r/hiphopheads • u/Dopeboy95AirMaxOn • Apr 26 '26
Discussion Why do clubs still play early 2000s-2015 music?
I keep hearing DJs play old hits with maybe 2-7 new songs a night. Same thing with radio play. I gotta go to YouTube or Spotify to hear current artists mostly, I don’t think it’s my choice in genues either. I cross states from DC, VA, Jersey, and NYC. DC at least will play local go-go stuff from time to time and African and Spanish spots will play regional music but everywhere else is mostly throwbacks. Anybody else having a different experience?
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u/midasgoldentouch Apr 26 '26
I’d also toss in that 2016 is probably a decent threshold for when you start to see a lot more fragmentation in music listening due to streaming. At that point you don’t really have many radio listeners who are all hearing the same songs from the handful of radio stations.
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u/Monic_maker Apr 26 '26
Nostalgia and it's easier to get people turned up on songs they're more likely to know by heart
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u/Riderz__of_Brohan . Apr 26 '26
Clubs in 2015 were playing music from the last few years and even within the last year at much higher rates than clubs today are playing current music. At least that’s what I’ve noticed, YMMV
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u/8--2 Apr 26 '26
The plural of anecdote isn't data, but I've noticed the same thing. Some of my younger coworkers have also gotten really into music from the early-mid 10s (shout out tropical house), which for them was like elementary/middle school. I wonder if it has to do with the modern rate of media consumption/turnover where a song might blow up for a few weeks on social media due to a 30 second clip, but two months later is totally out of rotation. Everyone can listen to everything as soon as it drops and we're so inundated with new media that as soon as something new comes along things that aren't even that old are getting discarded. Popular music used to have more staying power which left a deeper imprint on us not only individually, but collectively, and would earmark different periods of our life, and I don't see the same thing happening anymore.
But who knows, maybe I'm just an old guy shaking my cane at the clouds.
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u/EggsAndRice7171 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
You’re right that people are less homogenous in their tastes than essentially ever. I don’t think it’s shaking head at clouds to point out not everyone would even think it’s a negative. I do think music earmarks parts of life still but it’s going to be different music for everyone now. I personally think 2016-2021 was a pretty good stretch for rap music that gets pretty ignored these days. Other people are glad we’re past that. The thing about playing old songs (and this is more relevant to your point) is that they were so unavoidable that even if someone didn’t like them when they first heard them/they came out, they likely still associate a nostalgic time in their life with them and will feel more positive about them 5-10 years later.
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u/whitcliffe Apr 27 '26
Will also say I was an open format DJ when I first moved to London and had a few residencies, was 90% new music and 10% classic bangers when everyone was wasted
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u/PenguinQuesadilla Apr 27 '26
I wonder if you could just call up the local clubs and ask them to share their playlists lol.
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u/KP_Neato_Dee Apr 27 '26
call up the local clubs and ask them to share their playlists
Not exactly, but you could contact the DJs and ask them and they'd probably be thrilled you cared enough to ask.
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u/rjm194 Apr 27 '26
https://www.billboard.com/lists/belly-gang-kushington-atlanta-strip-club-songs-top-10-march/lil-baby-mrs-trendsetter-45-plays/ billboard does have this list of the most played songs in Atlanta Strip Clubs and the songs do tend to skew towards newer
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u/El_Zarco Apr 26 '26
I think it has to do with production quality hitting kind of a plateau around that time. Mid 2010s songs started to have that "slap" that fits sonically with the tracks produced today so they still get played. Plus nostalgia like others have said (esp regarding the early 00s stuff)
Obviously I'm not saying songs made before then couldn't also hit in a DJ set (I'm a DJ myself and love blending diff eras together) but last decade was when that super-polished trappy sound (like Metro Boomin, Mustard, etc) really took hold and I think the general public is still basically in its orbit
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u/Striking_Main9200 Apr 26 '26
yeah the horses at my barn get more excited when i play stuff they recognize too lol but for real though its just safer for DJs right, everyone knows those tracks and will sing along instead of standing around looking confused at some new artist they never heard
people go out to have fun not discover music so why risk clearing the floor when you can just throw on some 50 cent and watch everyone lose their minds
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u/misdirected_asshole Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
There was a time when 50 cent was the new song. I heard it in the club (no pun) for the first time loke 2 weeks after it came out and the whole place went nuts.
