Why is sounding identical to another artist more acceptable in rap?
Like, in rock music, Greta Van Fleet apes Led Zeppelin’s sound, and they get made fun of for it. In rap, you basically have three-four different sounds, and every rapper neatly falls into their category. There are hosts of rappers who sound identical to one another. They even have the same names, Lil Peep, Lil Wayne, Lil Pump, Lil Tay, Lil Pimp, Lil Xan, Lil Thug, Yung Peep, Yung Wayne, Yung Pump, Yung Tay, Yung Pimp, Yung Xan, Yung Thug, etc. etc. etc.
Why is this generally considered okay in rap? What makes the culture so different?
Why is sounding identical to another artist more acceptable in rap?
Dylan Martinez
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Ryder Bell
>They even have the same names, Lil Peep, Lil Wayne, Lil Pump, Lil Tay, Lil Pimp, Lil Xan, Lil Thug, Yung Peep, Yung Wayne, Yung Pump, Yung Tay, Yung Pimp, Yung Xan, Yung Thug, etc. etc. etc.
Retarded take but there is an element of truth to your ststement. I think zoomers dont listen to rappers strictly for their music but also their personality, so the similarities in music are made up for by their individual actions.
Cameron White
None of the artist you mentioned sound even remotely as similar to each other as Greta Van Fleet sounds like Led Zeppelin.
Owen Bennett
that's true for most popular genres
Blake Williams
>What makes the culture so different?
why create when you can steal
Anthony James
I dont see your point. Plenty of blues and rock artists sound similar too, no one cares.
Angel Hughes
>Lil Peep, Lil Wayne, Lil Pump, Lil Tay, Lil Pimp, Lil Xan,
Who was the first "Lil" and why did this become a trend.
Caleb Richardson
>Why is sounding identical to another artist more acceptable in rap?
The opposite is true. Rock had cover bands, which don't exist for rap
Alexander Hall
how many punk bands sound exactly the same?
Carter Cruz
>no one cares.
Absolutely false. Sounding identical to another rock star could end your career. Sounding identical to another rapper won’t even get you criticized
Luis Anderson
All of them, but punk is essentially rap.
Punk is to rock as rap is to soul/funk/r&b
An industry for talentless hacks to make their derivative sludge, piggybacking off better music genres. The posturing, the style over substance, the brainlet politics, punk is to rock as rap is to soul/funk/r&b
Mason Butler
Holy shit retard, you're comparing a band playing something made by someone else to all those tens of thousands of dorks that play the same exact pentatonic scale blues licks and all sound indistinguishable whenever they improvise.
Brayden Peterson
People are gonna say x rapper sounds like y rapper and the guy is gonna live in his shadow if he doesn't differenciate himself
Anthony Sullivan
Cochise to Playboi Carti, Playboi Carti to Uno the activist is a better example
Brody Sanders
Kendrick, Migos, and virtually every rapped since 2014 sound identical.
Michael Thompson
Rapper y sounds like rapper x and nobody cares
Rapper z sounds like rapper y
Rapper a sounds like rapper z
And then rapper x dies at like 22 years old (gets shot), and people go “we lost a real. The Kurt cousin of this generation. His sound was so unique and influential.”
And then rapper y dies at like 22 years old (gets shot), and people go “we lost a real. The Kurt cousin of this generation. His sound was so unique and influential.”
And then rapper z dies at like 22 years old (gets shot), and people go “we lost a real. The Kurt cousin of this generation. His sound was so unique and influential.”
And then rapper a dies at like 22 years old (gets shot), and people go “we lost a real. The Kurt cousin of this generation. His sound was so unique and influential.”
Ethan Nelson
It's pretty common in metal
It's called X band worship, not necessarily seen as a bad thing either
Lincoln Gonzalez
It isn't. The majority of dadrock sounds the same
Gavin Hall
Soul/r&b mogs rock, bad comparison
Nicholas Long
Examples
Isaac Rogers
Kevin Rivera
>rock
Nicholas Johnson
That’s a perfect example, many people have remarked on the fact that Elton John and Billy Joel sound the same. Its brought up all the time in discussions of either one of them.
In rap, everyone sounds the same and it’s not even remarkable. Nobody even cares to bring it up
Michael James
Jonathan Brown
Because black people are an opressed minority, so they get a pass. Whypipo, in the other hand, are all privileged, so it's okay to make fun of.
