Hey, I'm Josh, I’m 27 and I’m from Massachusetts, i'm looking for someone to chat with and get to know, my interests and likes include hip hop music, watching basketball, comedy movies, video games, watching Survivor and Big Brother, Marvel and DC Fan, Huge WWE and AEW Fan, message me on Reddit if your interested in chatting and getting to know me more, PS: your more likely to get a response from me if you send a chat and say more than just "Hey"

Hey, my name is Josh and I’m 27 and from Massachusetts, i'm looking for someone to chat with and get to know, my interests and likes include hip hop music, watching basketball, comedy movies, video games, watching Survivor and Big Brother, Marvel and DC Fan, Huge WWE and AEW Fan, message me on Reddit if your interested in chatting and getting to know me more, PS: your more likely to get a response from me if you send a chat and say more than just "Hey"

TikTok has done something pretty amazing to this chart. It went from only having the most mainstream and radio friendly styles of EDM and dance-pop on it, to being this chaotic mess of weird, unpolished and DIY sounding songs(using all sorts of subgenres of electronic music that were never a part of the mainstream) by completely random people uploading music to the internet competing with the established celebrity DJ's making trance, electropop and dubstep. I don't think their has ever been a Billboard chart in history that's had this much of a presence of non-mainstream, experimental tracks by random people.
This glitchy sounding, experimental take on hardstyle peaked at number 17 and managed to stay on here for over 10 weeks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0gfSl0tTIY, the song Diamonds and Roses by Vaporgod is a pretty interesting attempt at combining trap and jersey club with vaporwave influences and that charted. Odetari and 6xarelyhuman have gotten a lot of songs on this chart(Odetaris sound is basically an experimental take on hip hop that combines melodic rap with EDM while 6xarelyhuman's music sounds like a combination of 30H!3 and Brokencyde but with the guitars and screaming taken out), there's a lot of phonk and brazillian phonk(which is apparently a genre that combines drift phonk with brazillian funk) thanks to some very successful examples of those genres from 2022 and 2023 and there's a bunch of songs like Love Game by Breadbeatz that basically have unidentifiable genres.
I don't think something like this has ever happened to a chart before in music history and it's pretty awesome. The quality of the mainstream stuff has also gone up a lot too. There's a lot of vocal trance songs and EDM imitating that style of music that Skrillex used in his 2023 album.

Hey, I'm Josh, I’m 27 and I’m from Massachusetts, i'm looking for someone to chat with and get to know, my interests and likes include hip hop music, watching basketball, comedy movies, video games, watching Survivor and Big Brother, Marvel and DC Fan, Huge WWE and AEW Fan, message me on Reddit if your interested in chatting and getting to know me more, PS: your more likely to get a response from me if you send a chat and say more than just "Hey"

This is gonna be a controversial question… but is there any DJ who’s gonna play hip hop? I’ve been listening to a lot of Drake and Kendrick Lamar these last few weeks and if some of their recent songs are played I would get so hyped

hey! im Nick!
im looking for people my age (16-20 preferably) with similar interests and good intentions! im into D&D, gaming, music, and art. but thats not really specific, is it? so, heres some more detail into each category!
GAMING: Sims4, Roblox, Minecraft, Baldurs Gate 3, Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, Persona, Rec Room, VRChat, Cyberpunk 2077
MUSIC: for genres, im really into indie, hip hop, bedroom pop, and rock. Joji, Laufey, Beebadobie, Mitski, Lana Del Ray, Hozier, Harry Styles (sue me, he's good), and a TON more. i literally LOVE music.
ART: not too much to say on this front! im an artist, and i specialize in digital art. i do traditional aswell, though!
oh! a bit more info about me. I have a boyfriend (i spent a lot of time with him, so you'll most likely meet him at some point), and i have 2 cats! i also really like cutsy stuff like sanrio :)
if youre interested and have read this far, add me! my name on discord is The.NickKnack and if you REALLY read everything, send me a message with the word 'cornchip' :))
EDIT: spelling errors

I mean looking at the hip-hop genre we already had Astroworld and Flower Boy, today the addition was MMLP.
I think My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy HAS to be up there, along with TPAB it set so many milestones that it has to make the list, although maybe other Kanye albums could make the list too? Like Graduation and 808s had a huge impact on music, Yeezus led to many of the sounds that are being used today too. College Dropout was one of, if not, the best debut albums of all time, there's so many albums and all of them have influenced music in some way.
What are your predictions for Kanye albums to make the top 100 though?