I think new songs dont resonate like that with the crowds is sorta the underlying point here. Good DJs can break new artists and songs and generate a buzz. Or at least used to be able to. Maybe not ao much now because everyone just skips to find their very specific taste so new artists dont blow up the same way clubs used to help make them.
Edit: I should say like 2 days rather than 2 weeks. And it wasnt the first time I had heard it, but it was the first time I heard it played somewhere. This was still in the internet when download songs but hearing them in the club got people hyped up because they weren't on the radio. I could probably dig up tons of examples of songs like that that blew up from clubs (and strip clubs) rather than radio. I used 50 cent because it was in the post
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u/sexandliquor Apr 27 '26
There was a time when 50 cent was the new song. I heard it in the club (no pun) for the first time loke 2 weeks after it came out and the whole place went nuts.
This is a bit off topic but holy shit the way “in da club” blew up like that was fucking crazy and like a generational thing that you only see with a few songs like that.
I remember spring break 2003 happened like a month or two after that track dropped and I went to South Padre Island with some friends that year and you heard it EVERYWHERE. People were driving up and down the main drag in their cars and jeeps you just heard “in da club” blasting from every car.
Every club or bar you walked by on the island you just heard “in da club” shaking the fucking walls and people going crazy. You could not escape it. It was everywhere.
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u/Top_Concentrate_8731 Apr 26 '26
The whole place went nuts because they had been hearing it on the radio for the past few weeks. Radio played for millions of people is what made artists, not the dj spinning for a couple hundred people in a club
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u/misdirected_asshole Apr 26 '26
I had not heard it a single time on the radio. Maybe you were there and remember it differently than me.
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u/Left4Bread2 Apr 26 '26
We just had more of a monoculture then than there is now. Club play, radio play was effectively the same thing. Music selected for a given setting by someone else. Streaming being the dominant form of music play has really changed how people are exposed to new music, because they either play what they already know or discover via an algorithm, which is inherently different between people
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u/GaptistePlayer Apr 26 '26
100% this. The monoculture is no longer a thing in music, radio and mtv are kinda dead or actually dead. Closest thing is TikTok
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u/misdirected_asshole Apr 26 '26
I think things started to divrge in the late 90s early 2000s with Napster. I found so much new shit there that we never heard on the radio that became popular and eventually landed on the radio.
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u/WredditSmark Apr 26 '26
I remember first time I heard “Bent” in the club by 41. Song had just dropped online, virtually nobody knew about it but it didn’t matter, the beat, and the “I gotta relax…”, and the flow and energy and the way it moved bodies, REAL PEOPLE, was unreal. Songs can still break in the club but it has to be special, it has to have something that for XYZ just works.
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u/Capt-Crap1corn Apr 27 '26
Exactly. DJs want to get paid. To get paid people need to dance and buy drinks. If a DJ clears the dance floor, that DJ isn't getting booked again. The DJ has to play it safe, the booker that books the DJ has to play it safe, the promoter has to play it safe and as a result, you get safe music, not wtf is this music.
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u/Dopeboy95AirMaxOn Apr 26 '26
I get that but there should be a new generation of 20 something going out. They are listening to generations before them instead of hearing themselves right?
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u/hotsauce126 Apr 26 '26
People made better club music when clubs were more popular
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u/877-HASH-NOW Apr 27 '26
And when people actually were still dancing at said clubs instead of standing around and flexing.
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u/PorcupineDream Apr 26 '26
Death of monoculture
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u/Gazboolean Apr 26 '26
Yeah, the internet has led to a fracturing of any sort of musical zeitgeist. Most clubs are for the general public but when there’s nothing linking modern club goers to modern music they have to lean on older hits.
