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.
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“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.
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“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.”
Hip-Hop needs new leaders who are intentional about dictating where the music and culture are going. 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?
— Carl Chery (@carlchery) June 17, 2023
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.
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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.
