Trippie Redd has shared his take on a “divided” Hip Hop scene in relation to country and Spanish music increasing in popularity.
Spotify’s Head of Urban Music, Carl Chery, took to Twitter on Saturday (June 17) to claim that Hip Hop needs new leaders in terms of progressing the genre.
“Hip Hop needs new leaders who are intentional about dictating where the music and culture are going,” he wrote. “It feels like artists either don’t think about it or don’t want that responsibility. We need it tho. Who’s gonna step up?”
Trippie Redd came across the tweet and responded, claiming Hip Hop has become “too divided” with influence from other music.
“He right,” he said. “we gone bounce back tho. We let country and Spanish music take over cuz we too divided.”
He added: “That shit lame as fuck.”
Latin superstar Bad Bunny was Spotify’s most-streamed artist in the world in 2022 for the third year in a row, with his songs “Me Porto Bonito” and “Tití Me Preguntó” being the fourth and fifth most-streamed songs that year.
His album Un Verano Sin Ti was also Spotify’s most-streamed album globally in 2022.
Country artist Morgan Wallen currently holds the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with One Thing at a Time, which serves as his 13th non-consecutive week at the top to equal Bad Bunny’s 2022 record.
Wallen has also collaborated with Lil Durk over the years on “Broadway Girls” and more recently “Stand by Me,” which appears on his latest album Almost Healed.
As for Trippie Redd, he released his Mansion Musik album in January as the follow-up to 2021’s Trip at Knight. Chief Keef executive produced the project, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart with roughly 56,000 total album-equivalent units in its first week.
The project was stacked with big-name features, including Durk, Future, Lil Baby, Juice WRLD, Travis Scott, Ski Mask the Slump God, G Herbo, DaBaby, Kodak Black and others.
Nah, they let your lame ass take over and nobody wants to hear that shit.
Hip hops become hot doo doo water. Everyone’s either trash like this kid, corny af or an industry plant. If they stopped signing these dumbass young boys and only put out quality material, hip hop would still be the best genre instead of just being the most popular one.
Trippie Redd is part of the group of rappers that started the destruction of hip hop with all that emo garbage trying to emulate rack. Autotune and confusing “singing” with “rapping” also degraded hip hop. The reason why spanish and country music is on the rise is because both genres adopted what hip hop has slowly abandoned, actual rapping and rappers. This has caused latinos and white people to spend their money elsewhere. They dont want to hear rappers “singing” or see them dressing like 80s punk rockers.
Most of todays current rappers don’t have mainstream appeal… too much repetitive lyrics, autotune and mumble rap. The golden era died a long time ago
This is the culture of hiphop! The very problem talking about what the problem is but not naming himself as the problem! “Oh the hypocrisy”
As people get dumber, the quality of everything gets worse because people can’t tell the difference. It’s not just music. If you put out something artistic or substantial people won’t get it anyway. They don’t wanna see quality films, they wanna see Cocaine Bear and Fast and Furious 12. They don’t wanna see quality tv shows, they wanna see reality shows of people arguing and fighting. And they don’t wanna hear ‘real’ music, they wanna hear whatever everyone else is listening to because honestly people don’t even KNOW what they like anymore. They just like what’s popular and what they think is the cool thing to like.