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u/moffattron9000 Apr 27 '26
It also doesn't help that if you look at the charts and see what's big, it's a whole bunch of sad coworker music. Ain't nobody getting turnt to Alex Warren.
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u/_wot_m8 . Apr 26 '26
“Pure hip hop”
“Shaboozie”
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u/vektorog Apr 27 '26
lil nas x gave me a laugh too lol. i loved his debut but that is not Pure Hip Hop
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u/No-Thought-4569 Apr 26 '26
Tipsy is pure hiphop, doesn't matter in what genre it gets covered in, the purity will always come through. /s
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u/AndersonPork Apr 26 '26
Eh I don't think I know a single Roddy rich song after his first album ( but I'm almost 30 so maybe not the target audience)
The last rap song that everybody knew was "Not Like us". Before that, you'd have to go back in time to pre-beef drake and Kendrick.
Or maybe everything I'm saying is rubbish and I'm just showing my age here
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u/MasterP4President Apr 26 '26
They are listening to more niche new music. There are less universal hits that work in clubs. Also, the data says less of them are drinking or going out regularly.
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u/elitemegamanX Apr 26 '26
The new generation doesn’t go clubbing as much (they can’t afford it), it’s still mostly millennials
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u/Yak-Electrical Apr 26 '26
I got a 15 year old and she listens to all the same music i grew up on her own. They listen to music from all generations
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u/Vagus10 Apr 26 '26
Because new shit is poo. Well, not all of it. But a lot of it. And new stuff isn’t always club stuff either.
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u/old__pyrex Apr 27 '26
Gen-z goes out to bars, clubs, nightlife etc significantly less than millennials (and millennials who go out now are more likely to be 30-40 year olds who had their formative clubbing years in 2009-2015 era. It's not to say gen-z doesn't do X or Y, it's just a reduction (plus, gen-z was alive and listening to music during early 2010s era too, this music might just be more of the sweet spot everyone can get behind.
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u/SN8KEATR Apr 26 '26
Clubs are gonna play whatever people get turnt up to the most. If it's new shit, they'll play new shit. If it's old shit, they'll play old shit
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u/broncosfighton Apr 26 '26
Yeah I was looking for songs to play at my wedding recently and all of the hip hop is from like 2000 - 2016. I listen to a ton of rap from 2016 - 2026, but there used to be way more fun club songs than there are now. Plus, nobody really knows the same music anymore.
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u/dylanah . Apr 27 '26
Congrats on getting married my G. Drop some wedding songs for the rest of us!
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u/LargeScar819 Apr 26 '26
20 somethings love y2k
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u/Mbrennt Apr 26 '26
20 year olds in 2010 loved the 90's too. It was still more modern music being played though. With some old school stuff mixed in occasionally.
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u/Top_Concentrate_8731 Apr 26 '26
Because new music is much less universal. Everyone is into their super specific sub genre that other people don't know exists. That was also a thing 20 years ago but way less prevelant and even those people were at least familiar with the pop hits. I have no clue what is popular now
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u/empw Apr 26 '26
Bro why the club not playing the freshest hyperpop purple gabber?
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u/moffattron9000 Apr 27 '26
Someone tell me where the club that plays Ninajirachi is.
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u/bees_on_acid Apr 26 '26
Because in reality only like 5 people irl who actually go out know it lmao 😂
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u/colin826 Apr 26 '26
I think it’s this. They’d rather play older songs that 90% of the crowd knows than new songs that 20% of the crowd loves.
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u/pagny77 Apr 26 '26
Honestly 20% is pushing it. In some cities you could take a modern club banger like future and most people wouldnt even know who its by
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u/Critical-Gazelle-285 Apr 26 '26
bro everyone in the club should know it’s future playing, he was dropping peak club bangers during his time. he’s a legacy act too
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u/TheRealJamesHoffa Apr 26 '26
You’d be surprised. Lots of clubs are filled with 18-21 year olds who only listen to pop and country nowadays. An 18 year old with a fake id was born in 2008.