I feel like RnB is a very broad genre. You have pop RnB artists like The Weekend and Rihanna. You have hip-hop RnB artists like Bryson Tiller and Party Next Door. You have Soul RnB like the Queen Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye. You have Neo-soul artists like Erykah Badu and Jill Scott. And I may be missing a few. I’m just curious which sub-genre of RnB is your favorite meaning you couldn’t live without it.
Personally I love every type of RnB however my favorite would be Soul RnB. I recently started listening to Aretha Franklin and something about the style of music and the soulfulness of her voice just touches me. It reminds me of gospel music sort of. I’ve also been listening to other soul artists like Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, and Luther Vandross and their music just touches me in a way the other genres don’t speak to me.

Hi everyone. This post is in regards to the “K hiphop & rnb” festival being held in Sydney and Melbourne this July.
This festival is being held by Prime Entertainment, and I feel responsible to make everyone aware of just how shady this company is.
Below is a recap of my experiences with prime, having worked with them directly, and being an industry professional, I feel I am best suited to comment on the matter. Please read this.
I urge you all to please not attend these shows, they are likely to have artists pulled or the shows be cancelled entirely.
I am happy to answer any questions anyone has.
Thank you.
My Experience with Prime Entertainment
Hi. If this seems familiar that’s because this is a recap of everything that’s happened so far, I want to provide all the current information in one place for the relevant people to access.
Please read this the whole way through.
I have worked in the audio industry, in concert production for around 6 years now, and I’ve had my fair share of shit clients, but I have NEVER been treated with such lack of respect and have witnessed such disorganised business before.
I worked with Prime Entertainment on the TripleS in Sydney show last December. I was brought on less than a week before the show and was tasked with fixing a major issue with the staging, an issue that required me to hire in extra equipment and negotiate with venue staff to meet safety requirements. I understand not many of you are familiar with the world of concert production, but to put this simply, it was a job that required WAY more than THREE DAYS to complete in a satisfactory way.
Fixing this issue took me many hours, emails, phone calls, the whole lot, just to fix a damn stage.
Two days before the show, I was also asked to source 6-8 more lights to place on the front of the stage, and despite efforts that is not something I was able to provide given the timeframe.
Prime, I’m an engineer. Not a miracle worker.
I had explained ahead of the show that I was expecting payment and verbally outlined my rates, which in hindsight was a bad move as I now don’t have that in writing.
Post show, I send my invoice to Prime with the attached due date.
I was left on read for nearly two weeks.
It was only when I threatened legal action that I got a response, and to that, I was told that my rates were “unacceptable” and I was offered an hourly rate $30 per hour below my standard AV rate. Below minimum wage for casual workers under the LPA.
We settled on a middle ground, still $10 under my standard rate.
By that point, Prime had racked up almost $200 in late fees, which Prime refused to pay. And still has not paid. I ended up just letting it go as I just needed to pay my rent.
Let’s talk about VIP photos.
It does NOT take you MONTHS to receive photos from your photographers and get them out to the fans who paid for them. Plain and simple. Tell me why we only just received the Melbourne TripleS VIP photos, only AFTER having to contact you about this. I discovered that the reason these pics haven’t been provided is because prime hasn’t actually PAID those photographers yet. Multiple. Going all the way back to kwave.
And what’s more, you didn’t even provide all of them! Some people had their images left out of the file, conveniently the same people who have been trying to get answers out of you regarding photo approvals for a show that happened in NOVEMBER.
Prime, you do not get to sit there and leave people, clients, and audience alike on READ for weeks when you are withholding vital information and people’s rightful money that YOU owe them. That is plainly disrespectful.
Tabber and Jey.
What on earth made you think cancelling a Jey tour stop and not making a statement about it on your main platform was a good idea? Not everyone is checking your website daily, however if you had just put a post out on your instagram this would’ve been a lot better.
Now as for Tabber, it has been months and you have not processed refunds for the ticketholders who purchased VIP tickets at the incorrect price. It is now less than a month until the show and these people are unsure if their tickets are even valid because you WON’T COMMUNICATE.
This is your fuck up, Prime. You need to fix it.
You, as a promoter and event organiser, have a duty to be transparent with your audience about everything that pertains to the events you run, and you have not done such thing at all.
You have been severely unprofessional and lack the basic communication skills required for this kind of work. If you are not capable of running this business in a productive way, you need to hand it over to someone who can.
I refuse to sit idly by and watch you mislead your audience, this doesn’t just affect you, it affects the artists, the audience and the Australian music industry. You have a responsibility here and you have failed.
You have been given so many chances to fix these issues and you have instead stuck your head in the sand each and every time. Shame.
UPDATE 1:
well who’s surprised. I got blocked on all platforms. But I have some more information that I’d like to share.
After I put out my first post, I met up with a photographer who worked on some Prime shows last year and discovered that I was NOT the only one who did not get paid! This person is owed several hundred dollars by prime and has invoices MONTHS overdue, with radio silence from Prime. And he’s not the only one.
And now to add insult to injury, Prime is now approaching other photographers interstate and offering to pay for them to fly to Sydney and Melbourne for this hiphop festival in July, before even paying their professionals from shows LAST YEAR.
Now an update on VIP photos. As I’m sure those of you with packages know, not all the VIP photos were provided. Prime, people PAID for these photos, you do not get to pick and choose who gets them.
Prime is still yet to provide ANY vip photos for certain people, and quite frankly it’s petty and immature to withhold these images because you don’t like someone. This is grossly unprofessional.
People paid for these photos Prime, and I am not above getting my hands on them myself and getting them to the rightful people myself. I know you blocked me but I know you’ll see this either way, so let’s put it this way, I am in the process of acquiring these photos myself and I will be releasing them. The photographers deserve to be paid and the fans deserve the benefits they paid for.
You didn’t pay for them so you have no right to them. Stop leaving people on READ when they ask about the money they are rightfully owed.
Get your head out of your ass and get your shit together before you lose your business.
UPDATE 2:
I cannot believe we’re talking about this again.
It seems like every single time I hear about them things just get worse.
I am beyond angry.
I refuse to sit by and let Prime ruin Australia and New Zealand’s touring industry.
We as a country, rely so much on the international touring industry and companies like prime that routinely scam fans and artists are damaging the economy and I will not have it.
How fucking dare you come back and do a show when you actively owe thousands of dollars to fans to artists and to staff. The fucking audacity that you have astounds me.
Where are the refunds for Tabber? Where are the VIP pictures for Jey? Where is the merch that people ordered for Gemini?
You don’t have it because you clearly are incompetent and are a scammer.
You have time and time again, failed to pay the people that are supporting your shows and making these shows possible for you, and bringing you an income. You are ungrateful, selfish, entitled, and severely unprofessional.
You have no place in our industry.
Do NOT purchase any tickets for the k-hip hop & rnb festival. It’s likely to be canceled and you are likely to not receive any of your ticket benefits. This is ploy for money because they need it to pay for other things that I’m not at liberty to disclose. But it’s not good.
Prime, you’re too deep in your own shit to claw yourself out. You deserve to be in jail for what you’ve done. You disgust me on a very guttural level.
This isn’t just about me. This is about the industry as a whole. Gio, you are DESTROYING the Australian and New Zealand touring industry by operating in this way.
You need to stop. I do not CARE how much more money you lose. Cancel the show. You won’t get away with this, not unless I’m fucking dead.
I have contacted the management of each of the artists schedule to perform at the festival, and have strongly discouraged them from going through with it.
Please share this and tag the artists and the companies in this post so that they can see this.
We need to make it known that this behaviour is not acceptable at all in our industry and in our country. We are better than this.
I would also like to quickly mention something that I’ve already mentioned on my Instagram story.
Prime entertainment and Nova entertainment are not the same people.
Nova entertainment has been nothing but amazing to me ever since we started working together and ever since this whole situation blew up. Please send them your love and support, they have been through enough.
They are not responsible for any of the mismanagement of any previous shows, in fact, they’re the reason that most of them went ahead in the first place. They were handed a shitty deck of cards, and they did the best that they could with them, please do not send any hate. They were not responsible, and they are no longer associated with Prime.

