The Decline of Hip-hop

As with all other genres of music, hip-hop is not going to last forever in mainstream popularity. The same effect went with jazz and it is currently going with rock music. Of course, hip-hop will stay as a genre of music but it would not be the mainstream genre and will only attract a small niche market, just like jazz is today.

Some people believe that true hip-hop is currently on the decline. The current "mainstream" hip-hop scene consist of more "trap music" and "mumble rappers", and hip-hop is starting to fuse into other genres such as EDM, jazz, and even country music.

Hip-hop will still remain being popular throughout the 2020s, but the first signs of it's true decline will take place sometime in the 2030s-2050s. Around the year 2050, the average age of hip-hop fans will begin to become senior citizens -a new genre of music once again with replace hip-hop as the most popular form of music for youth culture.

Hip-hop will eventually start evolving and fusing into a different style of music that will make the true, traditional hip-hop from the 1980s, 1990s, and even the early 2000s sound old and archaic. This similar effect took place with rock music. It will be very difficult to find a modern rock band with the stylings of 1950s rock and roll, unless the band wants to go "retro." Bands with the archaic 1950s sound are still around, but they are not the mainstream best sellers.

Hip-hop traditionally have been associated with the low-life culture but will eventually turn into a high brow genre of music understood only by certain intellectuals. By 2096, the prose and poetry of Tupac will be studied in a high school English class.