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BigBangStan
Member Since: 5/27/2016
Posts: 689
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Post #1
Hip Hop and Rap taking over
What do you think about the sudden hip hop and rap slayage in the top 10.
Diarrhoea
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 39,572
Post #2
Yes, oh no
SebaMonster
Member Since: 6/2/2012
Posts: 37,284
Post #3
Wasn't Closer just #1 for 12 weeks?
That's mainstream Pop.
Either way, I'm glad Urban is getting bigger.
Bey_Rihstan
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 34,846
Post #4
Idc because urban/r&b/rap has always been better than pop lmao!
Taste of Honey
Member Since: 12/3/2010
Posts: 19,759
Post #5
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Originally posted by
SebaMonster
Wasn't Closer just #1 for 12 weeks?
That's mainstream Pop.
It's really as mainstream(in place of several better words I don't want to say) as you can get.
St. Charles
ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 1/3/2014
Posts: 11,976
Post #6
Pop is not dying wyd? Pop literally can't die because it's defined by music that is designed mainly to be popular. That type will always exist.
Shizuka
Member Since: 2/5/2014
Posts: 3,371
Post #7
I luv urban music so I'm all good
Hugamari
Member Since: 9/12/2012
Posts: 26,389
Post #8
That means white people are listening to it, and they'll appropriate it.
imabadkid
Member Since: 3/24/2012
Posts: 4,192
Post #9
I'm glad. Pop has become so corny... or maybe it just seems corny because I'm older.
Alaska.
Member Since: 8/18/2013
Posts: 8,832
Post #10
Good because pop music has become truly awful. Bring us more 'Starboy' and 'Work' and less 'Can't Stop The Feeling' and Meghan Trainor songs.
Eternium
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 32,982
Post #11
If anything, urban is becoming pop. R&B and Hip-hop are dying and being replaced by acts like Future, The Weeknd, Rae Sremmurd, etc.
Urban hasn't been a thing since the mid-2000s and now Juju On The Beat is LITERALLY dancing on its grave.
Yndda
Member Since: 5/27/2016
Posts: 13,482
Post #12
urban music has always been huge
and no mainstream pop will never die
giRLbye.
Member Since: 4/16/2011
Posts: 3,776
Post #13
its incredible...urban music has always been better than pop & it's about time that it starts getting the attention it deserves again
Eóghan Scherzy
Member Since: 10/7/2010
Posts: 17,418
Post #14
Urban music has always taken over. Urban is a very wide spectrum, it never left the top.
Trap music is literally the biggest thing for the last 4 years.
But contemporary R&B for example is truly a dead genre that was once huge.
Eternium
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 32,982
Post #15
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Originally posted by
Alaska.
Good because pop music has become truly awful. Bring us more 'Starboy' and 'Work' and less 'Can't Stop The Feeling'.
Starboy is a Daft Punk and Cirkut song and Work is dancehall
This just goes to show you how dead Urban really is. #Justice4Missy
Nasty Nas
Member Since: 3/22/2012
Posts: 40,939
Post #16
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Originally posted by
Bey_Rihstan
Idc because urban/r&b/rap has always been better than pop lmao!
ALWAYS.
OpenBacardi
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 7,037
Post #17
Looks like 2017 might be another 2004 with urban music dominating the Hot 100, Tinashe will have her Goodies era
Eóghan Scherzy
Member Since: 10/7/2010
Posts: 17,418
Post #18
Quote:
Originally posted by
Eternium
Starboy is a Daft Punk and Cirkut song and Work is dancehall
This just goes to show you how dead Urban really is. #Justice4Missy
Starboy is PBR&B, Work is dancehall. Both are from the Urban spectrum. It's black music.
Barbara
Member Since: 5/27/2016
Posts: 1,304
Post #19
yes plz
St. Charles
ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 1/3/2014
Posts: 11,976
Post #20
Quote:
Originally posted by
Eóghan Scherzy
Starboy is PBR&B, Work is dancehall. Both are from the Urban spectrum. It's black music.
Pop music is basically "black music" too, so what's your point?
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