We are in an era of fast food music; people only put out music that will do well for a month or so and fade into irrelevance.

@Perishade

11 ай бұрын

Ice spice is the Big Mac

@princesslili123

11 ай бұрын

this is factual

@jamiestevens3074

11 ай бұрын

Facts. A lot of music made now is not made for longevity.

@gjokuu

11 ай бұрын

@@PerishadeI’m ngl her music from months ago is still popping

@grahamgregory1450

11 ай бұрын

This is what MF DOOM predicted in 2004.

HipHop is dying because Dontai hasn't released any new music in so long 😔

@TacoTalo

11 ай бұрын

Bro needs to stay out the studio

@JZipher

11 ай бұрын

ratio@@TacoTalo

@Ofrnaxe

11 ай бұрын

@@TacoTaloum no

@PimpHeart

11 ай бұрын

@@TacoTalo ok buddy

@Wreck6965

11 ай бұрын

I was literally gon ask this nigga if he’d ever drop another song

I’ll never understand why people get mad at you for not liking the same type of music they like……

@fckutube2087

11 ай бұрын

You fw young nudy?

@drew5564

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. An opinion is formated and the opinion formers (the internet) becomes psychotic narcassists when it comes to their own opinion about music. like bro just cause you bumpin some shit that you like does Not mean i have to like it as well. atp might as well tell me to live a certain way or get mad about it, at the end of the day i shouldn't give a shit cause i put myself first.

@traplover6357

11 ай бұрын

​@@drew5564but that's how loyal fanbases are made like Carti

@FeminineAroma

11 ай бұрын

@@fckutube2087 The only song I’ve heard of Young Nudy is “Hell Shell” so technically I can’t say I fw his music because I’ve only heard and liked one song 😂 You got any other song suggestions of his?

@__24__

10 ай бұрын

@@traplover6357that’s nothing like how the carti fanbase formed 💀

I used to hate on the old heads for saying music don’t have any meaning anymore but their highkey right. I’ve been listening to so much older shit and alternative music over my rap playlist as of late because it’s all the same and stale to me now. I hope that changes for the better but there really aint a lotta new gen artists I really fw heavily

@jasminenicole001

11 ай бұрын

💯💯

@avgriffin

11 ай бұрын

may be irrelevantbut first of da month has that meanngful vibe of that era

@afroboy18

11 ай бұрын

Mexican OT you'll thank me

@David__J

11 ай бұрын

Exactly it’s like music is becoming soulless

@Teykume

11 ай бұрын

ngl i’ve found some gems though there’s some artist that genuinely still rap with meaning joey bada$$ is a big one MF DOOM even though he’s really not new gen neither is joey but there’s also this other guy named muchi honestly music doesn’t really have meaning anymore like on a heart to heart level that’s why i liked X’s songs he has some music that speaks to you i never doubted the “old heads” cause i was always giving older music a chance feels like new gen music kinda took a step in the wrong direction.

when i hear that hip hop is dying, I think it’s mainly mainstream hip hop that’s dying. this is an art form that can’t die, it evolves and transforms its sound year after year. the underground is really taking over

@nambo1445

11 ай бұрын

Hip hop is probably more diverse than it ever has been and there have been some mind blowing releases in the more underground and alternative scene.

@70s_GenLover

11 ай бұрын

Yall need to just listen to rock from the 90s & 2000s. That's REAL MUSIC

@ProdLucio

11 ай бұрын

@@70s_GenLovereverything is real music stop talking

@BOO00R

11 ай бұрын

Yea that's 100% what they mean cuz that shit is what ppl say sounds the same and isn't diff, but they're right.

@drew5564

11 ай бұрын

underground hip hop is on the rise again, my friend sends me shit that sounds like ken and lonely all the time.

