Re: "Is Horrorcore Dead?" - A Civil Discussion
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2022 8:42 pm
This is a conversation I've had a few times. As someone who was creeping on the forums in the late 2000s but stepped away from the genre for awhile, I feel like its not completely dead but the landscape has changed.
Horrorcore was an outsider artform but I feel like hip hop and its culture as a whole has evolved to be more accepting of dark themes within the music. This is why artist like Ghostmane, $uicideboys, and even Tyler the Creator were able to get as popular as they are.
With this embrace of dark subject matter also came a blow to horrorcore as a whole, not becuase the artist I mentioned are making the same music but becuase the kids who would have been on the forums and into horrorcore back in the day have other options that fill a similar niche.
I don't necessarily think horrorcore is dead, there are def people still pushing the music forward. Darby O'Trill being one of them. That being said there are probably only a few artist still releases horrorcore or horrorcore adjacent music that I closely follow (Darby, Komatose, Jakprogresso, and A.X.E.). I still love the albums I grew up with (was bumping Tales of Woe earlier today) but like there isn't allot going on in horrorcore that I get genuinely excited about besides the 4 artist mentioned above.
I feel like I even started filling my horrorcore niche with other artists for awhile. Mainly Sadistik... he's not horrorcore but he probably references more horror films than most horrorcore rappers.
Horrorcore was an outsider artform but I feel like hip hop and its culture as a whole has evolved to be more accepting of dark themes within the music. This is why artist like Ghostmane, $uicideboys, and even Tyler the Creator were able to get as popular as they are.
With this embrace of dark subject matter also came a blow to horrorcore as a whole, not becuase the artist I mentioned are making the same music but becuase the kids who would have been on the forums and into horrorcore back in the day have other options that fill a similar niche.
I don't necessarily think horrorcore is dead, there are def people still pushing the music forward. Darby O'Trill being one of them. That being said there are probably only a few artist still releases horrorcore or horrorcore adjacent music that I closely follow (Darby, Komatose, Jakprogresso, and A.X.E.). I still love the albums I grew up with (was bumping Tales of Woe earlier today) but like there isn't allot going on in horrorcore that I get genuinely excited about besides the 4 artist mentioned above.
I feel like I even started filling my horrorcore niche with other artists for awhile. Mainly Sadistik... he's not horrorcore but he probably references more horror films than most horrorcore rappers.