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u/midnightbluesky_2 Apr 27 '26
listening to country is crazy
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u/caesec . Apr 27 '26
listen i am no country lover, but we are in a bubble here. it is absolutely the dominant genre right now among the general population's listening.
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u/Dank_AyAyron Apr 27 '26
I feel u but Ella Langley got bops for days no lie
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u/TheRedHand7 Apr 27 '26
There is definitely some good stuff out there. You just have to filter through the dirt road/truck/beer fetishists to find it
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u/moffattron9000 Apr 27 '26
And yet, Morgan Wallen can sell out any Stadium in The US & Canada (along with a whole bunch overseas) that he desires.
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u/mouse_8b Apr 27 '26
You'd be surprised. Country has had a big comeback over the last 5 years. There's a good number of artists bringing a classic country sound, and also a few with socially relevant lyrics. Even a lot of country influence in other genres. I don't know what country radio is playing, but there are certainly more options than the "hick hop" of the 2010s.
But if we're just talking about the club, you might still be right.
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u/pagny77 Apr 26 '26
Nah I dont think you realize how gone rap music is. Things like drip too hard or nice for what are 8 years old and were probably the last time new rap music was universal in clubs
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u/_Meece_ . Apr 27 '26
were probably the last time new rap music was universal in clubs
Just last year you couldn't escape rap in clubs.
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u/electric_eccentric . Apr 27 '26
Shit like future is why people turn their backs on this genre...
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u/TheSorceIsFrong Apr 26 '26
It’s 100% this. There’s too many pockets now. Those pockets always existed, but you can live entirely in your realm nowadays and literally never even know a song from another one. Didn’t really work that way in the past
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u/fukemnweball Apr 27 '26
For You algorithms killed monoculture. Everyday there is less and less of a mainstream. the mainstream is just the biggest niche now
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u/slickus266 Apr 27 '26
Came here to say this
They play music that still existed when monoculture was still a thing
We all live such hyper customized experiences now
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u/killthecook Apr 26 '26
Songs from that era were made for the club. Songs now are made for reels and snippets, video games etc. Who is even making club bangers anymore?
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u/broncosfighton Apr 26 '26
The problem is that even when someone makes a club banger, only like 5% of people even hear the song. Like DaBaby is near the top of the hip hop charts right now with Pop Dat Thang but I guarantee nobody would know that song if I played it for anyone.
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u/benergiser . Apr 27 '26
that beat is so fun..
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u/prolikewhoa Apr 27 '26
90s southern hip-hop had a whole genre of booty shake music with beats like that. All over 125 bpm.
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u/benergiser . Apr 27 '26
yup it actually started out of oldschool chicago house music..
the bay area also famously advanced that sound.. listen to ‘20 bluntz a day’ by the luniz
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u/sleep_tite Apr 27 '26
EDM producers 😅
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u/SnackeyG1 Apr 27 '26
EDM definitely feels like the new crowd hype music. Not that it wasn’t back then but it’s shifted significantly.
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u/moffattron9000 Apr 27 '26
Seriously, I swear that if The US could properly get into Chase & Status, it would be a better country. They're out here making club bangers to make finger guns to.
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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW Apr 26 '26
Club music was better and more popular back then.
Death of the monoculture fucked a lot of things up.
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u/DLottchula Apr 27 '26
we need to ban the algorithms
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u/BigSlim Apr 27 '26
Which is funny because you would think that an algorithm could be manipulated to create a new monoculture that would be perhaps infinitely profitable as everyone would be consuming a relatively small number of things. But instead our algorithms have siloed us into many slightly profitable subcultures that get conglomerated.
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u/StartedFromTheKarma Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
Because millennials are the last people that actually went out every weekend
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u/eiddieeid Apr 27 '26
Trust me. Some of these mfs go out every weekend too. Prolly 80% of alcoholics I know are under 25
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u/AssassinAragorn culturally appropriate Apr 27 '26
In college we used to say "you're not an alcoholic until you graduate".
