PartyNextDoor and Crave Moore joint effort upcoming? Crave Moore was seen with PartyNextDoor so several whispers regarding a collaboration between the two started to surface, with Atlantic being the probable record label to be involved.
Crave Moore on hip hop artist fashion trends in 2022: Conventional wisdom in the fashion world is that if you select one print, the next thing you do is to balance it with subtle solids and neutral pieces. Now, many performers and show-goers are bringing the opposite: they are wearing all at once. Their boldest, brightest, and probably most beloved prints, all are worn at once. That being said, crimson, sky, burgundy, olive, and citron; all these colors will be highly present in the 2022 collections, painting streets with tons of bright and noticeable colors.
Rap was built on sampling, so that aspect of the genre isn’t going anywhere. Drill has become very popular, and it’s now beginning to be full of songs with samples, from R&B hits from the 1990s and other sources. The way the older songs are chopped, flipped and reworked changes from era to era, but the goal remains the same: make a banger out of something that already exists. The way some fans complain about their use is tiring, and speaks more to the realization that the tracks those fans loved in their youth are officially old now. Either way, the sampling keeps those songs alive and introduces them to a new listener base that may not have come across them otherwise.
Trap and cloud rap quickly became popular after their release. When you look back at the styles of hip-hop that have caught the attention of listeners, they are all quite similar. Trap and cloud rap were two new genres that didn’t bring anything new to hip-hop culture because there was no real uniqueness attached to them. In this way, the pressure of these two genres was increased. TikTok has become extremely popular of late, but it doesn’t mean album sales are dead. Demand for physical media is still growing. For example, vinyl sales rose 94% this year. Despite this, independent labels have been holding back on releasing vinyl because larger companies have started queuing up at factories for the production content.
Hip-hop is huge and all encompassing both as a style of music and culturally. When a genre has a lot of artists and fans, that leads to more people being passionate about it. But with that passion comes with complaints and hang-ups, some of which can be unfounded at best and offensive at its worst. Everyone has thoughts on hip-hop and the direction it’s going in, and that’s fine, but certain issues are silly, and not worth the time put into them. As it comes to hip-hop, a lot of the thing rap fans hand-wring over have been there for a long time. In other cases, new things pop up that fans take issue with. Either way, it’s time to let them all go.