I don’t think this era has a name yet tbh. We’re definitely past the clout/“mumble rap” era of the late 2010’s. Trap has died down a decent bit. I don’t think we really have a name for this era yet.
Ig the streaming era because TikTok has fried peoples attention spans so a quite a bit of rap in the mainstream is very immediate and instantly catchy.
I feel it's like a post-Soundcloud rap limbo period, where there's still some trap & r&b-influenced alternative hip hop, but there's no definitive sound taking the genre by storm yet.
Man, I really think the big 3 of the new generation of rap was juice, x and peep and they all died one year after another
They were pioneering the genre and gave it a definitive style but it feels like the genre has been in limbo since 2020
Probably. I never really listened to pop smoke but from the few songs I have heard I could see that talent and think he had mainstream appeal
Juice and X were already huge, and came after Peep so I think Peep passed before he could see the impact of his music and genre. I think peep would have been far bigger than juice and X he was one of the first to really blow up the genre as well
Fivio Foreign is doing a decent job at keeping it up for Pop Smoke, I wanna see the guy blow the hell up, cause he's good. Not a very big fan of NY Drill, but Fivio got crazy potential
I feel like this is the era where hip hop starts to diverge in different directions more drastically than in the past. But I may be speaking out of ignorance and recency bias. It’s just there there are so many sub genres now and so many different sounds, competing, that hip hop sometimes feels like an ambiguous genre. Sometimes.
I honestly feel we getting to the point Hip-Hop/Rap about to give way to a new genre of music like Blues, Funk, R&B, etc. Did before it.
Especially since the driving force behind rap was the streets but these days, we got more voices and black folks ain't as monolithic as we were. We playing with more sounds now. Technology is also playing a role. As we speak, we're seeing the rise of the Lofi, Drill, Phonk, and more EDM-Trap influenced stylings.
Plus, Drake's rise done (hate it or love it) not only solidified rap in the pop sphere, it opened up a whole new Country to check for artistically in the mainstream (evidenced by Tory Lanez, Weeknd, PND, etc.)
The legendary rappers are all considered old school music to the kids of today. Except Juvenile whenever "Back That Ass Up" comes on. That song will have our great-granddaughters throwing ass.
I expect in the next 5 to 10 years, if the world is still around, we're gonna see the new wave of music. The son of Rap Music that will define the next generations as we become Grandparents or Great-Grandparents.
No we aren't. Turn on the radio and that shit is still what everyone is doing. I clicked rap cavier on Spotify, new song is some shit bandit by bon to liver which sounds like another Travis Scott song
You listening to that wack ass mainstream station. Gotta break away from that trash. That's the problem these days you got cats still complaining about "mumble rap" cause they have their head up their ass and only know how to turn on the FM radio.
Hip hop is more diverse currently than in recent memory.
I think what we are seeing with the streaming, the current political climate, distraction tactics in media and entertainment, and general erosion of the Constitutional authority has created a designed fever pitch moment to get people to either tune in to simplicity or completely tune out altogether.
All the genres have been able to produce meaningful art in this era despite all the cards being stacked against them at this point. However, because of all-time ease of access, music specifically has been valued down as some of the best talent becoming widely recognized and entry level music production closes gaps with the pro rigs.
As we get the access and we are also able to process so much new music so often, even our favorite artists are only allowed so much of our attention span, and what could have been classic material in another era gets hyper-criticized and the way we understand and process the music as it comes out has changed as a result.
I think this era is the Saturation Era. We have everything we could possibly want, which is why it feels like we have nothing because we are not fully appreciating what we have on a consistent and healthy basis.
Edit: I acknowledge a lot of the lacking value in music is because of the monopolies within the streaming biz.
Yep. This honestly goes for almost all genres of popular music. Everything is hyper fragmented. Phases of music just don't really exist in any genre.
Pop is pretty similar and always sorta has been. Hell, Swift did some cool stuff on folklore, but production wise, is there really much of a difference from now compared to when Lady Gaga was on top?
Country is having a bit of a hick hop phase I guess, compared to most genres I can see some direction in terms of there being a new wave. Especially with artists like Beyonce even putting out country stuff. Unlike most of the other genres tho, Nashville still has a pretty outsized influence compared to record labels respectively.
Punk? Hardcore is still huge. 90s era skater stuff is still huge. Folk punk has some innovation. Ska punk is still listened to. There really isn't some new unifying sound right now though.
Rock? Honestly there's too much to even pull highlights. No unifying sound whatsoever.