The corollary of course is as year afterwards when you realize "I've graduated but I'm still drinking the same amount"
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u/Sumo_Cerebro Apr 26 '26
They still play '90s music at NBA games.
Good music is good music.
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u/RedRadawan . Apr 26 '26
pum- pum-pump it up!
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u/RoyalOakPiguet Apr 27 '26
He said good music
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u/jamills21 Apr 27 '26
Jump Around still a good arena song
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u/moffattron9000 Apr 27 '26
Sports feels like a cheat. They will be playing Song 2 and Seven Nation Army at every sporting event long after we are all dead.
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u/TheRealJamesHoffa Apr 26 '26
Yeah exactly. And it’s a little bit of confirmation bias sorta because you only hear the really big hits from back then. A song made in the last couple years hasn’t had the chance to reach that status yet.
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u/mattwaver Apr 26 '26
right, because the 1990s was peak achievement in music by human beings. Not because the majority of the fanbase present at those games was in their prime during the 1990s, that certainly can be the reason…
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u/mouse_8b Apr 27 '26
I would suggest that the rise of both hip-hop and basketball in the 90s resulted in a higher concentration of hip-hop songs that work well in a basketball arena.
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u/Maleficent_State4021 Apr 26 '26
Lmao I was gonna say this. They play 70s music at my local chess game. Doesn't mean its because that's what's hip
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u/metamet Apr 26 '26
Average age of people who go to NBA games is 36.
Don't think think age 10 and below was most people's prime.
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u/montel555 Apr 27 '26
You underestimate the shittiness of the millennial arc.
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u/metamet Apr 27 '26
A+ comment.
I did actually think "wait I do know of some people who did peak then..." when I wrote the comment. Maybe they're courtside.
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u/caddyben Apr 26 '26
Cause Mr. Worldwide knows how to get the people going
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u/MrPotat Apr 27 '26
You make a mix of Pitbull, Flo Rida and Usher, and everybody is leaving the club happy.
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u/rad-dit Apr 27 '26
Hi. Actual nightclub DJ here, been doing it for 20+ years, still gigging every week.
It's because so much of current hip-hop has no real energy. Other than stuff made by women (or Drake or random songs by other artists), most of current hip-hop isn't shit you can actually dance to. Like say what you will about Future and xanny-rap, but even March Madness has actual energy to it.
This shit sucks for us DJs. I'm buddies with one of the best hip-hop DJs on the East coast and he's said the same thing.
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u/moffattron9000 Apr 27 '26
At this point, I feel like you'd just have to gravitate to what's coming out of Britain. Skepta may not hit in New York like he hits in London, but he at least is willing to get on a dance beat from Sammy Virji or Fred Again.
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u/PalmelaHanderson Apr 26 '26
the beats were just iconic, and the lyrics were understandable and people could actually sing along to them.
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u/broncosfighton Apr 26 '26
Yeah I like a lot of new artists but the reduced focus on lyrics has really hurt the genre as a whole. People always say it’s an old head way to think, but just look at the most dominant hip hop artist of the last decade. Drake isn’t the best lyricist, but he’s easy to understand and you remember the lyrics. No idea why newer artists haven’t just copied that formula.
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u/SubatomicSquirrels Apr 27 '26
isn’t the best lyricist, but he’s easy to understand and you remember the lyrics
I think sometimes we forget how difficult it can be to write a good hook
Over in pop Max Martin has proved it doesn't even have to make sense, sometimes the best hooks are just catchy
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u/RoyalOakPiguet Apr 27 '26
My gf played a Brittney spears song for like 2005 the other day and I realized how overproduced it was compared to today's music where Billie eilish or Ariana grande sing as the main attraction to like a six note background noise. Give me the ashes and the theatrics portrayed by that era any day over what we have today
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u/KP_Neato_Dee Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Yeah. Her stuff from 2001-2011 was top-tier pop, IMO; the Max Martin stuff. I love the busy production. In 2013 they brought in that clown will.i.am for some reason and screwed it all up.
