>check the mainstream charts
>it’s all pop and country
>the only rap that can chart now is a single Kendrick or Drake song
Holy shit how did rap lose mainstream appeal so quickly? It went from complete domination to no one caring anymore

>>126878503 (OP)
yea ok bud

>>126878503 (OP)
most streamed songs of 2025 in the US:

Kendrick Lamar & SZA - Luther 610m
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile 454m
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us 427m
Kendrick Lamar feat. Lefty Gunplay - TV Off 420m
Morgan Wallen - I'm The Problem 348m
Alex Warren - Ordinary 330m
SZA & Kendrick Lamar - 30 For 30 325m
Drake - Nokia 323m
Billie Eilish - Birds Of A Feather 323m
Rosé & Bruno Mars - APT. 316m

I have a theory that each genre gets about 50 years in the mainstream before it dies.
And hip hop turned 50 a few years ago.

another thing was all the new wave young sound cloud rappers dying or going to jail. Rap has to be young, but now you have rap dominated by 40 year old men, kanye is almost 50

rap peaked sales wise around 2017, then covid happened and the music industry itself went under lock down.

there are many factors to the demise of raps popularity and i am glad of it. but i thought they would bring rock back, especially with trump in office. instead we live in a shit world were rap and rock are dead and the only music being made is benson boon, sabrina carpenter and pop country.........eh

>>126878503 (OP)
Most of the criminal outfits funding rap got RICO-ed since the late 2010s.

>>126878503 (OP)
It’s not that rap “lost appeal”. It’s that it isn’t getting pushed as hard anymore because wpop is currently much more effective at furthering the social engineering goals of BlackRock and Vanguard.

>>126880336
>2022
They also got their DEIbucks terminated since.

"First Time?"-Rock music

>>126880317
>rap peaked sales wise around 2017

>2017
>the peak of rap
take that back about 20 years and you're good, zoomer