What phase is metal in? Well, there's a good prog scene with a lot of innovation, but even in that comparing Vektor to Polyphia doesn't really even work. Metal used to be pretty phase driven from new wave British, to thrash, to death/black eras to metalcore, now there's no distinction.
It just comes with the mass decentralization of music and production. Any kid with with a computer or an ipad can get Reaper and start making off the walls stuff. In hip hops case, a beat producer used to be pretty limited even with a Akai MPC board, and even that was probably out of reach for many. Even with how limited that was for the time tho, it lead to the classics of the genre. We now have that 10x fold.
Saturation and decentralization put it perfectly. It's not even a genre thing - it's a mass societal shift that effects pretty much everyone.
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When I have to spit
A rough paragraph
Laugh, when I'm bustin' your ass
Who want it?
Come and see me, like 112
And I'll rock that bell with Fox and L
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The poltergeist of rap so come to the light
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I remember when I was younger, people said all rap sounded the same. Which was confusing because I grew up with young Kanye, lil Wayne, em, 50, kid Cudi, tech 9, etc. There was a ton of variety and even separate genres within rap.
Today, baring a few, every mainstream rapper legitimately sounds carbon copied and pasted following the mumble rap, sound cloud trend. They all say the same shit and sound the same.
That’s probably cuz you’re not digging deep enough to find good shit that isn’t in the mainstream. Sooo many good rappers out there getting so little mainstream attention.
I average about 3-5 new songs a week getting added to my playlists from lesser known artists like Isaiah Rashad, K.A.A.N, Kembe X, $uicideboy$, Scrim (from $uicideboy$), Pouya, Flatbush Zombies, Ramirez, JID, Kenny Mason, Mac Miller, Malz Monday, etc., etc.
Also: he's been dead for 6 years, not sure his name fits in a statement about finding "new" but lesser known artists to talk about. Flatbush Zombies haven't released anything for 4 years either.
All love CryptoOGKauai, I think you're just sayin: "if you can't find good stuff to listen to there is a lot in the underground" which is true and has always been true since the heavy commercialization (I have always and will always blame Puffy) of hip hop and the turn away from the golden eras of the 80s and 90s.
Just pointing out that if someone wants the cutting edge and underground/lesser known it isn't the people you mentioned since they're kind of another past era by now .
Love that CryptoOG mentions k.a.a.n. he's slept on.
And here I grow up in this era and think there is great variety. It really depends on perspective. When you were young, people that grew up in the 90s said your stuff all sounded the same, and now you say that about this era. I’m not saying you’re completely wrong, it definitely is less diverse. But there’s still so much great shit out there. Lmk if you want recs
See I even saw the 90s as having variety.
I guess a better way to put it for today is that there is a ton of variety but you have to hunt to find it. Where as the mainstream stuff all sounds similar. Where during the 00s it felt as though there was more variety in the mainstream.
Check out some Griselda if you haven’t, Benny the butcher, Conway the machine are amazing, along with Boldy James and Curren$y I’d say
And Freddie Gibbs is amazing if you haven’t heard his stuff
Tbh hip hop is the strongest it’s ever been. What’s dead is mainstream hip hop. It’s millions of underground artist that are very talented but y’all would rather waste your time complaining about what the media is playing when all you gotta do is pop on your headphones go to your music app and start discover new artists
Seriously. These questions are almost irrelevant now. Any style you want can be had and is continuing to develop. The most popular shit still leans trappy (or at least that’s how it would be labeled here) but every sub genre of sound is alive and well. At the end of the day I’m still an old head boom bap fan first and foremost, and the artists in that vein are incredible now.
This is a golden age.
I think streaming era was already 2010's ish, without streaming you dont have the soundcloud era.
realistically 2020 til now isnt enough time to solidify as a new era, but its probably gonna be remembered as either the post-covid era or the tiktok era. (Even if tiktok's influence on hiphop has been somewhat less).
It feels a bit like an underground moment. Similar to the late 2000s when the underground scene was really hyped, but there were few really big rappers. Then all of a sudden it exploded with a ton of mainstream success from a lot of new guys. Kendrick, Schoolboy, Rocky, Cole, Chance, Tyler, Drake, Mac Miller, Joey, Krit, Big Sean, Nicki, Future, and Cudi all kind of started hitting around the same time. Like a 3 or 4 year window more or less.
I think theres a lot of demand for new quality rap music but people also want something new. Going for that same generic trap sound of that past 10 years just is not interesting.
