X was mysterious asf until he went on revenge tour. From the underground right up until look at me dropped he was basically doing what carti is doing now.
@@wicah9587 he was i cant remember when but he said so on ig and in interviews he would try and hide his age but after the lawsuit he started to stop being purposefully mysterious to show his positive influence
I like how The Weeknd started his career without much personal information, and later did “magazine” interviews allowing fans to get more familiar with his true self without have to do media runs which I am sure is annoying
I think it’s good that artists take a step back from social media and you kinda have to put the image or the perception of a person together for yourself. These days are so oversaturated with social media, influencers and media bullshit. The 2013/2014 instagram times were golden, when there was genuine interaction from a artist and a lot of personal insight. These days theres a fucking social media strategy behind every little thing and it gets annoying real quick. Don't get me wrong, the fake mysteriousness can be annoying too, especially if it does not really fit the artist, but in general it would be cool to see the music industry or artists taking a step back from social media and not overflowing everything to the point it gets too much. Its a thin line tho
Or maybe you can use your head and realize that the market is insanely oversaturated and you need to have aspects of your music and persona that stand out among the drab of boring clones. Clearly these artists stand out because they push a certain aesthetic towards a certain group of people. You might think it’s meaningless but it’s actually genius marketing.
Back in the day all artist were like dat, no one knew anything bout the members of Led Zepellin and there where a lot of ''legends'' bout the artist bc of that, today u know everything bc of social media and in my humble opinion that sucksssss
Greatfuckinvideo bobbin u too as well you are implementing the blueprint UA-camrs alike have took. taken . To reach a new audience and level up . Keepitup thiz content fi
Y'all calling these rappers mysterious cause they make they music an stay out the way.. Which is how music should be... Blueface gets talked about for his drama meanwhile playboi carti goes viral every song cause he's not doing interviews and arguing on the net
Asap rocky barely drop I think he’s the main handler cus him nd Ian definitely got a say n carti music plus I think the ppl carti been around been holding him back
@@2stout2shako2d6 last song I heard from him was the one he dropped w nigo but haven’t heard nun since but I’m saying since he pretty much carti boss I think he has a say when nd how tht man drop
Carti is only on bc of Uzi 🤣 Uzi was already as big as Durk when he decided to work with a no name artist carti 🤷🏽♂️😂on top of that carti will never sell what Uzi has ever album Uzi released is platinum Carti is 1/3 😂
Even in 2015 when I first found out about carti he was pretty mysterious, although he gained a lot of new fans who annoy me, I can’t deny his talent and I enjoy his music. It’s crazy, going to a carti concert in 2015 and seeing the fanbase there compared to today is wild to me
lmfaooo there is no way yall take the opium shi serious let alone hate the fans like evb is being serious most ppl are conry on purpose and trolling and u fall for it i cant say the same ab kpop and tayor swift fans they are truly terrifying and annoyingg @@leaks2.073
The mysterious rapper epidemic came with the start of music tbh , micheal Jackson WASNT popping out like that , niethrr was prince, the more you give yourself to the audience the less respect/craving they have for some reason it like makes you human to the mass instead of this icon , if carti , uzi , ski mask , trippie , yeat etc tweeted there every move y’all wouldn’t care , that’s y when you saw mj ppl cried and passsed out , he was rare sighting
It’s not dat MJ remained mysterious it’s dat he was born in a time where social media wasn’t a thing, he couldn’t just post and da whole world see it. People only knew him from whatever poster or cover art they had so when they finally saw him it’s feels unreal.
MJ was a poster child in the 70s for the Jackson 5 and Prince was dropping multiple albums EVERY year. They were VERY relevant in the media especially Prince in the 90s with the Slave thing and changing his name.
