Why do rappers often lose relevancy after hitting 30?

Drake's run = 2009-2016
Lil Wayne's run = 2004-2012
Many such cases, very sad.

>Lil Wayne's run = 2004-2012
i think most people will agree that his run ended in 2009
6 foot 7 foot was his last good song

Sorry 4 the Wait was aight (circa 2011)

because they no longer speak for the current youth

So what do old black people listen to?
Foo Fighters makes a killing from Gen X dads.

This. A 30 year old may as well be 100 to the 15 year old primary rap/hip hop demographic.

>So what do old black people listen to?
insufficient data. most black people die before they hit 40

Carter 4 was an event. 2011 at least.

RnB. there's an occasional gem there

Because every single rapper's career peaks in their 20s. Their first or second album is their best, they become commercially successful before 25, and then they lose their hunger and put out increasingly disappointing albums until falling into a cycle of retiring every couple of years and putting out a few features in the meantime. When your career peaked at 18 or 20 it's hard to maintain your relevancy for another decade and a half.

name a rapper with good releases in 3 consecutive decades
protip: you can't

Big Boi

Masta Ace

Got em

Ghostface Killah
Black Thought
Jay Z
Q Tip

nice dubs. if tyler the creator puts out a really good album in the 2020's, he'll have
>Bastard (2000's)
>Wolf, Flower Boy (2010's)
>new album (2020's)

so it's definitely possible.

Do the Beastie Boys count?

I don't see why not

unironically eminem

Juicy J/three six/da mafia 6ix

Danny Brown did the opposite.

your first album is on your timeline, your second on the record label's

Rakim

I've heard it as you have your whole life to make your first album, and 1-2 years to make your second.

tfw future was like 32 when he released the goat trap album

What? Nah, people just get bored of them over time is all. Future was probably the biggest rapper of 2017, and nobody heard of him before his 30s.

Because the pop industry slowly stops caring about you by the time you hit 25.

damn, I had no idea he was over 30

>Lil Wayne's run = 1999-2012
ftfy

Rap is super ageist and has no respect for older acts.
Its not as bad as pop music but its still pretty bad.
In rock music they treat older legends like gods.

Common
90s: (Resurrection, One Day It'll Make Sense)
2000s: (Like Water For Chocolate, BE)
2010s: (Black America Again)

Rap is also homophobic, misogynistic, materialistic, and racist.

>Lil Wayne's run = 1996-2012
ftfy

most artists make their best stuff in their 20s

people relate more to a poor artist trying to make it through all the strife and issues that poor youth face than a guy who's been rich and so far removed from that lifestyle for years and has lost touch of reality

Hip hop has a fixation on newness and novelty. New slang. New fashion. New production sounds.

Most artists get in and immediately get pigeonhole'd to their sound. Like how the fuck DMX or Waka Flocka supposed to do anything in the past couple years of trap dominance? They're shouty guys. Shouty guys are done for now.

Unless it's a really smart, eloquent and well-read person who listens to a lot of good music, seeing someone over 30 rapping is kind of sad. It's a social stigma, rather than a matter-of-fact.

It's also harder to get grown men than stupid 17 year olds to accept bad record deals

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