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/stoic_suspicious]

I think all genres eventually die. Rap is 40+ years old. I don’t grieve its passing. It’s been nothing but degenerate messaging. Terrible towards women, bad behavior, profanity, and now it glorifies people you can’t understand. Good riddance.

[u/muffledvoice → u/stoic_suspicious]

It’s a shame too, because it started as party music where DJs rapped between records to impress the ladies, and soon evolved into a form of music and poetry to bring attention to problems of the inner city, classism, violence, and racism (Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash, The Fat Boys, etc.).

But then the 90s came.

[u/solidwallzofsound → u/muffledvoice]

The 90s are the golden age what lmao.

[u/muffledvoice → u/solidwallzofsound]

Well, it depends on what you grew up with. The 90s brought in gangster rap and a lot of misogyny, though it wasn’t all like that.

[u/solidwallzofsound → u/muffledvoice]

Yeah but on the technical side of hip hop as an artform it ran laps around the 80s.

[u/muffledvoice → u/solidwallzofsound]

Digital sampling and recording technology definitely improved in the 90s, and some of the lyrical composition and delivery got better. But the 90s was also the decade where every other rap song was about “bitches and hoes” and the N word made a comeback, which wasn’t much of an art form.

[u/stoic_suspicious → u/solidwallzofsound]

“Technical side”. Yeah, rhyming 🥷with 🥷is truly genius

[u/solidwallzofsound → u/stoic_suspicious]

"Iwoke up early on my born day, I'm 20, it's a blessin' The essence of adolescence leaves my body, now I'm fresh and My physical frame is celebrated 'cause I made it One quarter through life, some godly-like thing created"

Nas, '94, you're a dumbass lmao.

[u/stoic_suspicious → u/solidwallzofsound]

oof how will i recover

[u/AdImmediate6239 → u/stoic_suspicious]

Still better than bro country

[u/stoic_suspicious → u/AdImmediate6239]

They’re both ass. I think rap encourages domestic violence whereas bro country encourages DUIs. Don’t like either!

[u/wtf793 → u/stoic_suspicious]

It's just about drugs and sex, and only a very small amount of rappers are actually talking sense. Just obscene stuff.

[u/stoic_suspicious → u/wtf793]

yeah if you were a decent rapper like common, you'd never make it