YOU MISSED OUT ON HOW “THE WEEKND” WAS MYSTERIOUS WHEN HE FIRST CAME OUT WITH HOUSE OF BALLOONS BEFORE FRANK OCEAN & CARTI COME ON MAN DO YOUR HOMEWORK
I think having a rockstar persona and being mysterious while also dropping music is cool, but I don't think it should be an excuse for lazyness. You can't really justify the amount of hype around an artist for being mysterious if they're only dropping one track after 4 years of abstinence.
An honorable mention, is definitely Tyler the creator, each new album he drops he hints at in whatever award he wins, in like his shirts, briefcases will have the next album name, and don’t forget during the highly awaited wolf project was very anticipated after bastard, and when goblin dropped instead, no one knew if it was coming out still or not, and the whole wolf trilogy theory of the first three Tyler albums is all very mysterious lol
i dont think its really a problem i think from the 2016 to around 2019 rappers were always doing a lot of clout chasing online to quickly gain a following for example 6ix9ine and lil pump just to name a few. but what we saw from these rappers is that they can easily crash out and their career quickly dies. And what i think is happening is rappers are taking more time to actually live life and work on music rather than doing unnecessary clout chasing. And it seems to be working, look at some of the best artists we have today carti, tyler, kanye just to name a few they can take almost 2 years to put out a body of work and the fans are rarely disappointed. although i do think some rappers force the act but who really cares. edit: look at the rapper who were doing a lot of '"clout chasing" a few years back and how their fans react and treat their music right now. the biggest examples being lil uzi vert and trippie redd
i think its actually social media, constant attention seeking, & overly fast paced everything that is plaguing not just the music industry but the world.
the weeknd pioneered the shit in pop music. tbh nobody even exists in the wave besides him. be he got way to big so even tho there is still a mistique it’s hard to say he’s mysterious at this point. being that he’s consistently a top 3 biggest artist in the world in every category every year for more than 7 years straight. hip hop is the only genre that can have this amount of them while being almost or low end mainstream because of how niche driven hip can be and how big certain niches start to trend. hence carti, doom, asap rocky until he was with riri ofc. frank ocean is another outlier like the weeknd although he’s not really as pop as the weeknd grew to be but he was more pop than the weeknd when the weeknd was THE mysterious artist during trilogy to beauty behind the madness eras. frank is like r&b indie pop. dude is really one of one
either you complain artists flood or wash out genres by releasing too much and then get mad when artists sit and actually build they craft on they own time thats the whole pro of being independent you don't have a label giving you due dates you just release when you want ...
i feel like the thing is this mysterious thing WAS the norm before social media. Back then all you got was the music and you'd hope to get some good info on an artist in the paper, magazine, or radio. Take for example SADE. IMO the social media thing is getting played out with the more artists coming out. I can't care about 50 mfing lives. 10 mfers going live. All i can really put time into is MY LIFE str8 up and simply the music. Like wit carti iggy be tryna bring mans down but in reality who gaf. We hear for the music. Don't get me wrong i wish the best in general for his kids her kids they lives in general but shi all that life shit not my life so how and why would i care.
yeah I was super interested in what kinda music SoFaygo would eventually drop after that major Trippie Redd song he featured in, but everytime I would search his name up it would only be more features on other artist's music and I just wanted to explore Faygo's solo stuff, its astonishing he waited 2 years to drop, that is not acceptable
this "epidemic" is actually nothing new, i first realized when i started listening to Bones in 2013 that being mysterious, not really communicating with fans and revealing very little (if anything) about your life outside of maybe just the occasional lyrics is a very effective marketing strategy . the really dark photography about Bones when i first became a fan of him and the fact that almost nothing is known about this guy and how he almost never responds to fans had me wanting to fan even more and it didn't take me long back then to realize i wasn't the only one who felt this way. there is something very peculiar about wanting to follow the mysterious (for lack of better words). about 10 years later everyone does some variant of the "mysterious" thing and i can't blame anyone since it's proven to work overall just really glad a video has been made about this phenomenon since almost everything you said in the intro alone has been on my mind for the last 10 years
@@Bobbalam everyone has rap but is not considered a rapper. You are just putting him in the thumbnail cause he's black. If the title was different I'll be ok, but u said RAPPER EPIDEMIC 😭😭
Mf Doom was so mysterious nobody knew he even died til a year later, thats wyld
A month, right?
