What is a soundcloud rap? About the newborn subgenre of hip-hop wrote Forbes. The creator of the animated series "Rick and Morty" comes up with a VR-game for Playstation, the soundtrack to which make Bones and Casper - one of the brightest representatives of the current. Tracks Lil Pump and Lil Uzi Vert lead on the official Billboard charts. Download them you can here. Meanwhile, the very definition of "soundcloud rap" is rather blurred, despite the official Wikipedia page.
The basis for soundcloud rap is not the cause, but the effect, the collision of circumstances and the confusion of genres / influences. Soundcloud rap is not a particular scene (West Coast / East Coast, as was the case with old-school hip-hop), but rather a position. There is a playground (service SoundCloud), which was occupied by a generation of new artists united by a common spirit, but strikingly different in details.

According to the Urban Dictionary, "the soundcloud rapper is a rapper who writes shitty songs into an old microphone from the console and downloads them to SoundCloud for his brother." This rough definition of reality that best describes the reality best expresses the position of new rappers who do not want to play by the rules, but rewrite this game for themselves.

The age of artists is also important (most often - at least at the start of a career - up to 20 years). Age assumes the level of reflection of soundcloud rappers, their emotional conflict with themselves and the world (this can be seen from the texts). And, of course, the instant loyalty of the audience: the same young and eternally lost generation, who got their heroes "here and now." Even the emo genre, which had fallen to the very bottom before, gained a new birth in the tracks of soundcloud rappers. Because for them emo is youth and one of the brightest musical impressions, the soundtrack of youth. As you know, they do not betray youth.