At what point does rap music completely dissolve into extinction?

[FrankieLymon757]

Imo it's reached its ceiling....

 

[DOSDUMUNI]

this new music is like rock music.
where it sounds like black people took rock back.
mixed with autotune and pitch augmentation.
that at the end of the day.

the music now should be called device.
as real talk..all this new music needs a device to generally perform.


art barr


i go indepth in this thread on this shyt.
that to go further in this thread would be do great of a deep dive on a gateway thread such as this.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-prophecy-of-macross-pluss-sharon-apple-reality.181052/

anyway.
if you wanna more indepth idea of what i think of the current music and the talent.
check the link.


art barr

I feel you bro you are absolutely right

 

[Reality Check]

Basically..

There is a subgenre of hip hop for old heads soon to enter the Larry Holmes Garden that could be successful.

 

[Mac Ten]

As soon as the older execs die off

 

[KillKenny]

Can anyone name an extinct genre of music, besides maybe disco (some might view it as a subgenre) in the last 50 years? Rap won't go extinct, it'll simply keep changing. The same is happening to all music. We've got decades worth of data that tells us everything goes in cycles. At some point the two minute song era will phase out. My only concern about rap is the people making decisions (specifically white execs/managers) are so entrenched in dumbing everything down that nobody is looking around at the money that's being left on the table. Why are Kendrick, Drake, and Cole still out earning every rap artist that came after them? How sustainable is a model built on wack women shaking their ass and getting a quick surge in streams on a song/video before fizzling out, over and over again. Only 2-3 of those artists can tour. VS Kendrick/Drake/Cole raking in hundreds of million on tour.

But you can't get another Kendrick/Drake/Cole without nurturing artists that grow fanbases and connect with people beyond a catchy single. At some point, someone has to decide the short term money can't be the only play.

I think grunge is a good example for what might happen to rap. Similar to rap it was super hot in the 90s with Nirvana and that wave. But that died in the early 2000s, and I can't name one significant grunge band in the last decade. Rap kept evolving and took over music pretty much, I agree the peak might be over (both artistically and popularity), unless there will be another evolvement - I can see it losing lead

 

[TheMailMan]

It will never die ,new listeners will come and the older guys will phase out . A hip hop head listening to kool moe doe isn't gonna be jamming some lil Uzi vert or slim Jesus lol . I knew guys who grew up on NWA that hated on e40 and bone when they coming out in the early/mid 90s

 

[Yaboysix]

It's impossible.

We have Rhythm and soul in our DNA .it's in us ..

We're gonna Rap forever

 

[Solomon Lurke]

Real question

Where would one play this music, particular this song that you posted at these days?

And how would it go in that setting?

Literally went to see if it was on streaming so I could bump it in the whip today but I’m a big Duke Deuce fan and this beat slaps.

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

It's going to keep getting diluted with country and post Malone type shyt until it's barely recognizable

 

[brickfare]

Lanks?

the Keyon Harold album that dropped this year is good. Roy Ayers dropped a project with Oh No recently. Kamasi Washington, BADBADNOTGOOD dropped this year. Venna is another one of my favorites but I think his last project dropped in 2023

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

Rap is gonna be like jazz eventually. Was the dominant genre but as time went by it became more and more niche

Same will happen to rap. Just give it time

Yup and I'd add, most of these rappers aren't artists and once we reach a point where rappers aren't making big money from doing this, it won't be as popular.

There's already a lack of stars in this era so what happens when you're making only what you can make from your average job by rapping? People just won't be as drawn to doing it.

Being a streamer is already infinitely more appealing than being a rapper in 2024. Kai Cenat or Fanum are winning more than so many up and coming rappers