X was mysterious asf until he went on revenge tour. From the underground right up until look at me dropped he was basically doing what carti is doing now.
x stayed mysterious though, and he was unpredictable , no one ever knew what was gonna happen next
Whats goated about jah is i don’t think he was trying to be.his influence goes underlooked an his aura was crazy
@@wicah9587 he was i cant remember when but he said so on ig and in interviews he would try and hide his age but after the lawsuit he started to stop being purposefully mysterious to show his positive influence
no he wasnt he was on twitter tweeting his ass off and on vine msging people
@@domikatz yk u can be on social media and still be mysterious 😭
I like how The Weeknd started his career without much personal information, and later did “magazine” interviews allowing fans to get more familiar with his true self without have to do media runs which I am sure is annoying
10:10 the glazing is crazy😭😭😭
insane dicksuck i agree lmfao
But is he wrong tho?
Since Frank isn’t a rapper, mystery works in rnb like how Sza didn’t drop for 7 years and then dropped SOS and now she’s everywhere again
actually the mask of MF DOOM is heavily inspired by the movie Gladiator
Thank u heistein
go make some afro type beats for yo 20 subs @@caesar5128
I think it’s good that artists take a step back from social media and you kinda have to put the image or the perception of a person together for yourself. These days are so oversaturated with social media, influencers and media bullshit.
The 2013/2014 instagram times were golden, when there was genuine interaction from a artist and a lot of personal insight. These days theres a fucking social media strategy behind every little thing and it gets annoying real quick. Don't get me wrong, the fake mysteriousness can be annoying too, especially if it does not really fit the artist, but in general it would be cool to see the music industry or artists taking a step back from social media and not overflowing everything to the point it gets too much. Its a thin line tho
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When your music is meaningless you have rely on gimmicks to get by 🤷🏽♂️
Or maybe you can use your head and realize that the market is insanely oversaturated and you need to have aspects of your music and persona that stand out among the drab of boring clones. Clearly these artists stand out because they push a certain aesthetic towards a certain group of people. You might think it’s meaningless but it’s actually genius marketing.
as much as i fw with carti and opium, the glazing is at max sha boing boing
that thumbnail is fire😍
Yeah my guy went off
this is a brilliant analysis bruh
Anyone can get Rick it doesn’t sell out it’s just expensive
That mysterious stuff used to work a few years ago. It doesn’t work today as much
frank been mysterious for the longest idc
I would rapper someone be mysterious and stay off social media as much as possible than be annoying asf like Trippie Redd or Doja Cat.
The Weeknd when he first dropped his first 3 mixtapes I couldn't find a selfie or what the man looked like anywhere online.
This might just be me but maybe them being mysterious is not that maybe they just don't want people in their personal life.
IG & TikTok don’t pay us to post
One of ur best vids of this type yet
mentioning DOOM in this video is so important.
lil b the based god
Congrats! I love the video Fam!
genuinely who cares i don’t wanna know these mfs
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@phantom_mserafi🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴
Back in the day all artist were like dat, no one knew anything bout the members of Led Zepellin and there where a lot of ''legends'' bout the artist bc of that, today u know everything bc of social media and in my humble opinion that sucksssss
Sofaygo wasn't trying to be mysterious he couldn't drop coz of the astrofest tragedy don toliver was lucky to drop before it happened
I’m tryna be Carti not Mike
You should make more videos like this bob
You nailed it
Greatfuckinvideo bobbin u too as well you are implementing the blueprint UA-camrs alike have took. taken . To reach a new audience and level up . Keepitup thiz content fi
20:04 beat drop was tuff ngl
This video fire 🔥
Y'all calling these rappers mysterious cause they make they music an stay out the way.. Which is how music should be... Blueface gets talked about for his drama meanwhile playboi carti goes viral every song cause he's not doing interviews and arguing on the net
What's the background song during the Faygo part?