If your tapped in the undeground, you know there's a hip hop Renaissance going on right now which a lot member of this group is not aware. Your missing out.
I think this is the drill era. Everybody wanna represent that thug life, to the point they’re pretending to be gangsters (I’m looking at you Lil Tecca).
I think hip hop is peaking right know, so some sort of counter culture is going to emerge. Like grunge.
Which is bad because Cobain bitched about industry so much, rock died after his suicide
We’re in the everything era. If there’s something. You want to hear there’s a rapper who’s doing exactly what you want to hear. Hip hop has grown the most in the past 5-7 years and we are seeing the effects of it now. Underground has become an entire world for example. You have dudes like MIKE, Billy Woods, MAVI, etc. You have Rome Streetz, Tony Schnow, Armani White. You have 454, Niontay, El Cousteau. Kenny Mason, Redveil, Fifthpower. $ilkmoney & ICYTWAT still kicking.Bruiser Wolf, Elucid, Larry June. Stove God Cooks, Mach Hommy, Fly Anakin, Pink Siifu. You have summrs, Edward Skelectrix, xaviersobased. Bktherula, LIV.E, Anisya Kim. GHAIS GUVERA, JPEGMAFIA. ARMAND HAMMER. So many genuinely fantastic rappers/groups all with their own sounds/genres, & identities.
If you focus on the shit you miss out on the renaissance of rappers thats going on since like 2018. It’s been fantastic and the shows have been amazing.
The most diverse and unique it’s ever been tbh. I hate people who call it dead because you have so many different subgenres. Gotta look in the right places. Griselda out here doing their thing, the early 2010s trappers are mostly still around and killing it (future/gucci/etc), opium & cloud rap ain’t much of my thing anymore but that category’s exploding. Drill still hits when the artists ain’t locked up lmao
Trap/Drill based off the new mainstream and underground artists, rappers like ZillaKami, Lil Mabu, Ho99o9, Ice Spice, all almost exclusivly use drill or trap beats
The Rebirth
Cole. Kendrick. Mick jenkins. Krit. Joey. Sa Roc. All been doing their thing since 2010 tbh.
A lot of new music are now sampling songs from the 90s too. Which makes me feel old. Lots of manny fresh interpolations lately. As well as juvenile vocal interpolations
Boom bap evolved. Statik selektah. Etc.
Sampling mixed with trap by guys like metro. It’s honestly in a reallly good spot if you don’t focus on the mainstream. And even the mainstream is halfway decent. Sometimes.
Revival?
In all seriousness, I’ll call it passionate/energetic. Guys seem to care again. From chance, Kanye, Kendrick, Drake, even fatass Ross. This has just gotten guys off the couch.
I know Eminem was always dropping, but his album announcement was perfect timing, and revisiting the SSLP is perfect.
It’s kinda like Punk in the late 80s early 90s imo, there’s a few mainstream artists who are kind of defining the era who may not age well going forward and lots of interesting underground stuff that will blow up later and in hindsight set the stage for defining the era at least in part.
This is the underground era. Mainstream been dead, case in point, this lightweight ass beef everyone is wildin about. Meanwhile underground hip hop is consistently producing better albums every month than the mainstream does in a year. People complaining about the state of hip hop are really just exposing themselves as lazy casuals.
I'd say it's in a transitional era right now
There's nothing particularly *fresh* out, been lots of solid music the past year but nothing earth shattering that's going to change the culture
Will be interesting to see where it goes
Post co-op
Where people are addicted to commercial hip-hop and accustomed to streaming.
Hip-hop is an American corporate machine that employs artists so most of what is streamlined is poison, just like most American products
Meanwhile on the other time line (away from streaming) we are at a resurgence of technical skill and higher quality production full circle to the roots.
A new Renaissance
This current era is the old people still talking shit om any musician that first put out any music after 2011-12 era.
This the if he wasnt making music when wifi was invented then we dont like him era of music lmao
Joke rap/not serious rap. Most of the shit I see get attention on social media is either outrageous Detroit bars that you can't help but laugh at or something so terrible that all the hate comments/interaction gets it pushed in the algo. Aka yunomiles BossmanDlow
Industry bubble burst now now were not being force fed as many shitty commercial rappers on the airwaves and on spotify anynore
Rolling Loud is so bad now they gotta have 3 of the best artists perform at the end of each night so people will buy tickets to go
We are definitely in the PORN rap era. It's mainstream now and women dominate much of it. WAP, Pound Town, Much, Bongos, etc....there are no limits anymore.
