It’s gotta be something homegrown.
Yep.
Things will never change UNLESS an entire generation of young people collectively decide that they're
tired of hearing death and sex on records and work to spearhead a new movement that catches fire.
Street rap will never go away, underground shyt will always have its place. Cats is always gon' be making "tapes".
But it's
whatever sways the thinking of the youth that's ALWAYS the most dominant type of music, both chartwise and from a popularity standpoint.....dating back decades in American music.
I'm sayin....juke joint places had subcultures where people dressed a certain way, had their own lingo or "brand" of speech, had their own dances, and basically existed happily outside the status quo of that era...that was youth-driven.
Rock n' roll kids had subcultures where people dressed a certain way, bucked authority in their own ways (e.g., back then, smoking cigarettes was considered rebellious
), had their own lingo, had their own dances, and basically existed happily outside the status quo of that era....that was youth-driven, and UNLIKE the previous era, this one went national in its popularity, not just remaining underground.
Hip-Hop was the same way: its fashion, lingo, dances, etc, have always been youth-driven.
Unless and until young people
collectively say
"man we TIRED of this 'drill/hoe rap'...so here's the NEW wave we on...", and introduce something new, this stuff ain't gon' change. THEY they future, right? Ain't that what Whitney sang?
If THEY don't take control of it on that grassroots level....shyt's a wrap.
here we go take 2.....
say what you want but NY gatekeeping kept rap alive. final nail in the coffin was NY following trends instead of setting them 