Yuh
I want playboy carti I want to talk like a child
MF DOOM!!! KIng geedorah!!! Viktor Vaughn!!!! Monsta Island Czars!!!
15:44
lmfao
Asap rocky barely drop I think he’s the main handler cus him nd Ian definitely got a say n carti music plus I think the ppl carti been around been holding him back
Rocky jus scared. Culture has evolved so much since Testing. The way he raps will not hit today
@@2stout2shako2d6 last song I heard from him was the one he dropped w nigo but haven’t heard nun since but I’m saying since he pretty much carti boss I think he has a say when nd how tht man drop
Day 1058 of bobbalam glazing carti and yeat 😂😂😂 but I respect his undying love and loyalty for them lowkey 💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥
8:00 uzi was hating on carti while he was talking, that’s when carti was like ight see what happens in the future
Carti is only on bc of Uzi 🤣 Uzi was already as big as Durk when he decided to work with a no name artist carti 🤷🏽♂️😂on top of that carti will never sell what Uzi has ever album Uzi released is platinum
Carti is 1/3 😂
@@100K-Pollothis what niggas dont wanna hear but its true
yeat x playboi
the mysterious shit is so corny
Metr00 B00min, he kinda hypocrite idk lol
Bro ur not reselling Rick tf😭😭😭
AI
If fans know already, they listen because its good, this is why tyler>carti and his clones
Man WHO tf is being mysterious??? Is it a trend? Most rappers i listen to new/old not on this wave so who tf y’all listening to
Only Gen Z crying about Rappers being Mysterious stop crying because y'all can't get y'all way 😂
It aint mysterious, theyre just old
BJ YOUNG IS THE HOTTEST
SOLUTION
10:49 out of context but why doesn’t homixide gang also utilise the “mysterious” persona. I think that’s why lone and Ken are in the spotlight
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Nobody mentions him but Bones was one of the first "mysterious" guys. He also helped start the whole "vhs aesthetic" in rap
Facts
finally someone respect the one of underground legend
Dude bones is one of the most underrated goats
Nah it was Lil UgllyMane. He predates Bones doing that thing. Literally nobody even knew what he looked like when dropped Mista Thug Isolation
he was mysterious but in that good way. Similar to people like MF Doom or something. not in this pseudo way.
Even in 2015 when I first found out about carti he was pretty mysterious, although he gained a lot of new fans who annoy me, I can’t deny his talent and I enjoy his music. It’s crazy, going to a carti concert in 2015 and seeing the fanbase there compared to today is wild to me
uzi was mysterious too when he started out
shut up, weren’t you just meat riding mario judah in this guys comments calling carti fans cornballs💀
@@myronn6396but not that over the top like carti
I miss the old Carti fans. Opium is the greatest crime that has ever happened in pop culture music. I say that as a Carti fan.
lmfaooo there is no way yall take the opium shi serious let alone hate the fans like evb is being serious
most ppl are conry on purpose and trolling and u fall for it
i cant say the same ab kpop and tayor swift fans they are truly terrifying and annoyingg @@leaks2.073
Lol that the whole point of being a Artist. You speak through your work 💯
I agree, I was more saying you have to ease into it as you grow or you’ll fall off
“Rappers are mysterious” Drake on live “ANITA MAX WYNN😩”
The mysterious rapper epidemic came with the start of music tbh , micheal Jackson WASNT popping out like that , niethrr was prince, the more you give yourself to the audience the less respect/craving they have for some reason it like makes you human to the mass instead of this icon , if carti , uzi , ski mask , trippie , yeat etc tweeted there every move y’all wouldn’t care , that’s y when you saw mj ppl cried and passsed out , he was rare sighting
I agree. But social media gave artists access to posting a lot so
MJ was literally everywhere haha.