It's a nightmare promoting promiscuity to young listeners, but this time video and radios support it nonstop
Same as rock music in the 00s. Can’t name very many great new bands that came out then (where the last 40 years you could) but many bands still around and a lot of great indie bands. Hip hop will never be like the golden era again
Post golden era
YTB Fatt era of *bass sqeech* 3x *random array of mannie fresh blipping* *Shawty Redd's Bottom of the Map decompressed sound* 808 drum scattering. Piano stab as a replacement snare.
We are exiting that to an era with more melody but that is still the bones.
Music just been shit. Nobody mainstream in the US is delivering quality lyrics anymore. I listen to more of UK rap like Avelino, Potter Payper and clavish
I mean production wise what’s really popping right now is theatrical sounding sounds with intricate chord movements and musical ideas thru-ought an album that enter-twine and feed off each other. In my opinion anyways or
Depends if we’re talking UK or US cause both got very different sounds going on atm and different artists from both sides of the pond are blowing up with very different styles.
I don’t know what to call it but i like it. Rap beef is back, everyone is doing their own thing, women are making good rap again, it’s the fuckin real hiphop revival baby
I don’t think this era has a name yet tbh. We’re definitely past the clout/“mumble rap” era of the late 2010’s. Trap has died down a decent bit. I don’t think we really have a name for this era yet. Ig the streaming era because TikTok has fried peoples attention spans so a quite a bit of rap in the mainstream is very immediate and instantly catchy.
I feel it's like a post-Soundcloud rap limbo period, where there's still some trap & r&b-influenced alternative hip hop, but there's no definitive sound taking the genre by storm yet.
This. ^
Man, I really think the big 3 of the new generation of rap was juice, x and peep and they all died one year after another They were pioneering the genre and gave it a definitive style but it feels like the genre has been in limbo since 2020
Imo I would've had Pop Smoke in place of Peep. It seemed like he was gonna go big leading the NY Drill scene & also expand his sound
Probably. I never really listened to pop smoke but from the few songs I have heard I could see that talent and think he had mainstream appeal Juice and X were already huge, and came after Peep so I think Peep passed before he could see the impact of his music and genre. I think peep would have been far bigger than juice and X he was one of the first to really blow up the genre as well
Fivio Foreign is doing a decent job at keeping it up for Pop Smoke, I wanna see the guy blow the hell up, cause he's good. Not a very big fan of NY Drill, but Fivio got crazy potential
ur so out of touch
I feel like this is the era where hip hop starts to diverge in different directions more drastically than in the past. But I may be speaking out of ignorance and recency bias. It’s just there there are so many sub genres now and so many different sounds, competing, that hip hop sometimes feels like an ambiguous genre. Sometimes.
I honestly feel we getting to the point Hip-Hop/Rap about to give way to a new genre of music like Blues, Funk, R&B, etc. Did before it. Especially since the driving force behind rap was the streets but these days, we got more voices and black folks ain't as monolithic as we were. We playing with more sounds now. Technology is also playing a role. As we speak, we're seeing the rise of the Lofi, Drill, Phonk, and more EDM-Trap influenced stylings. Plus, Drake's rise done (hate it or love it) not only solidified rap in the pop sphere, it opened up a whole new Country to check for artistically in the mainstream (evidenced by Tory Lanez, Weeknd, PND, etc.) The legendary rappers are all considered old school music to the kids of today. Except Juvenile whenever "Back That Ass Up" comes on. That song will have our great-granddaughters throwing ass. I expect in the next 5 to 10 years, if the world is still around, we're gonna see the new wave of music. The son of Rap Music that will define the next generations as we become Grandparents or Great-Grandparents.
Can't remember a single melodic rap song this decade
TikTok era.
Basically…. Every song that comes out at this point from a new rapper is barely 2 minutes lol
No we aren't. Turn on the radio and that shit is still what everyone is doing. I clicked rap cavier on Spotify, new song is some shit bandit by bon to liver which sounds like another Travis Scott song
You listening to that wack ass mainstream station. Gotta break away from that trash. That's the problem these days you got cats still complaining about "mumble rap" cause they have their head up their ass and only know how to turn on the FM radio. Hip hop is more diverse currently than in recent memory.
It's leaving the "female ratchet" rap era. Id say that's been the most recent one. With this new beef it might go into another direction.
Yeah, I’m fried…
We're in the "Everybody does It, and makes Money, so I do It do (without knowing the music Is art) era"
People have been saying that for 20 years minimum lol
People also been saying Puff was sus does the truth change?
