The Future of Music After The Rap Craze - Possible iterations of Post Rap

[spigot the bear]

We all know the predominant genre in today's music is rap. The billboards are dominated by it, it has a shitton of (newly emerged) subgenres (cloudrap etc.), and EVERYONE who wants to get into music from another form of entertainment starts out with a diss track or a mixtape. Even though the genre is now way oversaturated, its still hard to deny the really good albums that come once a while (ironically Saturation I and II are one of the greatest examples for his). With its goods and its bads it looks like its going to stay on top of the industry for at least 2-5 years. But as we all know the only thing that doesn't change is the change itself, so when eventually people get bored of cliches of Rap and start looking for new alternatives just like what happened with Rock, Punk and Grunge how will Post-Rap sound like? What do you think its aesthetics will be like?

 

[A Hot Potato]

We all know the predominant genre in today's music is rap. The billboards are dominated by it, it has a shitton of (newly emerged) subgenres (cloudrap etc.), and EVERYONE who wants to get into music from another form of entertainment starts out with a diss track or a mixtape. Even though the genre is now way oversaturated, its still hard to deny the really good albums that come once a while (ironically Saturation I and II are one of the greatest examples for his). With its goods and its bads it looks like its going to stay on top of the industry for at least 2-5 years. But as we all know the only thing that doesn't change is the change itself, so when eventually people get bored of cliches of Rap and start looking for new alternatives just like what happened with Rock, Punk and Grunge how will Post-Rap sound like? What do you think its aesthetics will be like?

Still shit.

 

[Golly]

We're going to cycle back to monophony. Best brush up on your latin. The Top 40s are going to be nothing but mass-produced mass material for the masses. Maybe we'll get a lute song or two on courtly love.

 

[Pointandlaugh]

This decade has produced the most manufactured garbage in music history. Pop music had some integrity early 2000's but later faded to more auto tuned, computer made music.

Hip hop is more autistic than ever before, especially trap music.

Dance and Electronic music will be still popular. It will evolve into more bad subgenres.

More sampling than ever before since people are lazy to be creative.

 

[Somsnosa]

the only thing that seems to keep mainstream competition with american rap are latin pop songs. They were everywhere this summer. It's quite interesting

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Static.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

The new cool music is usually a backlash against what was popular, so, I dunno, French chansons?

Rap has its good side. You could easily argue it's some sort of modern poetry movement, an extention of beat poetry over time. Sadly, most of it is guns, bitches, bongs and bling shit and it's boring as fuck.

The very best thing about rap is the hilarious videos, however. Oh my god, the posing, the hand-flapping. Grown-assed men doing the 'shuffle about at the edge of the dancefloor at the club trying to look cool but not actually dancing' thing. More handwaving (what's with the handwaving? All I ever get from it is that it's about this big and it crosses over). Smoke a fag (ow it's in my eyes, scowl), drive a car (Simon, are you lost again? I told you to take a left there!), dork about in a car park while girls in bikinis look bored. Semper Fi, rap videos. Making gangstas look ridiculous since the beginning of the 90s.

 

[Yaoi Zowie]

Hard to say what the future will be for sure, but anyone thinking it will get less electronic is wrong imo. New music emerges through a combination of counterculture and people trying to do things that have never been done before. Musical structure has been deeply explored for centuries, and the only way to make something "new" is to make weird shit that's completely unapprochable and incompatible with pop sensibilities. Synthesizers and other digital music tools allow exploration in timbre in a way that is unfeasible with acoustic instruments. As there seems to be a lot of exploring left to be done in that field, with new software tools being created constantly, new genres will continue to be made through people experimenting with sounds.

I do believe the political pendulum swinging to the right in the upcoming generation will inform what's counterculturally cool in the future, in the way that I think our generation's self-loathing of white culture and exhaltation of black culture made pretending you grew up in Compton cool. Maybe that will take form in new folk-influenced genres.

 

[Lioness]

Synthwave, baby.

 

[Positron]

Something low-effort and slutty. Plus ça change.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

You could easily argue it's some sort of modern poetry movement

Voltaire cries erry tim

 

[IV 445]

I can rap. I put my work boots in the dryer yesterday and yelled “FUCK” every 5 seconds

 

[SregginKcuf]

I can't stand Gangsta Rap. It's uncreative and pathetic.

I prefer rappers who don't say "nigga" every 2nd line.

 

[CIA Nigger]

how will Post-Rap sound like? What do you think its aesthetics will be like?

 

[Medicated]

Hard to say what the future will be for sure, but anyone thinking it will get less electronic is wrong imo. New music emerges through a combination of counterculture and people trying to do things that have never been done before. Musical structure has been deeply explored for centuries, and the only way to make something "new" is to make weird shit that's completely unapprochable and incompatible with pop sensibilities. Synthesizers and other digital music tools allow exploration in timbre in a way that is unfeasible with acoustic instruments. As there seems to be a lot of exploring left to be done in that field, with new software tools being created constantly, new genres will continue to be made through people experimenting with sounds.

I do believe the political pendulum swinging to the right in the upcoming generation will inform what's counterculturally cool in the future, in the way that I think our generation's self-loathing of white culture and exhaltation of black culture made pretending you grew up in Compton cool. Maybe that will take form in new folk-influenced genres.

 

[Wesley Willis]

 

[Clownfish]