It’s not dat MJ remained mysterious it’s dat he was born in a time where social media wasn’t a thing, he couldn’t just post and da whole world see it. People only knew him from whatever poster or cover art they had so when they finally saw him it’s feels unreal.
MJ was a poster child in the 70s for the Jackson 5 and Prince was dropping multiple albums EVERY year. They were VERY relevant in the media especially Prince in the 90s with the Slave thing and changing his name.
ppl been done it on other genres than just rappers
IG & TikTok don’t pay us to post
If you put your music behind your post on insta your distro pays you
not true
Being mysterious is keeping people on edge while adding witty confusion , people like what they don’t understand
YOU MISSED OUT ON HOW
“THE WEEKND” WAS MYSTERIOUS WHEN HE FIRST CAME OUT WITH HOUSE OF BALLOONS BEFORE FRANK OCEAN & CARTI
COME ON MAN DO YOUR HOMEWORK
Metro boomin exposed drake inna perfect way drake aint got shit to be mysterious bout 😂
It works for Kendrick and Frank because they lay it all out there in the music, Carti and em is cool but it’s a fad you can’t be this way forever
Fr
Rip MF DOOM
Do you listen to his alter egos?
Yup! King Geedorah, Viktor Vaughn etc@@newchillzone224
Bob you need to give your editor a raise
He did 😂
@@BobbalamW
It’s not that their “ mysterious “ it’s just they are regular people that make music. Social media is toxic
I think having a rockstar persona and being mysterious while also dropping music is cool, but I don't think it should be an excuse for lazyness. You can't really justify the amount of hype around an artist for being mysterious if they're only dropping one track after 4 years of abstinence.
Editing in this is fireee
13:30 “But as in most things in life the grass is always greener on the other side “. Bro what ?😂😂😂
Shoutout to Daft Punk, the most early, relevant, modern example of mysterious artists.
But they make it cool, not like carti
An honorable mention, is definitely Tyler the creator, each new album he drops he hints at in whatever award he wins, in like his shirts, briefcases will have the next album name, and don’t forget during the highly awaited wolf project was very anticipated after bastard, and when goblin dropped instead, no one knew if it was coming out still or not, and the whole wolf trilogy theory of the first three Tyler albums is all very mysterious lol
Don’t really see how you can say that since he seems to just be a pick me guy.
@@phantom_mserafihow?
tbh if i was famous i think i would be "mysterious" too fame fucking sucks in the grand scheme of things
Being mysterious doesn’t take away from someone recognizing you in public
i hate these type of rappers i cant name one playboi caty song but everyone cant shut up about him
You can’t name it but you probably hear it everywhere but have no clue it’s carti.
rocky promoting testing was the same as wlr
Rocky don’t get his credit either smh he’s kind of mysterious too even in his prime he wasn’t active in social media nor music
@@tbj4855facts he barely even dropped since 5 years ago
ofc bob uses rick as an example 😂😂😂
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i dont think its really a problem i think from the 2016 to around 2019 rappers were always doing a lot of clout chasing online to quickly gain a following for example 6ix9ine and lil pump just to name a few. but what we saw from these rappers is that they can easily crash out and their career quickly dies. And what i think is happening is rappers are taking more time to actually live life and work on music rather than doing unnecessary clout chasing. And it seems to be working, look at some of the best artists we have today carti, tyler, kanye just to name a few they can take almost 2 years to put out a body of work and the fans are rarely disappointed. although i do think some rappers force the act but who really cares.
edit: look at the rapper who were doing a lot of '"clout chasing" a few years back and how their fans react and treat their music right now. the biggest examples being lil uzi vert and trippie redd
glad bob spoke about mf doom
Ngl it’s a good thing cause the artists are giving the power to the people to become the headlines and not the major media reporters
god these videos r so poorly researched
i think its actually social media, constant attention seeking, & overly fast paced everything that is plaguing not just the music industry but the world.