It'll be a cool moment in Hip-Hop if Em were to congratulate Kendrick on the next album for getting the W. Em has said "It's Aftermath that I ride for till I die". Showing support for Kendrick would make this a bigger W for Kendrick if one of the GOATS officially claimed him to be the winner in their eyes. He also supported Kendrick when he dropped the Control verse, previous albums, and just shouts him out all the time in general. So I can't wait to see what he has to say about this battle.

Like how there are a bunch of great guys named Andre (Andre 3000, Andre Nickatina, Dr. Dre) what do you think is the name with the best artists

This was a song i used to listen to as a teenager but i completely forgot the name. Its hip hop, late 90s or early 2000s. Im pretty sure its west coast. Its 2 guys rapping on the same track, as a duo i think not just a feature. I think the word ‘rainbow’ might be in the title. The beat is chill and mellow with like a bongo drum sort of sound. Talking about chilling at a bbq and smoking weed. Thats all i know. If anyone can identify the song id be eternally grateful. One of the guys MIGHT be hispanic

If you look at rap and hip hop, between 2000-2005 it blends. It changes more in 2006 with some 05 precursors but overall 05 fits into 2000-2004. There was no Y2K era because of how much things blended from 2000-2005.

Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Theory of a deadman, jason aldean, luke bryan. I could go on and on. Ur turn!

Hey everyone this is my new self produced five track project called Fiveplay. I go by Fivestar please enjoy.

The evolution of console fighting video games during The Crack Era. From The Galaxy of Queens, New York.

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