u/ImNotTomStopAsking

Narratives that you see either here on this subreddit or on other online spaces that you just think is straight up wrong or you hear it enough that it becomes a cliché and makes you go "Alright, alright. We get it already!"

"So-and-so has been trash since their 3rd album/4th album/5th album", "When you listen back to it, so-and-so really had the worst/best verse on this song", "So-and-so only has one good album in their discography!" Type shit

TAKE YOUR FUCKING BREAKS AND LUNCHES!!!

I have so many coworkers that tell me they skip their breaks or postpone their lunches to keep helping out in the backroom and part of me wants to snatch their phones and start their meal break for themselves.

The backroom will be fine with or without you working in it. Don't slave yourself away for Walmart.

There's like 100+ bars from Gucci Mane's mixtape discography alone that are like vocal stims for me to say randomly, but the ones that always stuck around the most were his adlibs. Ever since I went on a deep-dive in his discography I'd catch mysef randomly going like "Yeeeaaahhh", "BRRR!", or "'SGucciiiii!".

Does anybody else have any artists they do this with?

We hear so many horror stories of up and coming rappers who get some buzz with their one big breakout hit just for their careers to get fucked over by signing under a label for a very shady deal or just by getting no promo whatsoever, but I want to hear it the other way around.

Which rapper or rap group almost signed to a (in retrospect) famously bad label but ended up rejecting it for another one or going solo and their careers are in a much better place as a result?

This technically isn't a Hip-Hop ONLY take, but for the sake of this subreddit I'm just going to use HipHop music as an example...I want to bring back albums that have songs longer than 2 minutes.

In my opinion, Playboi Carti and Kanye's recent projects are the two biggest offenders of the 1-2 minute song epidemic we're in. What used to be a 3:30 - 5:30 min song that had a "Verse - Chorus - Verse - Chorus - Bridge - Verse - Chorus" structure is now a 1:30 - 2:15 min song that is Verse - Chorus - Chorus or just Chorus - Verse - Chorus. By the time these rappers get into a good flow and I'm starting to nod my head, it's already on to the next song.

It feels like these rappers or maybe these labels are telling them to have just enough verses with a catchy enough chorus for it to be TikTok song of the month or something.