Standing your ground and getting your influence in front of people consistently is the key. Consistency is KING 👑

@drew5564

11 ай бұрын

Growth is fine, the problem lies in the overall look you get from others on your music. you can make music, but at the end of the day if nobody likes how it sounds you'd never pop off. even with consistency. effort is rewarded🤷🤷

blackyspeakz is one handsome mf

@nipplevacuum9270

11 ай бұрын

That forehead tho

@alexzander1142

11 ай бұрын

Gay?

@DatDaDatty

11 ай бұрын

​@@alexzander1142yes

@alexzander1142

11 ай бұрын

@@DatDaDatty wait fr 💀

@DatDaDatty

11 ай бұрын

​@@alexzander1142no

Remember when you couldn't wait for an album to drop? When you could listen to a whole cd without skips? I do. 😢

people in chat - im surprised "blackyspeakz" is black!!! brother ,he's literally blacky... speaks!

not just hip hop but everything is saturated now gaming,music,movies,shows etc

@ssplif5415

11 ай бұрын

U are tweaking Gaming,Tv shows,and Movies are great today what

@durselegion3297

11 ай бұрын

@@ssplif5415U are tweaking

@ssplif5415

11 ай бұрын

@@durselegion3297 u most only watch Marvel and dc because this year has been ah great year for movies and gaming aswell since the year started we been getting hit with peak games

@Intr0vertical

11 ай бұрын

​@@ssplif5415peak games my ass

@demontimen1gga819

11 ай бұрын

@@ssplif5415who tf said anything about marvel and dc?

I’m part of the younger generation and my dad used to play mad Tupac and Biggie , it made me appreciate real music ❤

I’d bring up the point that songs can’t have messages anymore because people don’t have enough time in their lives to act on that message. People are going to want quick dopamine rush songs so they can get through their day to day lives because the cost of living is rising and the work days are getting longer. Music was once something you can sit down and listen to and think about but no one has that time anymore. Most people out there rn got work or school every hour of their life and when they get home to relax they are sleep deprived and sleep. No one is going to be spending 5 minute of their time now listening to a message when they can spend their days more efficiently. I’m kinda fucking up what I’m tryna say but basically the reason ppls attention span is short right now is because we can’t slow down to even think or we fall behind and food is no longer on the table

@iMsOiNsO

11 ай бұрын

Nah I got you and facts…for me I love lyrical music but yes sometimes I just want a hype type of song with a great beat to get my body moving. It’s not dying per say but we are just tired of ANYONE becoming rappers and famous

I think the main reason I started watching your videos is because you were d riding one of my favorite artists tbh

@onomatopoeia300

11 ай бұрын

Lol

@Akbar-co5bq

11 ай бұрын

​@efaze616you new , we here from when tai was in the trenches of his mom's basement

its dying because “hip hop fans” dont even like it themselves. you know how many amazing rappers are still in the trenches and not one of these people complaining are talking about them in the slightest. the only person that killed hip hop if its even dead are hip hop fans themselves

@ohanthedon

11 ай бұрын

thank you for speaking facts. i could list so many great refreshing hip hop artists for mfs to listen and they wouldn’t do it, it’s just easier to say hip hop is dying or it’s dead i guess

@djcage8868

11 ай бұрын

Facts people listen to the same niggas they already didn’t like, don’t branch out, then say Hip Hop is dying because of it

@iMsOiNsO

11 ай бұрын

@@ohanthedonyup….it’s because they don’t choose to listen to actual artist instead of mfkas just in it for money and clout. The women rappers get famous for their bodies and looks and be TRASH and now they are doing the same with the men

@jaydeegreat88

10 ай бұрын

Neva lied

You should really consider listening to artists that collab with The Alchemist a lot. Deadass I've been having the same issue with rap as a whole as you are right now but I recently got put on. I listen to WAY more rap now because Alchemist production is really goated and I can't get enough of it. He drops music on a consistent basis too. Should consider it brother, a good album to start with is Larry June - The Great Escape. Ain't left my rotation since I heard it.

