Something weird is happening in hip-hop

Country music has taken over as the top genre, it's a new era y'all

Danny Brown will always be one of my favorite hip hop artists. His unique voice on the mic as well as the electronic elements in his beats keep me listening for life....I caught him live in Columbus OH around 2016 and he did not disappoint.

I think it has a lot to do with the way an entire race of people has nothing to “rebel” against in this genre that was created out of rebellion. Blacks have went from a position of oppression to a position of never-before-seen (in any race ) privilege. They’re just getting increasingly out of touch.

It started dying the 1st January 2000, when white boy Eminem blew up that was the end for me.

Hip Hop is ♾️

Hip hop ain't dying

You completely skipped over the independent rap movement of the late 90's early 2000's , while that bad boy garbage was leading us to where we are

Hip hop died in the late 90's and what's followed has just capitalised and bastardised on what made it great. Commercial rap would be a better term.

It will take us far

asap rocky and yams, with the help/influences of clams casino, lil b, sgp, crafted the perfect blueprint for rappers to go off with LLA in 2011. however due to the industry pushing the likes of drake, kdot, tyler, etc as the new image of rap; rap as a whole has been on a rapid decline ever since. the fact that very little people recognise this fact is why alot of ppl are only just now making these video essays regarding the very death of the genre.

I think people are confusing going viral with being a good track.
Most of the current "rappers" go viral for a few moments and then disappear. they are all mostly the same and there is nothing unique about them.
There is no substance to their songs and their videos are either "im rich" or "let me twerk".

Another thing that was great about the genre was the difference between south, west etc rap in the late 80s and early 2000s. Now any regional rapper will mostly mumble or repeat the same word 90% of the song.

Hip Hop is global! Mexican Rap or Mexa is fire 🔥🔥🔥right now. Santa Fe Klan, Aleman, Lefty SM, Dharuis, Ckan n more. You should check them out.

yall forgettin the influence of B L A C K I E on the new rap sound. Kanye never coulda made Yeezus without it

Instrumentals over rappers🙏🏾

They keep showing MC ride but never mentioned

At the beginning of my music journey experience i listend to more rock and punk but a few years later i slowly switchend more into hiphop and i saw really strong parallels to punk. This Video had me reminded again.

If punk was a genre of hip hop and not rock. The artist would have no flow, no delivery, and the music would sound like Noise. Ask John Liden about a punk and see what he says. If you wanna compare punk to anything compare it to drill. Both are sub genres and to be fair both have "some" "some" "some" good music. But for the most part no artistry.

Only thing rebellious about hip hop is the people who feel rebellious listening to it, same people who felt rebellious twisting their hips to rock on roll before elvis came along and gave them "ukin permission

I'm surprised rock still comes 2nd 😮

My new single dropping soon

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Find him.
Know him.

This is not a test, this is real.

I don't know how you mentioned avant-garde and Hip Hop and leave out MF DOOM, Sean Price, Roc Marciano, Billy Woods or ArmandHammer, , Griselda, Mach-Hommy and Dumpgawd, etc. Are we specifically talking about punk hip hop or commercial "pop" hip hop only here? If that's the case then I'll back off but if you talking avant-garde I don't know how you leave them out.

Hip and Rap I grew up with were all about fighting oppression in my country. I can't connect with Hip Hop anymore

It’s time people gave other genres a chance hip hope had a crazy run from 2015 to 2020

God this video is so well produced and visually interesting.I so aprecciate efforts like this and it really pays off to create a polished and cohesive message

Hip hop/rap needs to drop in popularity & it being popular would be fine If more song in the genre didn’t have cussing

Black people talk about stuff = hip hop

the stuff getting popular now is absolute dogshit

Lol. Derivative copies of what Amon Tobin and the like did decades ago.

Kanye West's - Graduation CHANGED EVERYTHING, Stadium Status, it was the beginning of Hip Hop targeting Stadium hits, Stadium Success, Rock Stadium Like, Kanye Lead the Experimental Wave in Hip Hop, also with 808's and Heartbreaks...

You left out a huge turning point in the genre: MF DOOM. He becomes more influential as the years go on, and he pioneered the stream-of-consciousness flow that a lot of MCs imitate in this lightning fast era of social media consumption.

I mean there's an unnoticed irony here I think. That we posit this as can 'hip hop innovate' seems to infer the abscence of any potential for a new genre and an acceptance that we are indeed wollowing in stagnant water culturally. A new genre means something you could not have conceieved of in terms of it's form before previously hearing it. The fact is I really struggle to see hip hop truly surprising me anymore.

A large part of this is to do with the rapid speeed of technological change outpacing our ability to acculturate to it I think and hence this converse effect of feeling like we keep putting the same things on repeat. The fact that in the years 1970-1990 there were many many new genres created. Compared to the last 20 years where no new genre's with the acception of dub step in the UK have been created. We're still talking about how we can seek more innovation out of a genre that's 40 years old. There might be some new takes but nothing that can truly be said to be a new form. IF you're asking the question of whether a genre is becoming stagnant you already have your answer there. The real question imo should be why we fail to see how abnormal it is historically to be like how i've described above for the last 20 years.

Gotta get hip to Trademark-S.

Hip hop, rap and modern pop all has to go! All auto-tuned, computerized junk done by flakes and fakes with no musical talent and with ghost writers. All pure, sheer rubbish today that needs to go all together 😫😖😵‍💫💀😠

I heard last time there was a hip tune that reached #1 was way back in 1993. Three decades. Another sign that it'll gradually go under.

I think mia's album is one of the two pillers of avant garde hip hop, the other is mad villainy, that paved the way for the avant garde lyricists like earl sweatshirt, Billy woods, Khan. I think they also play a biiig role in the future of hip hop

Giving MIA the credit for “prototype moment” for the genre is a little wild, especially when that year had all time albums such as. MBDTF, which may not have influenced the “experimental” aspects. However, Man On The Moon II, as well as Raw by Hopsin both played a major part the “avant-garde revolution.”

Also hip-hop is not dying, it’s evolving as all music/art does.

Man this shit is weird and don't sound nothing like Hip Hop.

Good

It has reached the plateau of inane buffoonery.

The intelligence of the general population has taken a nosedive and is dragging everything down with it.

Does Trillwave, Vapor Trap, and Phonk factor into this revolution? I personally really enjoy listening to old tracks get chopped/screwed, distorted, or reimagined with influences from EDM and smooth jazz.

No black kray mentioned in video so that means opinion invalidated

You skipped over odd futures contribution but I get it.

I am so confused, the thumbnail for this video was Utopia yet you don't even mention Travis or the album lol

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I love the experimental genres in rap like scream rap, industrial rap, punk rap, trap metal, there’s so many new rap genres it’s crazy so many new artists and sounds this is like one of the best eras in music.