Yeah Burna Boy says Afrobeats isn't really about anything, said it has "no substance".
Its because the American audience doesn't know the language, in general its the same content found in a typical mainstream American Rap or R&B song.
Ebro Says He Got A Call From Record Labels Saying “It Should Be Noted Many Major Record Labels Have Deprioritized Signing Rappers”
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Yeah Burna Boy says Afrobeats isn't really about anything, said it has "no substance".
Its because the American audience doesn't know the language, in general its the same content found in a typical mainstream American Rap or R&B song.
LiveFromLondon
Superstar
I been said rap is in its last days of Rome phase but difference is this is a managed decline by the labels
If we’re being honest with ourselves, Hip Hop is actually the first time that Black culture settled in on a music genre for so long. From the turn of the 20th century to the end of it you had many different music genres and styles which were birthed in the Black community.
What you see now is an overall stagnation of culture and in particular Black culture and I think it’s because Hip Hop was when the commodification of Art reached its apex coupled with the growing need to feed the renewable resource that is “Teen culture”. It’s why Rap could have a golden era like all the other Black music that came before it and at the same time see itself last so long that it’s lost it’s way.
The question is will Black culture regain this penchant for constant reinvention/renewal or are we headed to a new landscape in music and culture? Mind you, this doesn’t factor in the AI variable in the discussion.
What you see now is an overall stagnation of culture and in particular Black culture and I think it’s because Hip Hop was when the commodification of Art reached its apex coupled with the growing need to feed the renewable resource that is “Teen culture”. It’s why Rap could have a golden era like all the other Black music that came before it and at the same time see itself last so long that it’s lost it’s way.
The question is will Black culture regain this penchant for constant reinvention/renewal or are we headed to a new landscape in music and culture? Mind you, this doesn’t factor in the AI variable in the discussion.
It means that labels are truly done with rap as a whole. If the 50th Anniversary push cannot stimulate sales, then 2024 onward the outlook is very bleak.
The whole Mass Appeal Hip Hop 50th feels more or less like a 'Goodbye' rather than a celebration.
This is exactly how i feel about all of the celebrations for Hip Hop 50 this summer. It's almost like saying goodbye to a friend or relative whose been in your life forever, but got that job overseas, and you know that you'll probably never have the same moments or experiences with that person. To me, it's like saying goodbye to that friend, because it'll never ever be the same again. I think hip hop as a genre is in the danger zone, and when acts like Drake, J-Cole and Kendrick hang it up for good, that will be the end of rap as a mainstream genre. It's going to go the way of alternative rock stations, with just throwback songs, and a few current songs.
Drake might be the last truly big hip hop star, if we're keeping it real. I'm not a fan of his, but he's the only current hip hop star that can do an arena tour on his own, and sell out shows. He's also the only major hip hop star that can drop an album and sell 100K+ the first week. Travis Scott is also in that rarefied air too. When both those guys bounce from hip hop, That might be the last time you'll see any hip hop star with the ability to sell out arenas, and release #1 albums.
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Playaz Eyez
Veteran
Saw LL Cool J, Roots, Bone Thugs, Goodie Mob, Juvenile, Big Boi/Sleepy Brown and Rakim perform last night and it was not at all this.
You missed this.
All those acts are 20 to 40 years old at this point. Different energy.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
What y’all think happened to r&b
The start defunding that shyt in the 80s
The start defunding that shyt in the 80s
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
This aged horribly
Rap not going nowhere. Hip Hop is a black art form with its roots in the inner cities of America. It will be here as long as we are here.
Renegade47
Superstar
if that shyt dies in the mainstream its gone be just like jazz. dead af.
spliz
SplizThaDon
When people start making it about talent again it can survive but honestly the music industry as a whole is tucked. Rock even fell off for a good decade plus.
Insensitive
Superstar
The money just isn't there to nurture talent.
Brehs already know I'm out here in LA, I've started to make inroads into trying to produce and there
are artists with FUNDING that can barely afford to get their projects out.
Like anyone close to TDE basically has unlimited studio time, access to Engineers etc.
Or if you're closed to any one of the majors in LA, you're OKAY not GOOD but at least OKAY.
If you aren't in that arena, then you're scraping by with garbage gigs to maybe record at a decent non-shady spot.
You can't work on your craft if you're criminally broke.
It's to the point even the metal and rock bands in the area are recording at "The homies house" because paying for a studio
with good amenities and the necessary space to record four or five dudes at a time can easily run you $4k A DAY.
People really don't get it like at all.
The indie grind is NOT for the faint of heart or the BROKE.
Brehs already know I'm out here in LA, I've started to make inroads into trying to produce and there
are artists with FUNDING that can barely afford to get their projects out.
Like anyone close to TDE basically has unlimited studio time, access to Engineers etc.
Or if you're closed to any one of the majors in LA, you're OKAY not GOOD but at least OKAY.
If you aren't in that arena, then you're scraping by with garbage gigs to maybe record at a decent non-shady spot.
You can't work on your craft if you're criminally broke.
It's to the point even the metal and rock bands in the area are recording at "The homies house" because paying for a studio
with good amenities and the necessary space to record four or five dudes at a time can easily run you $4k A DAY.
People really don't get it like at all.
The indie grind is NOT for the faint of heart or the BROKE.
UK rappers running laps around these dudes