This has been a problem for a while but KZreadrs and companies are still gonna push whatever music is most hype for money so it dont matter

Much love dontai

Bro that first dono was right tho Smino is fire he got his own style too. I get why dontai doesn't care tho everyone says that

Dontai Not wanting too listen to Smino is crazy 😂😂😂

@nicostain1322

11 ай бұрын

Buddy lost his mind 😂😂😂

@Izosu69

11 ай бұрын

Who?

Times are changing and music is always gonna evolve. Some people aren't gonna like it but many will. That doesn't mean the music is now bad or getting stale, it's just evolved and not your taste anymore

@arturoromero951

11 ай бұрын

At least someone has a level head here.

@47halide

11 ай бұрын

i think both sides are correct here. there is an element of people growing up. however. donald glover did a talk at my school, where he said “nobody knows what people want anymore. the industry is at a standstill because there’s no real direction.” COVID really did fuck a lot of things up, and fast food music started because record labels were scrambling to make every last cent they could so they didn’t go under. they saw the success of Eternal Atake, and then started the whole deluxe trend, and releasing 20 songs per LP, etc etc. There was quite a lot of art that was lost in the mainstream. But stuff in the underground is starting to flourish a lot. I see more and more kids that are getting involved with stuff that isn’t considered “mainstream”. things that are more experimental. the industry is shifting but it’ll take time to get it steered in the right direction. think of it like being slapped. there’s that moment where you’re going “what the hell just happened???”. that’s where the industry is at at the moment.

@thedon0516

11 ай бұрын

95% of mainstream music be talked about or remembered in 5-10 years. The hottest and most trendy rappers today don't even sell and now MFs is struggling to sell tickets.

@des_elise

11 ай бұрын

Okay I get that but I genuinely don't understand how people listen to yeat 💀

@brichi3902

11 ай бұрын

Zelooperz is hella slept on. We need less Tom Macdonald and more unique stuff like his

That’s why I love going back in time with music ,The authenticity , passion and detail is unmatched. No matter the genre. And I love songs that are long and the artist just lets the music do what it’s suppose to.

I have noticed something. The artists who are critically claimed and commercially successful had the backing of a bigger artist who cosigned them as a successor. Maybe I'm wrong but Drake, Kendrick, J Cole, Travis Scott, are successors of Lil Wayne, Dr.Dre, Jay Z, and Kanye. That's how they were able to get past the bs of the industry until they dropped an album to let them stand on their own at the top of the game. Right now there is no perfect example of that than Baby Keem. Keem always said how he was richer than his peers before he dropped his album and I believed him. He was getting signed by a person who is not trying to screw him but someone who wants him to succeed and actually wants to pay for his worth. Nobody can also not claim that capitilizing on the comeback on one of the biggest artist for your debut album didn't help. So yeah just wanted to point that out.

dontai should do more videos like this ‼️

@FeminineAroma

11 ай бұрын

I agree 💯

Seen this video a few days ago i like the topics

He’s just speaking facts rn 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️❤️

J cole does have a song like that “Lost Ones” and I LOVE the song.

I almost dropped my food trying to smack my monitor after seeing a Twitch chatter call Dontai "Dante"

Ayyyy hope ur doing great dontai all the way from SOUTH AFRICA CAPE TOWN

I love reading dontais chat in the corner 😂

Dontai bro I remember when u first put frosty song in your intro and that shit went viral and put us on to that nigga mane crazyy memory W 🐐rip bro bro🙏🏾

it makes sense why people don’t take time to make something though, they need to get into a good financial position first so they’ll make music to blow up then drop what they want when they’re bigger

Don't know abt all the weirdos but i personally love the reactions bro ❤

25:54 damn explaining the (well-received) J.Cole track “To Summer, From Cole”, the intro to Summer Walker’s Clear 2

43:08 bro im DYINGG at the chat wtf

Cancel culture definitely has an impact on the industry because people be scared to say anything

