What caused the downfall of memerap? Back in 2017 there seemed to be a new meme/rapper every other week that would get views in the hundreds of millions.
Artists like Lil Xan, 6ix9ine, Lil Pump, Yung Lean, XXXtentacion all disappeared just as quickly they appeared and no one has taken their place. Post-meme rappers like Sematary still exist but can hardly hold a candle to the height of the genre
Memes get old fast and none of the actual music was good enough on its own to stick around
Uh, it was a meme?
Yeah but back then you had a new meme that would replace the old one and then the cycle would continue on. Then the memes just stopped, did people just get tired of the ironic detachment to music?
the pandemic wiped out any remnant of the 2010s. Billie Eilish was a day late and a dollar short. she was still riding 2010s trends that were about to disappear like those late-appearing hair metal groups like Warrant that got instantly wiped out by grunge.
Because their listeners got tired of hearing a guy rhyme for the 20th time in a song "hentai" and "senpai". And instead started to either hear other genres or hear real hip hop
Is Bladee the last of the first wave meme rappers that is still popular? Can't really think of another. I guess Kanye but he kind of only adapted into memerap when it was popular and then ditched it
Oh wait you mean memerap as in guys that you hear ironically cause they have some funny drama? In that case it's probably because people want to hear well... good music. And if the only thing that you can sell as a musician is a good image but mid tracks then... people forget about you
COVID killed memerap. The whole light hearted fun of joking around in music wasn't serious enough for the situation we all found ourselves in. "Crushed trap" like Reptilian Club Boyz was supposed to be the next wave of memerap but was literally dead in the water by 2020. Sematary and his posse are pretty much the only ones who survived
i mean, big deal. disco and yacht rock were wiped by the recession that began in 1979 and the early 90s recession ended hair metal because surprise, surprise nobody wants to hear a guy on coke urging them to get down and party when they're standing in the unemployment line.
grunge aesthetics and earth tone colors are back. that ultra-garish 2010s vaporwave look is kaput.
>did people just get tired of the ironic detachment to music?
yes. duh.
>like those late-appearing hair metal groups like Warrant that got instantly wiped out by grunge
>2045
>old washed alcoholic Billie appears on a VH1 docu to rant how she wished Wish You Were Gay never existed
Imagine the stench
they look like pooftahs
I don't think they smell any worse than Lil Pump or Billie tbqh.
They probably smell good. I don't get people who say this, have you guys never been out in public? People don't tend to smell that much unless they were just working out or just showered and you can smell the shampoo off their hair or their cologne
But "nigga" and "trigga" lives on God bless black people such cutting social commentary and stylistic verve can you even imagine music without them omg
uh huh. that's this decade's new "look." her last album looked like 2010s aesthetics.
Billie undoubtely reeks from her fat rolls.