No matter how much we complain on the internet, the truth is, we have watered down (IMO) or evolved (to others) so much in rap that we now play by a different set of rules - the rules of the global pop icon.
And I think we got here from years of neglect, copycats, etc, and ushered in on the wave of Kanye (not saying its his fault but thats how life works) which birthed Drake, the multitalented singing/rapper that was better at both than Ye, and made many people millions by being able to have a million flows, cadences, accents, cities, crews - basically being everything for everybody, an unprecedented force that really no other rapper, not even our goats, could hope to be - and all so subtly, because at the beginning of it all - hes a trained actor.
And Im saying this as a fan of Drakes music (surface level) because its fukking sounds incredible. It's perfect sonics.
But its not "real".
But what is "real"? If you have ever seen Black Mirror, you know peoples view on real changes and perceptions and things we never thought could happen happen, because newer generations only know what they know.
With the powerful rise of AI images and motions and audio and training on music and beats and rhymes and the talent of every artist that ever existed ever, why wouldn't the next big hip hop artist of the 2020s/2030s be completely AI, from look to sound to status to everything. As in, the most untouchable artist of all time - and the people that will support "it" are kids now, they will never live in a world where it matters how someone produces the sounds they like, as long as those sounds exists.
And if not completely AI, at worst a classically trained artist and the music is completely AI based on algorithms of the best sounds of the current second, doing things even ghostwriters could never accomplished and breaking every record that ever existed because the world loves the music.
Is this far fetched?
And I think we got here from years of neglect, copycats, etc, and ushered in on the wave of Kanye (not saying its his fault but thats how life works) which birthed Drake, the multitalented singing/rapper that was better at both than Ye, and made many people millions by being able to have a million flows, cadences, accents, cities, crews - basically being everything for everybody, an unprecedented force that really no other rapper, not even our goats, could hope to be - and all so subtly, because at the beginning of it all - hes a trained actor.
And Im saying this as a fan of Drakes music (surface level) because its fukking sounds incredible. It's perfect sonics.
But its not "real".
But what is "real"? If you have ever seen Black Mirror, you know peoples view on real changes and perceptions and things we never thought could happen happen, because newer generations only know what they know.
With the powerful rise of AI images and motions and audio and training on music and beats and rhymes and the talent of every artist that ever existed ever, why wouldn't the next big hip hop artist of the 2020s/2030s be completely AI, from look to sound to status to everything. As in, the most untouchable artist of all time - and the people that will support "it" are kids now, they will never live in a world where it matters how someone produces the sounds they like, as long as those sounds exists.
And if not completely AI, at worst a classically trained artist and the music is completely AI based on algorithms of the best sounds of the current second, doing things even ghostwriters could never accomplished and breaking every record that ever existed because the world loves the music.
Is this far fetched?
