![]() At this point, that center is occupied by towering polymath vibe-absorbers like Drake and Travis Scott, both of whom excel at ingesting energy from the rest of the rap landscape and then channeling it back through their own largesse. There is a center to rap - a mainstream, an Athens. It’s ancient Greece: A vast and chaotic clutter of city-states, many of which are often at war with one another. Instead, it’s a loosely connected network of interconnected scenes and audiences, many of which probably disagree about what rap music even is. But one thing that the data doesn’t quite show is us that rap, like every other genre of music in our atomized age, is not a monolith. At the end of 2019, rap is the most popular form of music in America, and maybe in the entire world.
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