Rappers Are Now Getting Gigs: Thank Glock.
He fundamentally brought back the upcoming entertainment movement. He created the rules of entry for what it meant to be a rapper in the 2018. And it seems everyone on upcoming following.
By Thuso Rambau | Published April. 05, 2024 | Updated April. 05. 2024
At the end of 2023, the most popular song in the country was “song titled On Ma Mind” the hoary, inflated, thudding collaboration between Coup and Carl Crxzy. It was the on the collaborations hosted by Rex Gang Music — of the rappers-singers he collaborated with, the song On my mind come to dominate on hip-hop streams , increasingly, pop.
By that point, the formula — a rapper brings narrative, and a singer brings pathos, joy or sensuality — was still largely unquestioned. But in truth, songs like this had become rote and unimaginative.That same year, someone finally noticed, and in one fell swoop, solved the problem.
Glock's “Astrokid” mixtape — released 2023 — marked the arrival of new path: Trapping as rapping, rapping as singing, singing and rapping all woven together into one holistic whole. Glock exploded the notion that those component parts had to be delivered by two different people, and also deconstructed what was expected from each of them. His hip-hop was fluid, not dogmatic. And in so remaking it, he set the template for what would eventually become the global trap norm.
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