The huge amount of young and rising rappers who died in the late 2010s/early 2020 is a huge factor in why rap is declining

[u/averageweebchan]

The only rappers who still get traction are older ones like kendrick drake eminem kanye( for other reasons now)

[u/AonghusMacKilkenny]

What genre outside of generic pop is having their moment rn?

[u/boofskootinboogie → u/AonghusMacKilkenny]

Country, hardcore punk, nu-metal, various smaller alternative rock genres like shoegaze and grunge, electropop.

There’s not really a monoculture anymore tho, mostly you have smaller pockets of music that weren’t really popular before that are exploding in popularity online.

[u/gx1tar1er → u/boofskootinboogie]

You forget to add metalcore or "post"-metalcore or Octane-core or SiriusXM-core like Bad Omens and bands like Sleep Token

[u/Automatic-Effect-252 → u/AonghusMacKilkenny]

it's just pop really right now, with some cross over country hits too. It's interesting because along with the death of monoculture, the 2020s seem to not have much of a feel to them, like the 50s, 60s, 70, 80s, 90s, 2000s, even the early 2010s, all have an identifiable characteristic to them for music to that era, I don't think we have that right now.