacion, Juice Wrld, Lil Peep, Pop Smoke, Tay K).
It just feels stagnating and repetitive now
>>8913Reminder the album in the OP came out 17 years ago kek.
Hip Hop should die. It's amazing it staid around this long. Can't just keep on doing the same counter-culture shit forever and have it still be fresh. Hip Hop should be as dead as Grunge, Punk, Metal etc.
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