https://qz.com/1032714/beyonce-and-kendrick-lamar-dominate-the-charts-because-hip-hop-is-now-officially-bigger-than-rock-music/ 25% vs. 23% of market share, according to this article. The article itself is horribly written but the numbers prolly don't lie.
Next thing you know, they'll stop having sock-hops... You are now officially one of the "Kids these days" crowd! Congratulations on becoming old!
Uproxx weighs in, and one of my favorite new "bands," Jay Som, gets an honorable mention. http://uproxx.com/music/mtv-vmas-state-of-rock-in-2017-tastemaking/ I love how the writer turns the whole theme on its head at the very end.
Hip-Hop today is auto-tune garbage. Pac and Biggie would be turning in their graves had they heard this shit. I still stream the good stuff on Spotify in my car. The radio stuff is trash.
You just aren't looking hard enough. Yeah, most of the stuff they call "hip hop" nowadays is autotune or mumble rap. But there's plenty of good stuff still coming out. Ka, for instance. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1hDpufNXd0
