http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/hip-hop-is-the-most-listened-to-genre-in-the-world-according-to-spotify-analysis-of-20-billion-10388091.html
How does this make you feel, /mu/?
>Spotify has created a live 'musical map of the world', analysing nearly 20 billion tracks to show localized listening trends for over 1000 cities
>The most interesting finding however is that hip-hop is the world's top genre, showing up on playlists more than all others, regardless of geography or language
>>61095301
I didn't care before and don't care now
I also think I won't care in the future either
This triggers autists on /mu/, but I'm fine with it.
>>61095301
Hip-Hop is music's lowest common denominator
>>61095354
>yfw normies living all around your neighbourhood probably listen to it too
>>61095301
>>The most interesting finding however is that hip-hop is the world's top genre, showing up on playlists more than all others, regardless of geography or language
yeah but from spotifys userbase? that includes only 10-30 year olds in the developed world with some outliers. hardly means its the most populsar in the world just on spotifies userbase which is not the whole world, all ages, or all incomes
who cares, rap literally isn't even music
wow who would of thought, a bunch of black teens and young adults a couple decades ago would create the most popular music genre of 2015
kek
>>61095486
metal is neckbeard trash too btw
>>61095480
>>61095486
these were painful to look at
Hip hop
1. Deepest lyrical content
2. Most diverse instrumentals, samples from all other genres
3. Dankest beats
4. Bangers
5. Timeless
6. Ascends the listener to a higher plane
7. Literally the highest art form there is
8. Keeps the listener informed about current social and political events, luxury car brands, narcotics and how much money and sex the rap man has. "If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice."
9. The best genre all around
10. Colorful
11. Always evolving
12. Cool, calm and collected
13. Real
14. Tells stories that the listener can relate to in his personal life
15. The frontier of modern philosophy
16. Dank beats
>>61095321
wow you have all your bases covered!!!
>>61095596
>no trap-influenced bangers
0/10 try again
>>61095480
yeah i mean, if you sort on his most popular...
>>61095596
>Timeless
that's why any song is called old after a few months. I think #1 on your list should have been "disposable" tbhwy.
>>61095354
This.
Hip hop is the most profane genre as well.
http://lab.musixmatch.com/profanity_genres/
>>61095596
>Deepest lyrical content
Not really intrinsecal to the genre, frequently shallow.
>Most diverse instrumentals, samples from all other genres
Most of the time used inside the narrow models of hip-hop, making it as conventional as any genre.
>Tells stories that the listener can relate to
As a non 'murican, no, I can't relate to your racial fights and specific kind of poor people. Sure there is hip-hop being made here, but its just as much of a bad copy of the original as Jazz or Rock.
> Keeps the listener informed about current social and political events, luxury car brands, narcotics and how much money and sex the rap man has. "If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice."
Spot On. This is what actually makes Hip-Hop the best genre all around.
>>61095824
so in all hip hop? nigga shit and fuck are saidout of 40% of all the words? what do the percenteges mean?
>>61096114
Oh wow that faggot is with the flyting shite.
>>61095836
>the narrow models of hip-hop
it's a wider model than most other genres, especially the ones afraid of samplers and synths
>>61096176
blues music borrows heavily from irish slave folk music, therefore blues is a white genre predominated by african americans.
is this turning into a thread where we all try to claim ownership of genres that were invented before any of us were alive?
>>61096196
>most famous blues records
>most listened to genre of 2015
>white
>>61096237
>genres
>not East Ethiopian chimpanzee music
>implying
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>>61096256
truly the level of discourse in this thread has been elevated by your words
>>61096241
You need to look at a genre's origins. Irish, Scottish, the British, and the Scandinavians all laid the roots and seeds of genres for african slaves to steal, kind of like how they steal bikes and your high school crush's virginity
>>61096285
u mad?
>>61096188
If rock can be considered a genre, it's the wider one, with countless variations of structure and instrumentation.
>>61095824
>most profane
that goes either to grindcore or tryhard black/death metal.
>>61096354
>countless variations of structure and instrumentation
how does hip hop not have these things?
>>61096285
>all laid the roots and seeds of genres for african slaves to steal
Blues became a thing because of spirituals and west african instrumentation, from Mande and Tuareg music.
>>61096285
Lmao this reeks of pasta.
Any genre of music that places the most emphasis on lyrics will always be second tier trash.
>>61096285
>how they steal bikes and your high school crush's virginity
this is so relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzrzS1Ag_g
>>61096487
but instrumental hip hop and hip hop with good instrumentals exist
>>61096487
This. Lyrics shouldn't be a component that determines how enjoyable music is. Most of the time people can't always relate to it anyway.
>>61096429
mixed with european folk.... you wont find verse chorus verse or acoustic guitars in traditional african music...
no music appears out of a void. its influenced by many factors. saying whites took rock and blues form blacks is kind of denying a complex history where aspects of music are taken and shared all across the globe with people from different cultures interacting....
>>61096487
Pretty much
And if you think about it, lyrics should also be melodically and rhythmically "attached" to the song. The voice is an instrument, and if the music is bad, then the voice will inevitably be bad.
