The Advent of the Meme Rapper

Mainstream, underground, gangster, backpack, conscious, horrorcore, it seems as though we have dozens of subcategories for rappers. Over the past few years we’ve witnessed the birth of one more, and it’s one that has come about completely naturally, and has the shortest lifespan for a career. Today, we are in the golden era of the meme rapper.

Meme rappers are the love-child of the internet meme and the one hit wonder, and they’re making Andy Warhol’s prediction that, “In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes” more literal than ever.

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