20 years from now SoundCloud Rap will be considered as culturally significant as punk

20 years from now SoundCloud Rap will be considered as culturally significant as punk.

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Not if we manage to destroy the rampant corruption in the music industry and media.

You're right, and I fucking hate that you're right.

See, it would have been threatening to the music industry had it not been swooped up by the industry circa 2017.

ok finn

Finn?

>muh xans muh lean muh Jordans
Yes, as “significant” as punk.

20 years from now listeners of Soundcloud rap will be dead or boomers and 2040 zoomers will make fun of it and the old people who then listened to it

Ghostmane is dope but the rest I don't really know shit about

it’s already there

dont know half these dudes

Two things:

1. Most punk rock was also about sex, drugs, and partying.

2. They brag about doing antidepressants and opioids because they have money now, and those meds are expensive. It's standard braggadocio.

who are all the people in the pic?

Denzel Curry, XXXTentacion (RIP), Ghostemane
Bones, Xavier Wulf, Slug Christ
Lil Yachty, 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert
Lil Peep (RIP), Lil Pump, Rich Brian

I know this is bait but I'll bite. Soundcloud rap isn't as significant as punk because there's no defining sound, the phrase "soundcloud rap" just refers to underground rap thats released on a specific platform. there will never be "post-soundcloud rap" because there's no genre to expand upon, its just a label

Actually, it does have a distinct sound:
>heavy distorted 808s
>"creepy" synths
>darker or more mellow atmosphere
>vocal distortions
>triplet flows and/or autotuned, melodic rapping

rich chigga*

I totally agree. Because just like punk, 90% of it is fucking garbage that nobody will remember or hold in high regards.

That’s just trap.

Finn McKenty is a punk Youtuber who thinks that Soundcloud rap and emo rap is the future of punk.

Interesting.

And he's not wrong. SoundCloud Rap is, like it or not, anti-establishment, DIY, and rebellious, in both theory and practice.

The only artists in that pic signed to majors are Yachty, 21, Uzi, and Pump.

Carti is signed to Interscope

That's not Carti in the pic, that's Xavier Wulf.

literally who

so in 20 years it will still be unlistenable garbage that boomer hipsters pretend to like.

Since when is Sephiroth a soundcloud rapper?

That image needs to be expanded to include Carti, Kodak, Juice WRLD (RIP), and Trippie.

Retard

He frequently collaborates with Bones and was a part of Raider Klan with Curry and SGP.

no one has been crossed off this edgelord pic in like 2 years OP, just give up

punk isnt all that culturally significant

Because almost all of the rappers depicted are sober now, except for Slug who must be on God's side because I have no clue how he hasn't OD'd and died yet.

SoundCloud rap is incredibly significant, but not in the way OP thinks. It's not so much the content of the music that's important, but how the music is consumed. That being, in the post-internet age pop music primarily appeals to niches. You saw this begin in the early 2010s with meme rap like Danny Brown and Kreayshawn. Then, when music streaming became a thing a few years later you saw a whole slew of outsider viral hits which only blew up due to being associated with memes or certain demographics which would stream them over and over. The era of the big epic "universal" pop star who appeals to everyone is over, now we've reached a period where major labels are going to create more novelty acts whose appeal is only meant for a specific target audience.

We shall peep on

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RIP Gus. See you in Valhalla...

None of these are soundcloud rappers anymore.

Post some actual soundcloud rappers like Xanman, Sebii, and Sybyr

They all started off on SoundCloud.

But they don’t represent soundcloud anymore

Look, I hate the huge amount of absolute trash as much as the next guy, but it's hard to deny that soundcloud gives a lot of people the ability to get their stuff out there. I'd be lying if I said that was a 100% bad thing and soundcloud gives someone who has good ideas a platform to make something of themselves. If it happens or not is up in the air, but I can see it becoming something big if talented people start getting found and make their names on the website.

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To add: I highly doubt in 20 years from now most of these artists will be remembered. X will certainly be remembered, Uzi will be remembered, Carti may be remembered, Denzel will be remembered, 21 may be remembered, Juice will only be remembered because he charted so high, but what will truly be remembered is how their success stories signified a move from "traditional" album sales and radio play to streaming and "viral" hits. This could also be why all the artists I've name-dropped above (with the exceptions of X and Juice given their deaths) have all made (paradoxical) efforts to make very good albums (Die Lit, TA13OO, I Am > Was, EA, etc.) despite streaming being infamous for destroying the value of the album.

21s not a soundcloud rapper u shitter

He's part of that whole scene though.

He never had a SoundCloud. He got big after teaming up with Metro Boomin.

Punk is a primary example of first-as-tragedy-then-as-farce. It literally died by 1979 and all attempts to re-create that momentum have been lame.

I can't wait to see old fogies jamming to Gucci Gang.

More than this there isn't much physical material tied to it. It does influence fashion though so who knows

Ok pretend I said 2010s hip hop

Slug hasn't been crazy with drugs for a while now

t. never seen contemporary street fashion

20 years from now SoundCloud Rap will be still considered as crap and the rappers will be still considered as niggers.

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>significant
sure buddy, ever heard of kris kross

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I can’t name a single person in that image.

probably. it will still be bad though

You know I'm curious who made this image because the art style seems familiar to me.

t b h 2/12 isn't that bad, especially for rappers and it's been years since that image was made.

I only know the dead ones. Hopefully in due time I'll know more.

He's also like 40 and used to shill scene shit.

so exactly like what happened to punk