Direction of HipHop
 

Due to aggressive expansion and the sea of garbage produced I wanted to ask everyone what direction did they think hip hop was going to take. I'm an artist myself but lately, I've taken to Soundtracks from TV shows and video games, classic music that makes me feel like a 70s gangster and Orchestral. Like I work out to Yuki Hayashi or The Matrix compilation soundtracks cause I ran outta **** to listen to. Everything in hip-hop right now is painfully monotonous to the post where it made me question if this **** is even worth my time or being a part of, someone change my mind please.

Hip Hop has exploded into so many directions and has so much diversity right now in terms of sound that you can obviously tell the passionate from the casual listener by comments like this.

hip hop is the mainstream genre right now which is wild to me, surpassing even most pop music in popularity! there are so many different directions it takes as a genre, especially when you get down to how it's made in other countries.

Grime is pretty cool in the UK

Funk Carioca in Brazil

Memphis Rap, while not centered in Memphis Tennessee anymore it's still in a revival period

idk I could go on, there's so much out there that's either being recorded or has been released since hip hop started in the late 70s in new york or even if you consider older singles as hip hop that predated the style

Eh, I feel like that just augurs whether or not its popularity and simplicity is the reason for its upcomance in musical culture at large. Think about it, if I found something so simple to make that it made me damm near lose brain cells to make it and its HIGHLY lucrative why wouldn't I .. im just like .. wheres the passion. Feels like yours working too hard you know.

I guess, maybe I'm just being critical idk

Or maybe you're just working off limited knowledge.

best recent discovery I can't believe this artist :bowdown:

Not bad, a little more spoken word than I'd prefer but dope nonetheless.

UK rap always makes me piss myself laughing, thanks for this

I didn't even press play on this I'm not even gonna lie to you brother lol

Hey, you stole my bit!

what a shame, what a pity

I stole it 4 da trap.

Y’all shutup and stop this is supposed to be a anti-music originality hate post

Same here. It just stopped at the late 90's and almost everything that came later sucks.

Wow, that's a spicy take.

yeah but even since then it's grown in stature and popularity

yeah plus people literally always been saying this same **** about hip hop.

Old school fans were saying this **** about 90s era gangster rap at the time.

Personally i think the 90s was the golden age of hip hop but that's based on my personal taste

But hip hop rn is undoubtedly more diverse and interesting than it was 10-15 years ago imo

I don't know, I think hip-hop has been taking over since The Chronic came out. My music memory goes back to like 1994 or 1995 and hip-hop or hip-hop adjacent pop/r&b was the most popular thing on the top 40 station in Minneapolis. If anything, I feel like hip-hop hit it's peak of popularity in like 2005 or something during the height of the bling era when Kanye West and Eminem used to get all of the awards and accolades and sell the most albums of anybody else and it's leveled out since then.

I listen to classic hip hop. I know abt PM Dawn ffs lol. But then you think about how big artists like Travis Scott and Kanye have gotten in the public vernacular, playing superbowls and **** like that not that it wasn't popular before, but idk there's more people on the earth now than there was then and hip hop seems more ubiquitously in the popular culture now

Tbh the main reason it wasn't in the SB back then is because when Bush was president, there was this huge push to cater everything to boomers and after the whole Janet Jackson thing they moved away from keeping the show hip and started going more conservative. Hence, the classic rock halftime shows.

MC Hammer sold 10 million records or some**** based off one single like 30 years ago lol

None of the top selling albums since have done much better than that.

Good video relevant to thread topic

By now hip hop is an umbrella as wide as rock: something for everyone.

This is the stuff that I enjoy: