Kingshango
Veteran
Rap today is where hair metal/glam rock was back then.
What happened to Rock is slowly happening to Rap. You are seeing the beginning of Rap no longer being the dominant genre in music
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Piff Perkins
Veteran
How? The biggest rappers today aren't comparable to hair/glam rock aesthetically. If anything a lot of shyt is way more toned down these days. The shiny suit era was far more comparable to hair metal than now. And just like grunge appeared and put that shyt to a cease, DMX did the same for rap.
You could also compare snap and ring tone eras to hair metal, with Jeezy/TI/Gucci/etc being the movement that ushered it out again.
Laidbackman
All Star
Blues, House, Jazz, Soul, and R&B probably will comeback, because they never really left. It's just that rap and hip-hop overshadowed them for awhile.
Funk, Soul, and R&B were interchangeable back in the day, especially Soul and R&B. And Funk was the Rock and Roll of Soul. Soul was just Black music, and every Black age group listened to the same sounds for the most part. That's probably what we will be going back to, hopefully. A lot of rap was a spinoff of Soul, R&B, and Funk. They used a lot of it, beginning with Funk. And the originators of Funk, like George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelics, never got paid. The Funkadelics weren't into who had copyrights, etc... They were more concerned with making sounds for the people. A lot of rap used R&B too. I'm sure everybody is aware of that, for example Kanye, Jayzee, etc...
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If that means hip-hop goes back to the purists and the casual CACs can fukk off, bring on the death 
Laidbackman
All Star
Whatever genre comes next, we need to make sure non-Black people don't try to claim it again.
Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
I can't really say it's been anything "must hear" for me in at least 4-5 years.
The barrier for entry is too low so it's oversaturated, been saying for awhile. The fact that you can make a full song in a bedroom in 30 minutes in your spare time takes the blood, sweat, and tears out of the lyrics and performance.
The gatekeepers of yesteryear were a double-edged sword; they chose who blew, but at least they picked people who had talent.
Afrobeat, reggaeton, and EDM got it right now...and that shyt MID as fukk as it is, but it's generally of a higher quality than rap.
The barrier for entry is too low so it's oversaturated, been saying for awhile. The fact that you can make a full song in a bedroom in 30 minutes in your spare time takes the blood, sweat, and tears out of the lyrics and performance.
The gatekeepers of yesteryear were a double-edged sword; they chose who blew, but at least they picked people who had talent.
Afrobeat, reggaeton, and EDM got it right now...and that shyt MID as fukk as it is, but it's generally of a higher quality than rap.
Premeditated
MANDE KANG
the top rap hits have either been by pop rap girls, DrakeFuture combos
there are more latin hits in the top 100 than male rap hits right now
there are more latin hits in the top 100 than male rap hits right now
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
They been saying Hip-Hop won't last since the day it started.. We 50 years in now and been on top since 2017Yall DO realize we're like 2 decades overdue for a new mainstream genre right???
Jazz... Rock N' Roll... R&B... Soul... Funk... Hip Hop... more Hip Hop... even More Hip Hop... MORE MORE HIP HOP... MORE MORE MORE HIP HOP
We ain't going nowhere.... In the US
Cause in the world, we only number 6
That is not what I said at all
good, we need to let it go lmao
We had it for so long that the Kardashians are one of the most powerful families in the world.
UpAndComing
Veteran
Afrobeats is already taking over
bright black
All Star
the coli kind of reflect what is going on with rap music. it is the same rappers doing the same thing they did before going to the top and on the coli it is the same posters making threads about the same old shyt and people enjoy it every time.
VoxSphere74
Banned
Black people didn't make the Kardashians. Cacs did.
As for rap, that K-pop stuff which is basically a mismash of dance/r&b/pop/hip hop with a korean face
is taking over the world.
Cave Savage
Feminist
Afrobeats, various forms of global pop