Fucking niggers

[Jackson Morris]

fucking niggers
ruining everything

[Jack Nelson]

Good article. I will say though that a good chunk of rappers don’t innovate in the slightest when it comes to lyrics. Hip hop may be able to ‘sound like anything’ but there are a lot of rappers who talk mostly about a) being so high off this ___ b) ‘haters’ c) being the best. In a lot of ways, it’s falling into the same rut lyricly that rock is accused of falling into musically. Who knows what will come next, but hopefully it will include some innovation on all fronts.

[Matthew Reyes]

its correct. too many rock artist take decades to give fans new music and when they do its sub par releases.
even gira has figured that out which is why he usually releases an live album after the studio

mac demarco is probably the hope for *rock music*

[Joseph Perry]

For what it's worth, another thing to keep in mind is that hip hop is a much easier format to innovate with at this point than rock music is. Rock has 30 extra years on hip hop, and has through the history of its existence, pushed/experimented with new ideas at a much higher rate than hip hop (until recently.)

[David Johnson]

thats true but on the grounds of mainstream exposure I'd argue hip hop fans get exposed to "experimental" sounds more often than majority of rock fans did.

[Dominic Martin]

Nigger music is the fucking worst.

[Alexander Brooks]

>mac demarco is probably the hope for *rock music*

so rock is fucked huh

[Brayden Anderson]

existential hip hop is going to be the next wave

[Ian Ross]

look at atrocity exhibition

10x more innovative than any rock album released in the last decade

actual innovative stuff, not post-punk rehashes of thrice worn out rock tropes

[Henry Bell]

I'd say he has the biggest cult following of any rock artist in the last year, comparable to Arctic Monkeys is the 2000's when they were huge.
In all honesty, considering how most popular rap songs, the lyrics take a backseat to the beat, I'm not entirely sure the future looks so great for hip hop itself. If the production is what keeps people coming back, its most likely the world is moving into the direction of homogenized EDM bangers of world music. Something like TNGHT, P.C. Music, or Darq y Freaker, is where I see music heading.
Just look at how popular all those FL studious beat producers are on soundcloud and how cancerous vaporwave has become. Those hardly have lyrics outside of samples but are surfacing into the mainstream slowly. If anything, I'd say its the next logical conclusion to popular music. Aesthetic/eccentric production in completely synthesized, danceable beats