Hip-hop trends: Genre-blends, fan communities, discovery worries

Online hip-hop community Rap Fame has been surveying its independent artists – 1,595 of them to be specific – to uncover some current trends in the genre. Among the findings: genre boundaries are “seriously fluid” with more than 83% of respondents saying they flit between different sub-genres. “Right now, trap and drill are king, with almost 50% […]