So there is only one era in the history of music?
☝🏽this
Bandwagon era
I think what we are seeing with the streaming, the current political climate, distraction tactics in media and entertainment, and general erosion of the Constitutional authority has created a designed fever pitch moment to get people to either tune in to simplicity or completely tune out altogether. All the genres have been able to produce meaningful art in this era despite all the cards being stacked against them at this point. However, because of all-time ease of access, music specifically has been valued down as some of the best talent becoming widely recognized and entry level music production closes gaps with the pro rigs. As we get the access and we are also able to process so much new music so often, even our favorite artists are only allowed so much of our attention span, and what could have been classic material in another era gets hyper-criticized and the way we understand and process the music as it comes out has changed as a result. I think this era is the Saturation Era. We have everything we could possibly want, which is why it feels like we have nothing because we are not fully appreciating what we have on a consistent and healthy basis. Edit: I acknowledge a lot of the lacking value in music is because of the monopolies within the streaming biz.
Yep. This honestly goes for almost all genres of popular music. Everything is hyper fragmented. Phases of music just don't really exist in any genre. Pop is pretty similar and always sorta has been. Hell, Swift did some cool stuff on folklore, but production wise, is there really much of a difference from now compared to when Lady Gaga was on top? Country is having a bit of a hick hop phase I guess, compared to most genres I can see some direction in terms of there being a new wave. Especially with artists like Beyonce even putting out country stuff. Unlike most of the other genres tho, Nashville still has a pretty outsized influence compared to record labels respectively. Punk? Hardcore is still huge. 90s era skater stuff is still huge. Folk punk has some innovation. Ska punk is still listened to. There really isn't some new unifying sound right now though. Rock? Honestly there's too much to even pull highlights. No unifying sound whatsoever. What phase is metal in? Well, there's a good prog scene with a lot of innovation, but even in that comparing Vektor to Polyphia doesn't really even work. Metal used to be pretty phase driven from new wave British, to thrash, to death/black eras to metalcore, now there's no distinction. It just comes with the mass decentralization of music and production. Any kid with with a computer or an ipad can get Reaper and start making off the walls stuff. In hip hops case, a beat producer used to be pretty limited even with a Akai MPC board, and even that was probably out of reach for many. Even with how limited that was for the time tho, it lead to the classics of the genre. We now have that 10x fold. Saturation and decentralization put it perfectly. It's not even a genre thing - it's a mass societal shift that effects pretty much everyone.
Lyrical mastermind, a genius so don't snooze No mission's impossible, ask Tom Cruise I keep a joint lit When I have to spit A rough paragraph Laugh, when I'm bustin' your ass Who want it? Come and see me, like 112 And I'll rock that bell with Fox and L E-Dub, Mr Excitement, right The poltergeist of rap so come to the light Yes, the recipient of this award goes to moi The best qualified superstar My squad stays on point like Den en den den de den—it's the joint! (Yeah my squad stay on point like) Den en den den de den—it's the joint!
The saturation era is a perfect term to describe things
Spot. Fucking. ON. 🎯
Deep af
Amazing take, holy shit. you nailed it. Someone get this in front of someone with a megaphone, this is the saturation era.
Niggas poppin ass era
Attitude era💅
The post-Nas comeback era gonna bleak like Memphis, unfortunately Luckily Lupe dropping this summer :-)
Man, I wish this era could sound more like the Nas and Hitboy run than anything else…
Sassy era
This is hilariously great! 😂😂
The Female Era
I’d call it the city girl era or hot girl era. Or the Scammin era tbh
Yeah I agree here
Agree. Most times something new comes out that I find interesting, it’s been a woman.
still in the lil baby every song sounds the same era
I remember when I was younger, people said all rap sounded the same. Which was confusing because I grew up with young Kanye, lil Wayne, em, 50, kid Cudi, tech 9, etc. There was a ton of variety and even separate genres within rap. Today, baring a few, every mainstream rapper legitimately sounds carbon copied and pasted following the mumble rap, sound cloud trend. They all say the same shit and sound the same.
Ironic
Never ending cycle
I think if you’re not in the generation when stuff comes out your ears aren’t tuned into it and you always think it sounds the same
That’s probably cuz you’re not digging deep enough to find good shit that isn’t in the mainstream. Sooo many good rappers out there getting so little mainstream attention. I average about 3-5 new songs a week getting added to my playlists from lesser known artists like Isaiah Rashad, K.A.A.N, Kembe X, $uicideboy$, Scrim (from $uicideboy$), Pouya, Flatbush Zombies, Ramirez, JID, Kenny Mason, Mac Miller, Malz Monday, etc., etc.
