Nah, I wish there was more rapping going on but I like the melodic music too.
I made this thread.
Freddie Gibbs: “We ain’t gon have rap in 5 years if u nikkaz don’t start rapping again”
For me at this point I just want more balance in the music it’s like everything is some street shyt.
The social media era caters to what holds the attention spans of 13-20yo listeners, they grew up on drill and trap so that’s all they want to hear. It feeds into itself because those are the rappers w/ the most followers on these platforms so the algorithm spoon feeds the street shyt over and over. The real problem is that “we” don’t control our own media, there’s no black media that’s as widespread within the community as IG or tik tok to create a balance of what trends.
The “Alternative” to street rap for that audience is juice wrld/lil uzi vert hair metal rap
which is giving a lot of white vultures a lane into the charts because no one would believe their street tales anyway but they’ll believe their junkie raps all day.
Also the industry highkey created a dichotomy where they only let black rappers get on rapping about street shyt while white rappers follow the Murs formula and get the push for it, I.e. Jack Harlow and etc