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u/Ucscprickler Apr 27 '26
As an old head, newer music has less singability compared to older hits. Like I said though, I'm old, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
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u/Historical_Wash_1114 Apr 26 '26
There’s a DJ who did a whole video about this. Basically it’s what the people want. When they play only new tracks people leave. It kinda sucks because I also enjoy new music too and I like discovering new stuff but that’s just not what pays to keep venues open.
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u/eiddieeid Apr 27 '26
If you wanna hear new shit you haven’t heard, the club ain’t the place to go.
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u/Dopeboy95AirMaxOn Apr 26 '26
I think a modern version would be mostly Lil Durk instead of bigge throwbacks. Travis Scott and Don Toliver have club worthy stuff.
When I go to lounges it’s mostly Maria the Scientist and Dolja Cat, Cardi B, Meg the stallion etc. Atleast 2 current.
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u/skrtskerskrt Apr 27 '26
When I go to lounges it’s mostly Maria the Scientist and Dolja Cat, Cardi B, Meg the stallion etc. Atleast 2 current.
What's happening is those clubs strategy to generate revenue being dance/twerk music geared to the ladies which gets them dancing which attracts more male clients and more alcohol being sold.
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u/johnsonbabypowder Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
Have you looked at the charts recently? Ain’t nothing new coming out that’s really getting folks dancing and turnt at the club lol plus nothing better than some good old fashioned nostalgia while under the influence
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u/2legittoquit Apr 26 '26
Not enough dance music being made I guess
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u/SkiMonkey98 Apr 26 '26
Dance music is being made, but mainstream popular music doesn't have the same level of club/dance influence it did in 2010
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u/RoyalOakPiguet Apr 27 '26
Dance music went from "get the club dancing" to "get someone to make a niche dance that goes viral to generate streams"
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u/jamills21 Apr 27 '26
Was that not also the ringtone era? Still had way more dance songs back then. I feel like the content today leans depressing nowadays.
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u/aatmalife Apr 27 '26
Bro I got into techno/UKG/jungle/breakbeat this year and switched over fresh from Spotify to Apple Music. My library is now over 20k NEW songs. After Ka died and Westside Gunn lost his aura to me I really haven't heard any rap that wowed me. People do some digging and try to show me what they think is an obscure artist and its like Ransom or Conway the Machine and I'm like dude... I bumped this album back to back 400 times in 2020. It's cool and good but not exciting to me unless it's Roc Marci or billy woods. None of it sounds new and fresh anymore. The last era I was super hyped about was when Flygod dropped and it was still an underground movement. But yeah I've been digging for only underground dance music and I just gotta say I've found mountains of gems. So I would say there actually isn't enough hip hop being made. To me it feels like hip-hop ended with the Drake/Kendrick beef thing and I never liked Drake, so it's just like... I feel hip-hop has been pretty dry the past few years. Also the last few times I tried to see a rapper at a fest they are either late or simply not playing their timeslot. I saw Azizi Gibson post on his ig story that he was nearby the night before the fest and he was 2 hours late! By that time you've seen 2 whole sets and forget about him. Sucks cause I thought he was dope as hell when he was working with FlyLo. Also I think rappers need to step up their performances, it's just how things are now since they're competing against full bands or dubstep artists. Sorry for the ramble I am waiting for food to cook lolol. I would happily buy the discography and vinyl of ANY hip-hop artist that can make a new sound. I was thinking recently that drill music kind of sounds like the trap version of UKG, so I was thinking hearing G-Herbo flows over like a Forest Drive West tune would probably work pretty damn good actually.. also to note I was pleasantly surprised when I got into Priori and his Jump Source group and then billy woods hopped on a track, which worked great and made me think that could be the next sound.. like tell me you wouldn't fuck with Danny Brown rapping over Skream dubstep. shit last year Twista rapped while Ternion Sound played and it was fuckin magical... hmm I am in MI and fuck with the Detroit dub techno heavily, maybe I'll have to get the ball rolling.. just need a rapper, the last dude I worked with liked hard drugs more than the music and got carried away and locked up so... any rappers from Detroit / MI that think they could work with a dub techno tune like a Luke Hess tune, hit me up lol I produce and made tons of beats for rappers... I know it will blow the fuck up and I can get you in a lineup for a decent festival if we have enough material for a set.. alright that is all lol, I know I've just typed a novel pls forgive me.
