How Mumble Rap Saved Rap

What do Lil Uzi Vert, Future and Playboi Carti all have in common? They all saved rap at one point. The genre of rap was created in the 1970s, it started with an individual rhyming over a beat. Now rap is a lot more different. The new style is called Mumble rap. 

Mumble rap is when the artist uses ad-libs such as Yeah, Wow and ESKETIT. Along with these ad-libs are lyrics that have no significance. Mumble rap is popular due to the fact that it has saved rap for the better. Before mumble rap, artist would rap about their problems that no one really cares about.

Mumble rap takes a different approach. A typical song starts off with a catchy beat with a 808. If you don't know what an 808 then go do your research, and then comeback! Along with a ignorant beat comes ignorant lyrics. Here is a example of a Playboi Carti lyric, "Shawty wanna ball with the team. Money sitting tall, Yao Ming." As you can tell these lyrics are not the deepest, but it allows the listener to escape whatever is going on in there life to relax, or to be ignorant. 

Many older rap heads and Joe Budden do not like mumble rap because it does not have substance. Yes, they are right. Rap these days do not have a lot of meaning to it, but we are living in a different time. Music is suppose to be fun, and allow the listener to feel some type of way. Meaningful lyric are too much sometimes. Hate it or not, mumble rap not only saved rap, but as well as music. 

Here are 3 songs to help you on your Mumble rap Journey: