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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
you guys have to remmeber that the lifespan of a rapper is under 10 years. After a decade the entire hip hop culture has moved on, your teenage fans are now having babies, and you lose touch, thereby sucking.
I mean, listen to Fat Joe and whoever's track "All The Way Up" That shit sounds do fucking dated it gets old after like 30 seconds.
Hip Hop stopped being about performances maybe 20 years ago. There is nothing to allow a hip hop act or artist to continue a life of touring and performing, except for those packaged bullshit review shows where Big Daddy Kane comes out and does 20 minute medley of his hits na dthen Onyx does so and then whoever the fuck does too. it sucks.
Like seeing foreigner at the state fair
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Except for Kanye. You might not like most of TLOP, but surely you realize that he's not done making waves, and he's not irrelevant. Indeed, his album was right next to Chance's on every single "Best rap of 2016" list I've seen so far. Dial it back a bit... Was JAY Z still as vital as Kanye when Late Reg and Graduation dropped? Not a perfectly analogous situation, I know, but it's close enough.
But yeah, rap is a losing game over the long haul for 99% of artists. 2 Chainz already sounds very "three years ago," and that's when he started to break. Most rappers just don't have enough creativity in them. They bet on their winning personalities and novelty appeal instead of digging in and becoming involved in the musical element of their profession. You've got to become more than just a flow and a voice to outlast the 10-year mark. Or, y'know, you have to break up or die.
