So is Roc Marciano a pop artist?
If so, why?
Only Idiots Think Kendrick Lamar Is "Pop"
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If so, why?
IllmaticDelta
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no because he has no real buzz, mass appeal or influence
NYC Warrior
Dat ole real sh*t
Only idiots even listen to that fake woke lil nikka
So not all rap is pop then?
IllmaticDelta
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I read those quotes as supporting what I'm saying though
The beauty of a system like that is, once again, you’re defining this cohort by the center of the genre, not the edges. So if a core R. & B. and hip-hop listener—that user who normally listens to Kendrick Lamar—one day decides, “This Lorde record is cool to me—I’m going to stream that twelve times this week,” that’s worthy of the chart. Now what you’re tracking, finally, is crossover, which is the whole point of this exercise. You’re tracking both songs that start in a genre and eventually move outward to pop, and songs that start pop and later get adopted by genre fans. That’s been interesting for the past fifty years.
pop = not a genre or sound
pop = a variety of songs and artists from the big macro genres (rock, r&B, hiphop, country, electronica-dance, reggae, latin etc..) who have mass appeal and wide consumption who chart on the top 40 or billboard hot 100
....the songs that usually start out as "pop" are from a marketing perspective. So far example, this Hall & Oates is clearly R&B genre wise but might be marketed as "pop" because they were a white group
or something like this cameo song was marketed as R&B but if they were white, would be marketed as "pop"
IllmaticDelta
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rap as a genre is pop/mainstream but yeah, not all rappers or individual rap songs are pop(ular)
YepThis shyt way too crazy, aye
You do not amaze me, aye
I blew cool from AC, aye
Obama just paged me, aye
I don't fabricate it, aye
Most of ya'll be fakin, aye
I stay modest bout it, aye
She elaborate it, aye
This that Grey Poupon, that Evian, that Ted Talk, aye
Watch my soul speak, you let the meds talk, aye
^^^^ If any "mumble rapper" would've rapped these watered down lyrics, threads would've been made discussing the lack of lyrical content and how basic the bars were
Because it's Kendrick, they give him a pass
Eminem?
Dont disrespect Kendrick like that
Eminem is THEE most overrated rapper ever. Period.