What happened to Rock is slowly happening to Rap. You are seeing the beginning of Rap no longer being the dominant genre in music

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

There's no indication rap is dying. It remains the most popular genre in this country

Looking at the numbers it looks to me like pop bullshyt is dominating right now.

 

[inndaskKy]

i think most genres are dead

metal is really bad right now too

America is dead

 

[Dave24]

I feel you and I won't ever knock somebody for preferring 90s rnb over previous eras. It was top notch. However, when I think of peak R&B, I think of Off the Wall, Earth Wind, Fire, Debarge, Luther. Just look at the variety. You got your mainstream shyt with MJ and Debarge. You got your conscious, soul moving shyt in EWF then you got your crooning, tear jerking ballads in Luther.

In the 90s, you kind of started to lose that variety. Everybody was kind of on that same type of style: jodeci, dru hill, silk, blackstreet. Not much difference between these groups.

Look at the women: SWV, Xscape, En Vogue, Destinys Child, 702, Blaque. Again, not much variety. Formulaic.

The industry started eliminating individuality. That's why I loved that small neosoul transition we got in the early mid 90s. Sade, Tone, Toni Tone, D'angelo, Erykah etc. It was a breath of fresh air because it was creative, exciting, odd and fundamentally black. No white influence.

These days, you don't have none of that shyt. Nobody's pushing the art forward. Nobodys being innovative. I mean, yeah drill rap is "new" but it's trash. It doesn't push the art forward. It actually holds it back.

Great post, well said @Hathaway

@Hathaway what do you think about Leon Bridges and Daniel Cesar??

 

[Hathaway]

Great post, well said @Hathaway

@Hathaway what do you think about Leon Bridges and Daniel Cesar??

Big fans of both. I enjoyed Leon when he 1st dropped with that 60s vibe he had going on. I was listening to River today actually.

Daniel is a dope artist. I enjoy his song writing moreso than his vocal ability but he puts it all together fairly well. Never makes a bad album in my opinion. I dont think he'll ever do better than his Freudian album. I really enjoyed that one from top to bottom.

 

[maxamusa]

if rap isn't fun or deep/introspective its not a good look

 

[Cave Savage]

I just looked at the Billboard top 20. There's about 5-6 rap songs which sounds like a lot but up until last year the top 20 was usually more than half rap songs.

It's mostly country and pop bullshyt and Bad Bunny.

A couple years ago, it was common for almost all of the top 10 to be rap or rap inspired

 

[TEH]

Just before Rock lost its mainstream appeal it got really goofy and ignorant … does that sound familiar?

 

[tremonthustler1]

Let Afrobeats and Latin music take over

We get back to lab and take House music and RnB and soul and funk back and create some new, modern stylish music

Maybe repurpose drill stylings for something that ain’t about killing nikkas the whole song

Political drill would have the FBI at your doorstep

 

[feelosofer]

The problem with todays hop-hop is all the rappers sound the same and mostly rap about the same shyt. It is all interchangeable.

 

[IIVI]

It simply got really fukking stale.

Even big artists music, really stale.

Foreign music low key always been popping so I'm not even surprised with Spanish music hitting as heavy as it is.

I may not be able to understand what they're saying, but I can't relate to what most of these rappers talk about today anyways.

 

[Astroslik]

It’s just dry rn I saw it coming. Too many artist were arrested or killed over a 3-4 year period

Bingo

Pop Smoke, Juice Wrld and XXX would’ve changed the trajectory of rap

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Since hiphop is 50 years old. Would you have a long range chart available?

Every year there is a music report. You can look it up by year. Rap took over in 2017 and hasn’t let go since.

The chart would be an uphill climb since it was nothing in the 70s and #1 today.

 

[International Playa]

Afro Beats & Amapiano taking over

 

[Astroslik]

Afro Beats & Amapiano taking over

Afro beats is ass.

Amapiano>>

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Looking at the numbers it looks to me like pop bullshyt is dominating right now.

You did not look at the right numbers as it’s been posted like 5-6 different times

Rap is still number 1 and has increased 6.5% since 2023

Y’all literally making up shyt