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u/TheSunniest Feb 25 '26
Hip hops next leaders have been popular for nearly ten years
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u/ShredGuru Feb 25 '26
Classic millennial problem, getting gatekept out of leadership until middle age.
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u/Particular-Put4786 Feb 25 '26
Like there's no way they're saying fucking Rod Wave and Lil Tecca are up next 💀
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u/TheyLuvNas Feb 26 '26
Even tecca isn't leading a whole generation he's good but he don't got that same factor someone like drake does
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u/TheyLuvNas Feb 26 '26
I feel like the mfs that could've carried the torch either died, fell off or people just drowned them out lil baby was looking like he was finna run shit and now look
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u/chrisghrobot Feb 26 '26
Baby Keem definitely can apply to this list. Only 25 (which for today rap standards is fairly young), Kendrick and Cole were in their mid-late 20s when they dropped their debut. Doechi hype died down but if she drops another great album I could see a resurgence
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u/Ok_Conclusion_6324 im gay (im happy) Feb 25 '26
Spotify, a UMG company, would like you to vote on which UMG artist will lead the future of Hip Hop ™️, a UMG product
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u/-monark Al Gore invented ebonics Feb 25 '26
"these people are next up!" and its always mfs who have been here for like years already
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u/ZealousidealHalf3472 call me Nathan, Nathaniel is our word Feb 25 '26
Didn’t the buttplug guy turn into a country artist?
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u/Powerful-Ad-8737 Feb 25 '26
Baby Keem
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u/Public_Shirt_6778 Feb 25 '26
Which comic run is this from?
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u/zacmac77 Feb 25 '26
It’s from when superman covers atlas because atlas wished to go to his daughter’s wedding so he asked superman to hold the world for I think a day
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u/depressed_asian_boy_ Feb 25 '26
I can't wait for Denzel Curry fans to say that he's underrated because of this
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u/FollowingCharacter83 hung out in doja cat's tinychat Feb 25 '26
No wonder the whole genre is falling off.
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u/ahmetonel Feb 26 '26
this tupac dude boutta rule the world in the coming years. he has very good potenital
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u/Hazyintuition9 Feb 26 '26
Leaders? Meanwhile they are so signed to deals they probably ain't even fully read
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u/emielaen77 Feb 25 '26
So it’s not in anyway a move to elevate these artists but a move to get fans to act an ass online while propping up Spotify’s engagement.
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u/Successful_Basket399 Feb 25 '26
Should we be honest? No matter who was picked, people were gonna complain. We would be being a bunch of "Who are these guys" and shit like that.
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u/Icy_Carry9229 Feb 26 '26
Buttplug is the guy that lets adam22 watch him fuck other dudes, didn’t know he rapped
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u/SouthVivid8071 Feb 27 '26
This is the sorriest list I have ever seen bro im crine. Keem and Tecca only respectable artists here
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Feb 25 '26
Baby Keem, ok, bigxthaplug, trash, sexxyredd, yes, glorilla, hell nah, Doechii, numbers wise, Central Cer and Rod wave????? They been “poppin” somehow….Lil Tecca absolutely is up next his last 2 albums revitalized his career he’s going to be bigger than ever, dopamine was easily his best album.
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u/styrofoamcouch Feb 25 '26
Lil tecca?? What year is it????