Adam22 (Adam)

And if you look at the age bracket of 20 to 30 right now, it's pretty much young boy.

Influences doesn't mean that it is that genre.

That doesn't make country music hip-hop music.

They got Kevin Gates on it.

Just because they borrowed a type of drum from hip-hop, that doesn't make it hip-hop.

It's not the biggest form of music at this time.

Pop is way bigger.

Which was not true in 2017.

I know too many drugs to teach in any school, for being honest.

You're for sure getting fired for banging some students.

I think that the mainstream for a long time was just really fascinated by rappers, and it feels like a lot of that has kind of worn off.

Hip-hop kind of went into this super gangster era

And for a while, it felt like people were really fascinated by that.

But then it feels like that kind of wore off at a certain point.

And all you have to do, you don't really have to turn the clock back that far.

I mean, if you rewind the clock 20 years or I mean, 20 years, hip hop was still kind of like

one of the biggest genres but like 30 years ago you probably wouldn't have really predicted that hip-hop was going to be as huge as it eventually became so there's always going to be ups and downs you know but the thing is also people are fascinated in these stories of these people but that doesn't necessarily translate to them making good music and people are kind of jaded to those stories

You know, like it's just the narrative of like I'm a dude from the hood and I sold drugs and I made something out of myself was like very compelling before.

And it feels like the culture just kind of craves new things.

And in addition to that, though, I think the biggest factor is just the star factor.