With this trend, it’s difficult to predict what will come next. It’ll still consist of kids wanting to have fun, who will have Lil Yachty and Lil Uzi as their influencers instead of Soulja Boy and Lil B. So if mumble rap is merely a trend that will expire within 5 years, what’s going to replace it? And will the trend that replaces it ever bring back lyrics to the forefront? I highly doubt it, because while youth is replaced with another set of youth, the characteristics of the group rarely change. Those that have grown up already have their own music, their own identity that was created during their own era. Practically anything new that becomes trendy is created by the youth.
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That can apply to TV shows, movies and even language. Any generation attaches to something that’s a part of its time. That’s why we gravitate so easily towards it. We’re mainly carefree, want to have a lot of fun, and be different.
Mumble rap, for the most part, does represent the current generation. It was for the youth created by the youth who wanted to represent something for themselves. You can date that back as far as the 70s and 80s when punk music and culture emerged. Nothing that’s ‘out the box’ is ever accepted at first. That late blooming of acceptance is normal, though. Now looking back nearly ten years on, the same artists are mentioned as the main influential figures of the new age American rappers. What was the general reception to them? They were ostracised. Its origins probably dates back to ’08 when the likes of Soulja Boy and Lil B emerged. Wiz Khalifa, June 2016, Ebro in the Morning It ain’t no disrespect to the lil homies, they don’t want to rap. So just like any subgenre, it needs its own appropriate name within the near future. Hip hop was founded upon borrowing sounds and it has evolved in the same way. Nor is it merely “trap” music, because rappers like Lil Uzi are using trap production, but they’re not rapping about the trap in the way like a Future or a 21 Savage is. “Mumble rap” sounds like a totally unprofessional label to give to a subgenre. What’s It Even Called?ĭespite the name having caught on, I don’t approve of it.
What’s that subgenre referred to as? “Mumble Rap”įor the first time in the genre’s history, its fundamental ingredient has become its least priority for the successful hip hop artists that have been emerging in the past two years. In recent years a new subgenre has emerged that has, for the most part, disregarded that element. Yet as it has aged the key element to its formula has always remained by its side: lyrics. From boom-bap to gangsta rap to Auto-Tune rap, it’s been through it all. Under that same umbrella there is another internal domination within the genre.Įvery musical genre goes through stages of progression, but hip hop has been the one to evolve the most over the past 40 years. This statistic is merely a small introduction to the overall domination of hip hop on a mainstream level.
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This shift is evident in the charts as well already halfway though the year, four of the 8 number 1’s in America have been rap songs (“Black Beatles”, “Bad and Boujee”, “Humble”, “I’m the One”). That’s crazy to think if you remember how blacklisted the genre used to be outside of the obvious mainstream superstars. For the first time it has become the dominant genre in the US with a 25.1% responsibility of music consumption, surpassing rock music. Rap music is more popular than it has ever been.
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