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🚨 Akademiks says the REAL reason hip hop feels stagnant isn’t Drake or Kendrick, it’s that labels are making so much money from OLD music they have less incentive to build the next generation. Ak says that’s why he keeps criticizing Kendrick, New York, Atlanta and the rest of the industry, arguing Drake alone can’t carry hip hop and the genre is missing the “middle class” of artists who used to sell 60K to 80K. He points to Drake as the perfect example, saying while ICEMAN was the #1 hip hop album, Take Care, Views and Scorpion were still sitting among the genre’s biggest albums years later. “The labels are making money hand over fist… just collecting on the old shit.” Ak argues the industry would rather keep monetizing proven catalogs than spend heavily building new artists and campaigns. “So when you ask, ‘Why did the party die?’… the industry is telling you.”