How you not gunna mention The Weeknd 🤯😒🤨
amazing content bob
Preciate you
You edit this video? It's fire 💯💯♨️
The fashion analogy is so terrible
the weeknd pioneered the shit in pop music. tbh nobody even exists in the wave besides him. be he got way to big so even tho there is still a mistique it’s hard to say he’s mysterious at this point. being that he’s consistently a top 3 biggest artist in the world in every category every year for more than 7 years straight. hip hop is the only genre that can have this amount of them while being almost or low end mainstream because of how niche driven hip can be and how big certain niches start to trend. hence carti, doom, asap rocky until he was with riri ofc. frank ocean is another outlier like the weeknd although he’s not really as pop as the weeknd grew to be but he was more pop than the weeknd when the weeknd was THE mysterious artist during trilogy to beauty behind the madness eras. frank is like r&b indie pop. dude is really one of one
either you complain artists flood or wash out genres by releasing too much and then get mad when artists sit and actually build they craft on they own time thats the whole pro of being independent you don't have a label giving you due dates you just release when you want ...
i feel like the thing is this mysterious thing WAS the norm before social media. Back then all you got was the music and you'd hope to get some good info on an artist in the paper, magazine, or radio. Take for example SADE. IMO the social media thing is getting played out with the more artists coming out. I can't care about 50 mfing lives. 10 mfers going live. All i can really put time into is MY LIFE str8 up and simply the music. Like wit carti iggy be tryna bring mans down but in reality who gaf. We hear for the music. Don't get me wrong i wish the best in general for his kids her kids they lives in general but shi all that life shit not my life so how and why would i care.
Honestly tired of the vampire l/devil era of music now
Even the sound cloud era wasn’t full of it like this
bro 😭
Frank in his own lane idk why he on here 😭🙏🏽
yeah I was super interested in what kinda music SoFaygo would eventually drop after that major Trippie Redd song he featured in, but everytime I would search his name up it would only be more features on other artist's music and I just wanted to explore Faygo's solo stuff, its astonishing he waited 2 years to drop, that is not acceptable
These are real people with actual lives. No one is acting mysterious. Also, social media isn't for everybody.
this "epidemic" is actually nothing new, i first realized when i started listening to Bones in 2013 that being mysterious, not really communicating with fans and revealing very little (if anything) about your life outside of maybe just the occasional lyrics is a very effective marketing strategy . the really dark photography about Bones when i first became a fan of him and the fact that almost nothing is known about this guy and how he almost never responds to fans had me wanting to fan even more and it didn't take me long back then to realize i wasn't the only one who felt this way. there is something very peculiar about wanting to follow the mysterious (for lack of better words). about 10 years later everyone does some variant of the "mysterious" thing and i can't blame anyone since it's proven to work
overall just really glad a video has been made about this phenomenon since almost everything you said in the intro alone has been on my mind for the last 10 years
Uzi used to be on Carti ass 🤣🤣(Pause ofcorse)
6:03 Ye been leakin way before that. I had late registration a good 2 months before it officially dropped
I like the mysterious persona. Its like Radiohead and other artist like that. But yeah gotta have tact to it
Drake is like the opposite of mysterious and he da biggest rapper
Which proves one of the points I made BUT there’s no 1 right way to do it
Drake is the ultimate butt boy
@@Bobbalam forsure all diff
Common Yeat W
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15:26 he knew what he was doing when he mentioned this lmao
Frank ocean Rapper? this gotta b racist😭
He has rapped but yeah mostly an artist. He’s just one of the best mysterious “artists”
@@Bobbalam everyone has rap but is not considered a rapper. You are just putting him in the thumbnail cause he's black.
If the title was different I'll be ok, but u said RAPPER EPIDEMIC 😭😭