OPINION What year did you realize Hiphop was dead??

I think it's a (gap) meaning, in the YB thread, there's that 30 year old and up crowd who don't listen to his music, but he's running the game with the 30 and under crowd, yet he doesn't have any main radio hit, but he has hits.

Hip Hop is in a weird place. Artists in a sense don't know how to make records.

I posted a song by YB called Nevada, I shot it to AP this morning for him to check out, he told me that it wasn't his speed, (yet YB is the number one rapper that's out) AP isn't the only one that may not mess with YB music and that's cool, vice verse, AP would tell someone under 30 about the Clipse and they may not resonate to the album.

Back then, in the 90s, late 90s per say, Wayne Era, I don't think it was that way.

I know I'm close, but I really can't explain it right right, and land on the mark, but it's like the young folks have their music (which is about gun violence) that music don't make the radio or it doesn't make it on the charts, and the 30 and up crowd have their music, Clipse, Nas, old school shit and that music doesn't chart or not radio/tv friendly .

The only artists that can touch both crowds and make records that will chart is a Kendrick, Drake, maybe Future, maybe a J.Cole.
 
Knock_Twice said:
I think it's a (gap) meaning, in the YB thread, there's that 30 year old and up crowd who don't listen to his music, but he's running the game with the 30 and under crowd, yet he doesn't have any main radio hit, but he has hits.

Hip Hop is in a weird place. Artists in a sense don't know how to make records.

I posted a song by YB called Nevada, I shot it to AP this morning for him to check out, he told me that it wasn't his speed, (yet YB is the number one rapper that's out) AP isn't the only one that may not mess with YB music and that's cool, vice verse, AP would tell someone under 30 about the Clipse and they may not resonate to the album.

Back then, in the 90s, late 90s per say, Wayne Era, I don't think it was that way.

I know I'm close, but I really can't explain it right right, and land on the mark, but it's like the young folks have their music (which is about gun violence) that music don't make the radio or it doesn't make it on the charts, and the 30 and up crowd have their music, Clipse, Nas, old school shit and that music doesn't chart or not radio/tv friendly .

The only artists that can touch both crowds and make records that will chart is a Kendrick, Drake, maybe Future, maybe a J.Cole.
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Ah yea, I said that in the other thread, YB music, you'll hear/see a college football squad coming out to it, the players on the field before game stretching, more likely listening to YB, high schoolers players, running out to YB, NBA players, (see Ja Morant) YB fans, all under 30,

Would you catch Ja Morant listening to a Nas new album? or a new Luda album? Would you see high schoolers etc. But you may catch a dude or maybe a chick who go to cigar lounges, vibing to Nas or Luda (old stuff for the chicks) new album for the dudes.

If Nelly dropped an album this weekend, nobody under 30 will listen to this dude.

I was in the shop talking bout this, and folks in the barbershop was talking about the YNs at YB's concerts, but I said something to them...like YB been out for dayum near 10 years. Those kids at his shows were like 8 - 11 years old. Their parents were on YB We were the ones pushing YB lol. Dude been out since 2014, 2015, been rolling.

We was the one that made him pop off in a sense.

I just think the music commentary is different for the audiences nowadays and nobody's making music that's charting. Most don't really care to get on the charts with singles imo.
 
Hip Hop Dead, hell you can say the same for R&B
My homegirl was telling me that there's an A.I. singer that put out an album, played me a song by her and her shit sounds just like a Summer Walker, Sza, Coco Jones. I said, this shit is in the same format as these other singers that's out. Soft piano, players, slowed tempo and the soft voice

I'm like where's the riffs, the bounce in the voice, this flat monotone ass singing, everybody's a woman out now is doing this type of singing.

No variety. When the last time you heard a Saxaphone, an 8 break in the song, hell, the last song you heard that had a bridge in the hoe, a breakdown where the singer is just ripping through the shit. None of that is happening.

Who is the Quincy Jones, or Teddy Rily or Jimmy Jams of this generation?

Nobody's using their voice as an instrumentation

Listen to YB - Nevade (the dude isn't a singer) but his shit sounds better than Summer Walker shit, the way he uses his voice. I'm not talking bout him hittin notes, but the way he's using his voice to sing the hook on that song trumps what these chicks are doing on their records.

You can tell when a hook and verse starts in older R&B music, all this shit sounds the same throughout the entire song....I"m like is this the hook or an extended verse lol..

It's very basic and safe and at least with the YB nigga, he's trying to be out of the box. And that's just on one of his songs.

R&B is really on life support, Even the writing is trash on these R&B albums. Lyrics sound so suicidal, idk, the shit is bad to me. I aint grow up on this shit.
 
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