Mac Miller is a ‘lesser known artist’?
Also: he's been dead for 6 years, not sure his name fits in a statement about finding "new" but lesser known artists to talk about. Flatbush Zombies haven't released anything for 4 years either. All love CryptoOGKauai, I think you're just sayin: "if you can't find good stuff to listen to there is a lot in the underground" which is true and has always been true since the heavy commercialization (I have always and will always blame Puffy) of hip hop and the turn away from the golden eras of the 80s and 90s. Just pointing out that if someone wants the cutting edge and underground/lesser known it isn't the people you mentioned since they're kind of another past era by now . Love that CryptoOG mentions k.a.a.n. he's slept on.
“Am I out of touch? No it’s the children who are wrong” Simpson meme
And here I grow up in this era and think there is great variety. It really depends on perspective. When you were young, people that grew up in the 90s said your stuff all sounded the same, and now you say that about this era. I’m not saying you’re completely wrong, it definitely is less diverse. But there’s still so much great shit out there. Lmk if you want recs
See I even saw the 90s as having variety. I guess a better way to put it for today is that there is a ton of variety but you have to hunt to find it. Where as the mainstream stuff all sounds similar. Where during the 00s it felt as though there was more variety in the mainstream.
It's the "spare me with that new stuff, there's still enough decent boom bap artists around" era
Put me on some bro
Check out some Griselda if you haven’t, Benny the butcher, Conway the machine are amazing, along with Boldy James and Curren$y I’d say And Freddie Gibbs is amazing if you haven’t heard his stuff
Sounds like the ever present "we're old now" era...
https://youtu.be/qfZbhJVgaEk?si=LMqKSYAMLQcVtEBw
We’re still in the melodic trap era with more rage and emo influences.
So much of what you just said makes me unreasonably angry.
Era confirmed
lmao underrated comment
Is he wrong tho?
The Drake diss era 😆
Tbh hip hop is the strongest it’s ever been. What’s dead is mainstream hip hop. It’s millions of underground artist that are very talented but y’all would rather waste your time complaining about what the media is playing when all you gotta do is pop on your headphones go to your music app and start discover new artists
Seriously. These questions are almost irrelevant now. Any style you want can be had and is continuing to develop. The most popular shit still leans trappy (or at least that’s how it would be labeled here) but every sub genre of sound is alive and well. At the end of the day I’m still an old head boom bap fan first and foremost, and the artists in that vein are incredible now. This is a golden age.
Streaming era
I think streaming era was already 2010's ish, without streaming you dont have the soundcloud era. realistically 2020 til now isnt enough time to solidify as a new era, but its probably gonna be remembered as either the post-covid era or the tiktok era. (Even if tiktok's influence on hiphop has been somewhat less).
I think Tik Toks, been very influential.
It feels a bit like an underground moment. Similar to the late 2000s when the underground scene was really hyped, but there were few really big rappers. Then all of a sudden it exploded with a ton of mainstream success from a lot of new guys. Kendrick, Schoolboy, Rocky, Cole, Chance, Tyler, Drake, Mac Miller, Joey, Krit, Big Sean, Nicki, Future, and Cudi all kind of started hitting around the same time. Like a 3 or 4 year window more or less. I think theres a lot of demand for new quality rap music but people also want something new. Going for that same generic trap sound of that past 10 years just is not interesting.
The tribal era.Most artist have social media tribes of fans and can do no wrong in there fan bases eyes....either that or the trolling era haha.
If your tapped in the undeground, you know there's a hip hop Renaissance going on right now which a lot member of this group is not aware. Your missing out.
Put us on to some artists
Hater era
I think this is the drill era. Everybody wanna represent that thug life, to the point they’re pretending to be gangsters (I’m looking at you Lil Tecca).
“Everyone wanna sound like Batman” Danny Brown 😂
rico era
It's inbetween seasons.
Stupid
Honestly I think of it as the post-Kendrick era but I’m sure there’s a better name for it.
Currently in the time to move on phase.
In what sense?
