Hip-Hop is now the most dominant music genre in America

[Regina George 59,387]

This is just so tragic...  Drake is soooooooooooooooooooooooo overrated..

[RonnieGagz 4,300]

3 minutes ago, Talent said:

If you like Lana, you'll love this. 

Childish Gambino, Kendrick, J. Cole, Chance The Rapper, Azealia are great, great artist. Pure excellence. 

Now you got me, loved this 

I just wish the vocals were louder 

[Talent 9,333]

6 minutes ago, RonnieGagz said:

Now you got me, loved this 

My grammar is so awful today. Damn. fsfh

But yes, the genre has changed a lot. Not everything is great (Migos is TRASH), but some things are just magnificent. 

[RonnieGagz 4,300]

2 minutes ago, Talent said:

My grammar is so awful today. Damn. fsfh

But yes, the genre has changed a lot. Not everything is great, but some things are just magnificent. 

Yeah, sadly, I think the GP just choose the bad ones  just like in the pop music nowadays

Forgive my grammar if something is wrong too, English is not my first language 

[Talent 9,333]

1 minute ago, RonnieGagz said:

Yeah, sadly, I think the GP just choose the bad ones  just like in the pop music nowadays

Forgive my grammar if something is wrong too, English is not my first language 

Migos, for example. So embarrassing. 

[KingRedd 3,139]

Not surprising. I'm glad the constant edm era is closing. Every song sounds very similar now. Hip hop and R&B is what I grew up on in the late 90s and early 2000s. Hip Hop and Rock are genres where artists aren't afraid to say it how it is and stand up for a cause. Pop music can get very vapid and "love" heavy. 

[Hades 27,980]

If Migos and Lil Uzi topping the charts is an achievement...This is embarrassing compared to the glorious 90's hip hop music. Only Kendrick serves quality.

[Morphine Prince 102,370]

1 hour ago, GoldenPonyboy said:

I'm telling you, streaming is going to ruin music. It seems as though the new generation who listens to music via streaming services do not know older artists and classics, they subscribe to a playlist and eat up whatever they are fed. I remember being a kid, my first music experience were with my parents CD's so I would listen to the classics before even hearing current stuff. Now, kid's first experience with music is managed by record label execs who pay spotify to have a song in their hit list. 

Radio stations do the same thing. They feed you what labels are selling. No difference. 

With streaming I have actually discovered so many smaller artists and have all this music available for me without a hassle. 

[Fernster7 7,845]

Talent lost.

[NIghtmareElm 2,606]

People who are bashing hip hop, check out these albums:

Straight Outta Compton - NWA

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

All Eyez On Me - 2Pac

Illmatic - Nas

Life After Death - The Notorious B.I.G.

To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

The Chronic - Dr. Dre

 

There are a lot more great hip hop albums.  These are just a few to ease anyone into hip hop that's not a fan.  There are even a lot of great modern day hip hop albums that I would recommend after listening to these iconic classics.  These are great to listen to with more narrow mind towards hip hop.  

 

 

 

 

[GloZell Green 11,723]

It's not that I'm not ok with it, but I would like to see artists who take it a step farther being the reason for the domination of the genre. Like Migos... no thanks  Happy to see some acts succeed though, like Kendrick.

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I'll never get over the fact that Azealia never broke through. Her attitude and mismanagement repelled her from the GP  But Chi Chi slays so hard. THAT'S a song that should have millions of streams every day.

 

[RAMROD 104,579]

I think it is dominant genre all over the world. Beat making machine requires very little skills to master, all you need are talent to compose awesome beats and freestyle rapping that make sense and gel to the beat seamlessly.

Some of those K-Pop music for example, they are using hip hop elements and rapping, and heard all over the world. Most especially around Asia.

And then grime music popular in UK, which also rooting from hip hop

 

[GoldenPonyboy 2,273]

1 hour ago, Morphine Prince said:

Radio stations do the same thing. They feed you what labels are selling. No difference. 

With streaming I have actually discovered so many smaller artists and have all this music available for me without a hassle. 

If you actually go out and explore I agree, Apple music is very convinient, I am subsribed to it. I don't know how old you are but I started High School in 2008. I remember having my first job working as a butcher and going out to buy a physical album with my own money and listening to every track in order on a portable CD player. I feel like it is an experience that is lost for people discovering music through streaming. You don't get that when you start with it if that makes any sense, because you just make your own playlist of subsribe to the ones you like for most people. As for radio, I've never really listened to radio. where I'm from we got three country station, one rock and a top 40 one that is 6 months late. 

Maybe I'm just getting old and I don't like change idk. I just feel like kids are missing out on a lot of great music. Some of them might have You Outta Know by Alanis Morissette but few have listened to Jagged Little Pill from start to finish. Hope my analogy makes sense. Altho I gotta give credit to Beyoncé with Lemonade. I think people saw what it felt like to listen to an album completely and it contributed to it's success.

[TheRoof 21,600]

i think this will change as always , radio and people taste is changing constantly

[TheRoof 21,600]

7 hours ago, GloZell Green said:

It's not that I'm not ok with it, but I would like to see artists who take it a step farther being the reason for the domination of the genre. Like Migos... no thanks  Happy to see some acts succeed though, like Kendrick.

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I'll never get over the fact that Azealia never broke through. Her attitude and mismanagement repelled her from the GP  But Chi Chi slays so hard. THAT'S a song that should have millions of streams every day.

 

THIS!!!!!