>>61096528
people listen to hip hop to escape usually, not to relate
>>61096496
he...hehehe....this... is kinda racist mate
>>61096496
holy shiit how did they get away with this? seems incredibly racust and sexist.
>>61096613
>>61096623
This was my initial thought the day it came out. Somebody mentioned it in the comments, but it only has four thumbs up. I don't think most people know the study linking monkeys and African homo sapiens.
>>61096657
i mean its a well known racist stereotype to call black males gorillas. especially the basketball playing, taking our pretty blonde white women steroetype.
i guess its meant to sort of be from the high school white boys perspective where he objectifies women and views the black boy who is better at basketball and is with his crush as a dumb monkey. however i didnt feel it was critiquing that in any way in fact i thought it was trying to reinforce the ideas that this is how high schoolers should think and that theres nothing wrong with those attitudes...
>>61096796
>>>/tumblr/
>>61095824
no shit you fucking bitch ass nigga
>>61097229
>nigga
The improper spelling upsets me more than the profanity.
>>61097340
you're autism upsets me more than anything
>>61095836
>intrinsecal
>>61097393
My supposed autism is not objectively wrong, unlike the terrible spelling that is common in Hip Hop.
>>61097340
nigga and nigger are not the same word. At least not anymore
>>61097442
I bet you think you're genuinely funny.
nigga
[nig-uh]
Usage
Nigga is used mainly among African Americans, but also among other minorities and ethnicities, in a neutral or familiar way and as a friendly term of address. It is also common in rap music.
>>61097514
I'm genuinely serious.
http://beta.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nigga
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/spellcheck/american_english/?q=nigga
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/spellcheck/essential-american-english/?q=nigga
0 results.
>>61097547
It's a colloquialism, of course there's no formal definition. What kind of argument are you trying to make?
>>61097582
>there's no formal definition
Too bad.
>>61097601
And? Are you implying that if a word has no formal definition then it is inherently a misspelling?
What kind of logic is this?
>>61097582
He's being an pseudo intellekctshual nerdd.
See pic related.
>>61097689
>He
Ha.
>>61097701
irrelevant
>>61097701
im a girl btw XD
My original statement still stands
>>61095301
Hip-Hop is the ugliest nuisance ever to be called music. Perhaps I could endure it while on cocaine, but since it's for people with rather sick notions of what's enjoyable, even then I would still enjoy it less than almost anything else there is to listen to. And since unprecedented freedom of choice reveals that punishment's gluttons are the largest demographic, I can only take it as catastrophically bad news about the human condition generally.
>>61098398
You literally sound just like a death metal fan.
>>61095301
>map based dense regions of population
>hip-hop is most popular genre
>dense regions are urban regions
Conclusion: hip-hop is the most popular genre among [spoiler] niggers [/spoiler]
>>61098398
Is this a pasta?
>>61098487
I like death metal and hip hop but >>61098398
is autisitc tier.
>>61098837
>densely populated rural areas existing
>anywhere
>>61098398
Thank you.
>>61095596
>Always evolving
kek
>>61098487
I rank Death Metal as the 2nd worst genre in the history of music, so your sense of what a writer's cognizance suggests about their taste in music couldn't be more wrong.
>>61099017
What is the 3rd worst genre?
Beta Indie?
>>61098859
No, I wrote it just now. Eloquence comes easily to me, whether to condemn or praise.
I'm a music conservatory graduate. I spent years analyzing music for grades, so when I come across something that's garbage, I know. Rap music has the melodic complexity of a train horn (actually less; train horns often are tuned to a tritone, which seem to be absent in Rap) and the lyrical complexity barely goes beyond a 3rd grade vocabulary. Not only is this music intended for ignorant audiences, it's intended to provoke ignorant young people into committing crimes, in order to fill the for-profit prisons in the US.
>>61095301
Hip-Hop is the absolute definition of Lowest Common Denominator music so it makes sense that it would be the most lisened to genre.
>>61097701
There are no women on the internet you dumb cow
>>61099134
>provoke ignorant young people into committing crimes, in order to fill the for-profit prisons in the US
nice conspiracy theory xD
do you also think 9/11 was done by Murricans too :DDD
>>61099196
>taking any comment in this thread seriously
>>61099094
Verbosity comes easily, whether to condemn or praise.
Fixed it for ya.
>>61099031
Simon Cowell. He is a genre all by himself, of the ear that's most pleased by tortured bathos, technically refined as it is emotionally retarded.
>>61099223
>posting in a thread about hip hop music
>not a pleb
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>>61099275
>memetexting
>even more memes
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>>61099226
That's not wit but its counterfeit.
>>61095596
well, this convinced me
>>61095414
This.
>>61098994
There's hip-hop coming out now that stylistically wouldn't have even been imagined 5 years ago. Can you say that about your Tame Impala, Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsome or whatever mediocre alternative singer you probably worship?
Hip-hops cool
metals cool
rock is cool
EDM is cool
It's not a fucking contest guys
>>61098994
Genres are always evolving.
Deny this if you want, but they'll always evolve.
>>61095428
*tips Trilby*
>>61100496
Appeal by genre
>hip hop
>rebellion
>metal
>anarchaic subjects
>rock
>angst
>EDM
>good to dance to with a mass of people