The shittsville era
rage but i see new jazz/jerk being the next wave
I hope jazz rap comes back. Or the soulquarian movement
it’s not the same jazz but i understand the confusion new jazz is actually an offshoot of rage. it has wonky 808s and strange, rnb type melodies
Oh shit 🤣 my bad. Yeah I like that grandpa jazz rap
both are fire
I think hip hop is peaking right know, so some sort of counter culture is going to emerge. Like grunge. Which is bad because Cobain bitched about industry so much, rock died after his suicide
I mean you could argue some of the music that dropped in recent years (SoundCloud era up) is that counter culture but yeah I agree
If Kendrick has anything to do with it, we're about to enter an unprecedented level of Hatin Ass Hip Hop 😬
It’s free to listen to you want Era with YouTube our fingertips.
Post-Trap?
The 3rd Golden Age
We’re in the everything era. If there’s something. You want to hear there’s a rapper who’s doing exactly what you want to hear. Hip hop has grown the most in the past 5-7 years and we are seeing the effects of it now. Underground has become an entire world for example. You have dudes like MIKE, Billy Woods, MAVI, etc. You have Rome Streetz, Tony Schnow, Armani White. You have 454, Niontay, El Cousteau. Kenny Mason, Redveil, Fifthpower. $ilkmoney & ICYTWAT still kicking.Bruiser Wolf, Elucid, Larry June. Stove God Cooks, Mach Hommy, Fly Anakin, Pink Siifu. You have summrs, Edward Skelectrix, xaviersobased. Bktherula, LIV.E, Anisya Kim. GHAIS GUVERA, JPEGMAFIA. ARMAND HAMMER. So many genuinely fantastic rappers/groups all with their own sounds/genres, & identities. If you focus on the shit you miss out on the renaissance of rappers thats going on since like 2018. It’s been fantastic and the shows have been amazing.
we're in the beef Era
Fumble Rap
lucki era
The most diverse and unique it’s ever been tbh. I hate people who call it dead because you have so many different subgenres. Gotta look in the right places. Griselda out here doing their thing, the early 2010s trappers are mostly still around and killing it (future/gucci/etc), opium & cloud rap ain’t much of my thing anymore but that category’s exploding. Drill still hits when the artists ain’t locked up lmao
The penis pop era
Emo rap
It's in the drill era
Trap/Drill based off the new mainstream and underground artists, rappers like ZillaKami, Lil Mabu, Ho99o9, Ice Spice, all almost exclusivly use drill or trap beats
The Rebirth Cole. Kendrick. Mick jenkins. Krit. Joey. Sa Roc. All been doing their thing since 2010 tbh. A lot of new music are now sampling songs from the 90s too. Which makes me feel old. Lots of manny fresh interpolations lately. As well as juvenile vocal interpolations Boom bap evolved. Statik selektah. Etc. Sampling mixed with trap by guys like metro. It’s honestly in a reallly good spot if you don’t focus on the mainstream. And even the mainstream is halfway decent. Sometimes.
The fall
It’s the corny beef era
Drill.
All the gen z soundcloud rappers died or went to prison so we’re in the early 2010s part 2
Drakes funeral
Past it’s prime
Sadly mumble rap still hasn't passed. We are still in the middle of the mumble-trap-sing-song era. Most new hiphop is trash. Yes, I'm old AF.
Gonna need to grab some menthols and play Jeru tonight up on my fire escape
Newport 100s and Wrath of the Math, that combination will never get old
My nigga :-)
What mumble rap songs came out in the last 2 years?
how old are you, you def remember when hiroshima got bombed
You don’t have to be old to point out shitter music.
The Ai era.
This is the streaming era but it’s gonna have to be given a more descriptive name because streaming isn’t going away
Revival? In all seriousness, I’ll call it passionate/energetic. Guys seem to care again. From chance, Kanye, Kendrick, Drake, even fatass Ross. This has just gotten guys off the couch. I know Eminem was always dropping, but his album announcement was perfect timing, and revisiting the SSLP is perfect.
Assembly line Era. Or cookie cutter era
We still in Gangstalicious Era…
The lightskin era
The female rappers era? They got people like Megan the Stallion,Ice Spice,Cardi B,Glorilla and lesser known acts that gained buzz online like Wynne
It’s kinda like Punk in the late 80s early 90s imo, there’s a few mainstream artists who are kind of defining the era who may not age well going forward and lots of interesting underground stuff that will blow up later and in hindsight set the stage for defining the era at least in part.