There's a lack of soul and creativity, it does all sound the same and instead of a coherent "debate" or whatever you wanna call it, all you get is "old head" or "Who?!" for not liking what's out now. Its fans fault for making these mfs famous. My top 5 is Eminem, Canibus, Black Thought, Big Pun, Nas, and mfs are gonna say "Who" or "Old head ass mf" instead of listening to these amazing artists. IM TYPING AN ESSAY HERE GOT DAMN I NEED TO STOP I just love hip hop with everything I have man

@DJD02

11 ай бұрын

There is soul if you look in the right places and I would argue it’s very creative right now with a lot of rappers bringing elements from different genres u got to tap into the underground instead of listening to some popular songs and basing ur opinion on that especially if u say u love hip hop

@Skizofrenic

11 ай бұрын

there isn't lol yall just listen to any mainstream artist that gets a bit famous cause of his antics like mabu or ice spicee the underground is full of people experimenting and pushing hip hop to its limits, but again, nobody pays them any attention

@iangarcia1585

11 ай бұрын

​@Skizofrenic exactly lol but they're not gonna like this comment (because you're saying facts)

@SeanShunSwayy

11 ай бұрын

@@DJD02 You right I just hate the fact the ones with real talent arent the ones that are "mainstream". I could dig more aswell and find more artists to listen too, its just very hard to impress me anymore but any suggestions?

@slattslattslatt

11 ай бұрын

eminem is mediocre

As a artist I do try to improve and work on my craft but watching simplicity win every day does get discouraging

@dest1ny205

11 ай бұрын

Mix both them, it’d be dope if I listened to Playboi Carti and Kendrick on the same track but they are literally the same dude

luv the vids

As a producer "guess im goin to rnb"

6:45 dontai cookin🙏

My issue is that there are artists that are saying things worth listening to but they sell 30K first week and barley get a track above #20 in the charts.

@ProdLucio

11 ай бұрын

Sales don’t matter

@drew5564

11 ай бұрын

​@@ProdLucio if that's all it took for a rapper to have impressive feats then that wouldnt make sense. Financial is fine, but you're right. sales really dont matter. i think its more of "whos willing to listen" more than "whos willing to pay to listen" situation

@traplover6357

11 ай бұрын

​@@ProdLucioeven the goats like 2pac and Biggie had mainstream appeal. You need to be popping and have something unique to the listeners

@ProdLucio

11 ай бұрын

@@traplover6357 Sales don’t matter

2 of my favorite creators in 2017-18 luv yall

After this video, i randomly searched for Kendrick and N95 came up. And it perfectly fits the narrative god bless!

As a Independent Music Producer I remember beats and lyrics and graffiti art dance art artist was one people gravitated towards all at once Now because majority of artist wants hangout with the wrong crowd get lock up Get out make 1 or 2 good albums either high or drunk hangout with the same people It's like nowadays i say Hip Hop Music has become what graffiti art dance art became a slowly dying media Now it is just movie scores and game soundtracks anime theme songs

We’re in an experimental phase of rap music where people want to try new things in their albums. I feel like it’s going to keep spreading, till we get comfortable with a certain type of experimental music so artists can keep going safely from there, if that makes sense.

@504fireman75

10 ай бұрын

No

It's bothered me for some time now, I realized it gradually getting worse. Songs dont have a soul anymore, theres no more fun, real emotion, stories, passion, it’s all gone. They just make it a formula, not actual music. Especially with these albums. You can listen to almost any older album before the 2010's and it just feels like a project. An album doesn't have to be serious to be art, it just has to have actual human emotion. Also everything has been mad demonic or satanic recently. Like at first it used to be some artists that was slip some stuff in, but they're just so blatant with it now, and music really effects you emotionally, way more than most are aware of. Compare how albums like Wu-Tang's 36 Chambers or My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy feels as a project compared to most rap albums now.

@tristanjansen1876

11 ай бұрын

If you ignore the people that do put emotion into their songs you are right.😂 Even if what you are saying is true; clearly people like it otherwise it wouldn't do numbers.