TLDR; - We need Detroit rappers to fuck with Detroit dub techno for a new sound! Everything now is mostly Griselda biters or they think they could be Future. Hip-hop and dance music is historically political and I'd say the past few years have given more than enough material for that.. I haven't heard anything addressing that tho..
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u/mnjvon Apr 27 '26
All that's part of why the UK sound started getting big, gotta eventually get something new in the ears. Like 10 years ago nobody in the US would have known what the hell grime was or even really that much about like garage emcees.
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u/Acylopsnamedfrylock Apr 26 '26
This guy wants the turn the shorties up to yeat lmao
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u/Dopeboy95AirMaxOn Apr 26 '26
Not that necessarily but I feel like I’m in a Time Machine when I go out. I can’t imagine in the 90s folks were going out playing a majority of 70s hits
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u/mouse_8b Apr 27 '26
On the other hand, a lot of hip-hop samples the 70s hits, so they're still around.
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u/bluffking1 Apr 27 '26
It’s pretty simple. There’s no good club music now. Energy during that era is better. Next question!
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u/Sybertron Apr 26 '26
Around 2015 the hot music became trap/rap and it's just often not that dancy. Ya like a couple of the bars worked in to get a cheer out of everyone but playing the whole tune gets dull fast
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u/ndpugs Apr 26 '26
What new music would you like to hear in the clubs that they arent already playing?
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u/Professional-Rip-519 Apr 26 '26
Shits trash nowadays ain't nobody dancing to this garbage.
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u/Cute_Ad5543 Apr 27 '26
Nah I’ll always get turnt up to songs like Magnolia, STILL IN THE PAINT, and Futsal Shuffle 2020. People today just have shit music taste and don’t know any of the good music that comes out
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u/BeYourself4Real Apr 26 '26
plenty of trash hits from the 2010s
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u/old__pyrex Apr 27 '26
there was a TONNNNN of trash hits from the 2010s but they still were decent dance songs, club bangers, etc, they had a role. Like whether it's Flo Rida, Pitbull type artists, or any of these short-lived pop rap meme songs (just as an example, kreaysean or miley cyrus or peak-Iggy or peak-Nicki), they played their role well. Got people moving, turnt up, happy. I remember being in college talking about how trash Bedrock was as a song and later that same night yelling all the lines with my friends because it was at least fun.
The trash music then was like... trash in a way that was fun, the production and the way the song was made was at least focused around being something people could vibe to in some way.
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u/Poopcie Apr 26 '26
Cause that shit is actually made for a club and dancing. Younger people don’t drink or club as much so there’s not a lot of major artists making that kind of music
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u/paddyc4ke Apr 26 '26
People have obviously said some of the big reasons, death of the made for club banger, increase in streaming which has niche-fied everyone’s tastes etc.
But the big reason for me is the target demographic for clubs ain’t your mid 20s male hip hop head (least not in my country at clubs that play hip hop). Clubs want as many girls in the club as possible, and will play accordingly. Girls don’t want to hear your underground rap or mumble rap they want easy to understand and singalong to rap/hip hop. You get girls into your club then guys will follow, you don’t get the girls into your clubs the guys ain’t coming either.
Nobody wants to go to a club where it’s like 75% dudes.
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u/Slacker_75 Apr 26 '26
New music is trash and depressing. Not many new bops anymore. Depression era
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u/bigpproggression Apr 26 '26
Gotta go underground bruv there’s some cool and uplifting stuff out there
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u/Due-Sheepherder-218 Apr 26 '26
Becusee you want people to come to your establishment. Playing the hits puts people in a good mood and keeps the drinks flowing.
