Hip-hop the Most Fickle Out Of Any Genre?

[Loose]

Couple random points:

1. Rock is way more diverse than hip hop. Thats one thing hip hop needs is more divisions. Folk rock, Indie music, Metal. There are stars in all those genres who have been working for 10 years and never been famous. Hip Hop really only has one lane that every artist has to try to make it in if they want to eat...

2. Rock music in the mainstream is dead. Deader than hip hop. They can't make stars or hits and when they do the band disappears almost immediately. So at the moment its very "fickle". Like whatever happened to Kings of Leon?

3. Rock radio stations play mostly old songs, hip hop radio stations play mostly new songs.

4. The live show is not that important in hip hop. But thats the best and most reliable way for any musician have a career...

I was with you until you brought up Kings of leon, the album Come Around Sundown was very successful actually

 

[boskey]

I was with you until you brought up Kings of leon, the album Come Around Sundown was very successful actually

I've never even heard of that album. Did it sell? Cuz the other album before that had like 3 HUGE singles...

 

[Loose]

I've never even heard of that album. Did it sell? Cuz the other album before that had like 3 HUGE singles...

went gold, sold tons around the world it was just a terrible album

 

[Liquid]

you can't compare hip hop to rock..

you have to accept hip hop on its own merits

there's a competitive nature in rap that's not found in any other genre. out with the old, in with the new. takeover by force. none of this heir apparent bullshyt. its always been fueled by youth

Came in here to post this.

most of Hip Hop's artists come from a background of battling, and if that's not in there background...they inevitably get dissed/lured into it. Hell even Nelly dropped a "diss track", Drake has people hating on him, any artist you can think of and there are attacks going on back and forth at one point or another. The "loser" usually has to fall back and try to come up with a gameplan to recover, Jay-Z played it perfectly with great promotion and smart business moves.

Apart from battling, the culture has always been about what is hot right now...the trends that are in. Going back to artists that have been around for a while is not something we do. All artists know this, this is why it is CRUCIAL to drop a debut that many consider a classic or damn near a classic at the start and work from there. Once you are at the top...you better try to hold on to it as long as you can. DMX knew this from the start, Jay-Z from Volume 2 - Blueprint, 50 Cent until 2-3 years ago, 2pac until death.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

I was with you until you brought up Kings of leon, the album Come Around Sundown was very successful actually

And no one but teenage girls listen to them anymore after all the hipsters fukking loved em. I saw them before they 'blew up' and it was all hipsters in LA, I went and saw them last time they were at the Hollywood bowl and it was 80% white girls. All those hipster doods don't fukk with em because they blew up.