Chat is so brain dead i swear 😂 i just love how they prove the dude right 32:28

Aye man shout out whoever said Mick Jenkins been goin crazy around 38:00 and on

Ngl it’s really just the mainstream shit - I never realized how many artists are actually closer to the underground category when I really start thinking about it

@railroadforest30

11 ай бұрын

Yeah there are some artists that get a hundred million views on some songs but still considered underground

This is why I love you, Tai ❤for your mind

15:20 😂😂😭 idk y but dis reminds me of og loc on gta san andreads 😭

36:11 that was so good ngl 😂😂😂make that a song

Dontai will never dissapoint to cream us🔥🔥🔥

I have been in the same feeling as you for years bro

The goat watching The goat

Speaking of listening to albums you gotta listen to Noname’s album.. one of the best story tellers I ever heard

Dontai dropped heat during that intermission ngl

tbh i do listen to albums but only when dontai reacts to it 🤣

Also pink tape hit high on charts

I feel like hip hop is doing bad rn lowkey because of the fans I feel like yes we should have high expectations for certain artist and genres but I think it’s gotten to a point where ppl have literally been calling every album mid it hasn’t been one project this year where everybody is happy ppl expect every artist that drops to drop a project the level of Carter III which just isn’t realistic we get greedy and want music from artist but then get mad when artist take 2-3 years to perfect a project on top of that ppl will literally call a project or song mid or even trash but then like it after it’s been on TikTok for a week for example in the video like ice spice it’s kind of ridiculous at this point also even when ppl do try different production and sounds YALL don’t wanna adapt to the sound until a year later yall just call it trash to be honest for example when whole lotta red came out y’all called it trash now y’all call it a classic

@surjay5633

11 ай бұрын

Lmao true same thing been happening with utopia. But the utopia reception went from people saying mid to amazing while wlr went from trash to amazing in terms of public reception.

I got back in my rock era back in 2022 rao been dying for years

wow this what it feels like to be early for an upload for once 😮

I think we are at a crossroads no pun intended ifykyk. hip hop need to open its gates to being not defined by these templates

“She can’t take it” is low-key a bop

Dontai getting up like he cooked the best recipe ever

The forever story been on repeat

Especially on the albums part. People’s attention span is terrible and it’s thanks to TikTok and instagram. I remember buying cds and listening to the whole cd top to bottom and now with TikTok and even KZread shorts, people don’t listen to the whole album anymore and watch the whole video which is crazy

The thing about it - People will see this and still not see through what these artists are pushing and keep listening to em

@tristanjansen1876

11 ай бұрын

Why should they stop listening? I listening to music for the music. Not everyone cares about the message and the emotions. Some people just want to get lit.

@0phwew

11 ай бұрын

Yeah they will stop listening. This shit is getting boring Ong. Got my ass bumping jpop shit like jungkook

That original title was crazy 🤣🤣🤣

Wontai is the definition of keep it real

Unpopular opinion: DRILL SUCKS

@Humbledman632

20 күн бұрын

Drill is terrible

36:00 I need dontai to make more music

Mozzy sleep walking 🔥

100% agree, music hasn’t been as good lately, compared to a couple of years ago

@slattslattslatt

11 ай бұрын

fell off after 2018

@drew5564

11 ай бұрын

And it will never get back that way, things constantly change. if you care a lot about something, gather a group. make new music that sounds like the old music. then it'll come back.

@slattslattslatt

11 ай бұрын

@@drew5564 ur mentally disabled

Bro turned 18 minutes to 43. The Dontai Special

The movie Brown Sugar tried warning us but 🤦🏾‍♀️

24:10 Bruce and Rage say "if it were you, you'd take the money" all the time 💀

Anthony Mackie was playing pac like he was in Malibu most wanted.. "Break yourself fool"

It's sad really, love from a South African bucketeer

Todays Hip Hop era analogy below called “the burger” 1. Hip hop is like a burger from a top down view. Top bun being mainstream its all the same with the occasional standout sesame seeds aka your Kendrick’s and J Cole’s, actually being diff from everyone else. Most people not gone look under that from the top down view cause they don’t care enough but they the same people complaining. 2. Then you got the patty in the middle with the flavor and talented people not in the lime light aka your Smino’s, Saba’s, JID’s etc. They get some attention just not the deserved attention. 3. Then you got the condiments and the bottom bun people at the top of underground hip hop are condiments that really give flavor, and the bottom bun are people copying the top bun not being diff and innovative cause they see that’s what’s popping and “working” for artists. Love the vid Dontai ❤

Music nowadays is only made to mindlessly bop your head to. There's no emotion, no substance.