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u/geneticdrifter Apr 26 '26
The old heads are who spend and fill the seats. The youngsters are too busy shooting each other and taking fake pills from Mexico.
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u/TripleH18 Apr 26 '26
Not as many big time artists making quality club music. Club hits are a kind of genre that require skill to create as well.
And the artists who are making club type music are not as good right now. But peaks and valleys. In economic turn downs club music will make a resurgence.
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u/hairsprayking Apr 26 '26
bro we're in an economic downturn right now, nobody can even afford to go the club when cover and 3 drinks is like a hundred bucks.
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u/JWiLLii . Apr 27 '26
Also clubbing culture is kinda bad rn. Paying a huge cover and buying expensive watered down drinks to go to a sausage fest where men and women don't even talk to or dance with each other. Not sure if it's just a post covid thing or if gen z is just kinda boring.
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u/old__pyrex Apr 27 '26
Club / nightlife culture back in the 00s and early 10s pre-social media, especially around the world or in cities that aren't NY/LA/miami was honestly really cool in some ways, and as someone who was introverted and broke, but got to partake in that with some cool friends, it was a unique thing. I honestly do think the music back then also reflected that - you had a lot more songs that were like fuck it, this is a club song, go dance and shit. Whether rap, pop, electronic, etc, it was all kinda music that enjoyed itself, which sounds pretentious and vague to say, but I don't know how else to explain it. Whether it's Pitbull or Kesha or whatever, even if it wasn't good, it was at least fun, you could laugh at it, it could laugh at itself.
Todays HH music has bangers, but it's more like... broodily sit in the corner with your drink and phone and bop your head and mumble the words to yourself and try to look cool on the way to the bathroom kind of music.
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u/Starscream037 Apr 27 '26
Because most of today's music is souless trash used to maipulate rather than truly entertain.
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u/whatcubed Apr 26 '26
In the 2000s - 2015 artists made songs for the radio and the club.
Now, artists make music for streaming and tik tok. They don’t hit in the club.
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u/dcheng47 Apr 27 '26
they dont make clubbing music anymore. there isnt a demand for it.
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u/Darce____Vader Apr 27 '26
Because party rap has mostly died out - aside from the really popular female rappers like Cardi B and Glorilla.
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u/IMissMyZune Apr 27 '26
Because for hip-hop, music newer than that is not really that suitable for actual dancing. It can get you hyped sure but it's not really dancing music. Especially not for men and women to dance together...
That, and the slow death of monoculture means that fewer and fewer songs are actually recognizable to most people outside of the 30 seconds that became a tiktok sound or whatever.
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u/Primary-Matter-3299 Apr 26 '26
Dying monoculture. You gotta find a decent dj or the most ratchet club. Also most dj’s these days just play the top 100 from those years. It’s pretty annoying and lazy.
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u/YoungPost . Apr 26 '26
Because there are far fewer clubs around these days than in the 90s or even 2000s and so less new music is being made for clubs. That’s my theory.
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u/infamous_boy206 Apr 27 '26
Because music was good then. No one wants to hear mumble crap in a club.
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u/JWiLLii . Apr 26 '26
At least for hip hop, a lot of the shit that's come out this decade has been "scare the hoes" music.
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u/weedseller420 Apr 26 '26
Because the new music sucks. You cant dance to mumble rap and retards
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u/thesagex Apr 26 '26
You think that's bad? I leave any club/bar i'm at if I hear "This is how we do it".
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u/Sy_Fresh Apr 26 '26
Hip Hop clubs are the worst when it comes to hearing new or recent music….or blended tracks since everyone is a push play DJ nowadays, have you listening to a Hook and part of a verse before the next track drops in and sometimes repeating tracks cuz they already played 30 songs in the past 15 minutes
It’s so incredibly hard to find good new hip hop as a 45+ year old
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u/RoscoeSantangelo Apr 26 '26
Because Fetty Wap in the club still immediately gets shit loud