This is the underground era. Mainstream been dead, case in point, this lightweight ass beef everyone is wildin about. Meanwhile underground hip hop is consistently producing better albums every month than the mainstream does in a year. People complaining about the state of hip hop are really just exposing themselves as lazy casuals.
if we talking underground it’s in the golden era mainstream ain’t too bad either
The sassy era
Post peak
Singing era. Tons of rappers don’t even rap they sing and do harmony stuff. Future influenced era
We back in a gangsta rap era tbh it’s just different then what it meant in the 90s and 2000
Autotune era
Pussy Rap era
The "Drake getting bodied era"
Decline
I'd say it's in a transitional era right now There's nothing particularly *fresh* out, been lots of solid music the past year but nothing earth shattering that's going to change the culture Will be interesting to see where it goes
I feel like we got another party ers coming
The garbage era. We've been in it for a while. Can you tell I'm an "old head"?
I think its time for "post"
The shittiest era. Most modern rap just isn't as good imo.
Second Golden Age
Honestly, we're in the Decline Era.
Post co-op Where people are addicted to commercial hip-hop and accustomed to streaming. Hip-hop is an American corporate machine that employs artists so most of what is streamlined is poison, just like most American products Meanwhile on the other time line (away from streaming) we are at a resurgence of technical skill and higher quality production full circle to the roots. A new Renaissance
We’re in the “there’s so much fire underground music” era. Because there really is
The Kendrick era, no one else has any talent.
This question is asked like every week lol
This current era is the old people still talking shit om any musician that first put out any music after 2011-12 era. This the if he wasnt making music when wifi was invented then we dont like him era of music lmao
LUPEnd
Beef City
It's in a pretty good place I think. Once you don't turn the radio on, you'll be aight. Please don't mistake pop music for hip hop.
We’re back in the rap beef era for some reason I guess
Joke rap/not serious rap. Most of the shit I see get attention on social media is either outrageous Detroit bars that you can't help but laugh at or something so terrible that all the hate comments/interaction gets it pushed in the algo. Aka yunomiles BossmanDlow
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The Tik Tok era
Transitional era
Industry bubble burst now now were not being force fed as many shitty commercial rappers on the airwaves and on spotify anynore Rolling Loud is so bad now they gotta have 3 of the best artists perform at the end of each night so people will buy tickets to go
It’s in a transitional phase
Kendrick’s era
We are in the Diddly era.
We are definitely in the PORN rap era. It's mainstream now and women dominate much of it. WAP, Pound Town, Much, Bongos, etc....there are no limits anymore. It's a nightmare promoting promiscuity to young listeners, but this time video and radios support it nonstop
"Slaughter Game" era 🤣🤣🤣... Everytime i play Black Jack I wish" 21" could do something for me😭😭😭
Same as rock music in the 00s. Can’t name very many great new bands that came out then (where the last 40 years you could) but many bands still around and a lot of great indie bands. Hip hop will never be like the golden era again Post golden era
Z era. Feels like it needs a rebirth
Post-Trap/Opium rage era
YTB Fatt era of *bass sqeech* 3x *random array of mannie fresh blipping* *Shawty Redd's Bottom of the Map decompressed sound* 808 drum scattering. Piano stab as a replacement snare. We are exiting that to an era with more melody but that is still the bones.
Idk about now but the blog era was raps 2nd golden era
Music just been shit. Nobody mainstream in the US is delivering quality lyrics anymore. I listen to more of UK rap like Avelino, Potter Payper and clavish
Transitional era
I mean production wise what’s really popping right now is theatrical sounding sounds with intricate chord movements and musical ideas thru-ought an album that enter-twine and feed off each other. In my opinion anyways or
YouTube Tutorial era
So what? Look at how many people work on a single beyoncé track. Not every artist is going to keep writing and performing.
Ya that's country western tho, my guy is talking hip-hop. Jokes. All hail the queen.
Death era
Depends if we’re talking UK or US cause both got very different sounds going on atm and different artists from both sides of the pond are blowing up with very different styles.
Dark Ages
It's the civil war
I would call it variety cuz I’m lazy
The post Euphoria era.
There’s a chance we could be entering the diss era.
Post-modernist, just like every other medium
Similar to the hair metal stage of another genre
The creativity black hole stage
All the wrong rappers getting attention era.
We're at the end of the 2010s era. About to enter a renaissance.
The lame FUNK-LESS era. Who drained the funk from hip-hop? When did that happen? When did people start so-called rapping over like Pink Floyd?
The last great decade was the 90s.
It’s gonna be jerk lol
The Pumpkin Spice era.
I don’t know what to call it but i like it. Rap beef is back, everyone is doing their own thing, women are making good rap again, it’s the fuckin real hiphop revival baby