@tristanjansen1876

11 ай бұрын

It has always been like that tho😂 some artist just care about how the song sounds, others care about bars.

@jackie2-g8l

11 ай бұрын

​@@tristanjansen1876nope it's not always the same lol old songs have meaningful and actual lyrics instead of saying your rapper name the whole song

@tristanjansen1876

11 ай бұрын

@@jackie2-g8l same now. Rappers still make meaningful songs. Not every rapper, but back in the day it wasn't every rapper either.

@Humbledman632

20 күн бұрын

That’s because you only listen to mainstream rap🤦‍♂️

Should listen to Bones, definitely the freshest breath of air from the mainstream and majority of rap/music in general

43 minutes I’m gon watch this while I’m eating

People hear but don’t listen

We forget the basis of any artists whether it's music, painting, cinema is education. Because education, while we hate on it, activates creativity (even if it could be better at doing that), even without high grades. Artists see outliers of extremely creative people (Tyler, Kanye, Travis, Pharrel) that didn't have a long education, or we don't know if they had a good one and artists think that it is likely to be this creative. And so with artists being dumb, there is no concept, theme or story.

Music reflects what the people want and are

@504fireman75

10 ай бұрын

Yeah idiots

perfect example of two people who put the money and attention ahead of actually trying is the island boys

im gonna leave 2 artists that are very underated, heylog(update failure a very good record by him) and seweperson( his album feathers and gloo is pretty nice) .listen to them. imo the people that say a thing is dying or genre is dying either dont explore whats out there ( very underated gems) or dont consume music as an art form. tv, games or movies, even anime are under the "is it dying phase?". First of all its not go look and Second of all stop hyper focusing on the 90s or the 80s media, because it was just it is today. But nobody knows that because we keep on seing or hyper focusing on the good shit that dropped, but we never see the mid or the bad because its lost to time, sorry for the rambling, its just pretty annoying how people say (insert here is dead) for example when people name the top 10 from any genre or media it will be the most generic lists that were popular from the 90s and 80s

Haven’t watched blackyspeakz in a while

Tap in here for the next upcoming artists 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

that solo was actually heat pack you shoes

36:00 Post Malone core

When he started singing one of them kanye type songs 😂

lol he sees tupac wearing orange and thought of the movie notorious lol

The way I see it is when new music is coming out, people all complain and hate on it but eventually it becomes the norm like we saw with mumble rap and such. And it comes to the point where the artist can't really try anything new because people will hate on it or just not give it the time of day. we saw this with whole lotta red i think as when it came out people were not into it as he kind of did a 180 with his style. Now i dont think this album is too experimential it's still pretty trendy, but it's definitely the most passionate thing carti put out you can tell there was actual effort put into it. Point I am trying to make, I think every artist (with exceptions like kendrick for example) starts out just wanting to make some money without really caring about the quality of their work. But over time as their career progresses and life moves on I think they will and have started to go bored. They start putting effort into their music and making genuine art. It will take some time but I guarantee many of the rappers that have made a career on trendy slop are gonna start changing things up The best recent example of this is definitely lil yachty. Listen to literally any song on lil boat 2 and then listen to "the black seminole" it's absolutely insane how much he changed as an artist

Rod wave diss is crazy brotha dontai

Hi Dontai!

This is why Yuno Miles is the best 🔥🔥😭😭

Ah hello dontai

we need dontai to watch "Something weird is happening in hip hop"