[NEW]

My cousin and I were arguing about this topic. I said hip hop artist's singles needs a singing hook and a hip pop beat.. The song needs to appeal to both white and black people that's why "Who Dat" didn't chart high. It was too hip hop for the radio. He disagrees. He said Not Afraid and No Hands charted high but I told him they hand singing hooks. He doesn't believe they have singing hooks. Someone please clarify this... 

What makes a hip hop artist song chart high?

 

[Kanyigga]

less rhymes more hooks

 

[Drizzy]

a big name, and a great hook.

 

[S.Z.]

catchy/simplistic lyrics

and of course the most important part is a catchy hook

 

[gibbs]

A female on the hook helps, as does being white.

 

[NEW]

catchy/simplistic lyrics

and of course the most important part is a catchy hook

A female on the hook helps,

The B.o.B approach

 

[Guest]

A hot beat, poppy hook, a good delivery/flow and a big name artist attached to the name of single.

 

[user]

has to be catchy and something people can dance to 10 years later

or you can be Eminem

 

[Guest]

catchy/simplistic lyrics

The lyrics don't have to be simplistic - look at Superstar, for example, or All Falls Down, Touch The Sky, etc.

 

[Guest]

has to be catchy and something people can dance to 10 years later

or you can be Eminem

roblem?:

It's so true..

 

[D Easy]

it baffles me what most people consider to be good music

 

[1st Born Sun]

Basically all of these.

 

[Soso]

song you can sing to

 

[T. Houze]

Something with universal appeal, that many races would like, and something Tweens can sing all day long.

 

[Aussie]

Something about a chick being the best thing in the world.

And yeah anything Eminem will chart high, always has, always will.

 

[OSS]

Catchy hook + catchy beat + lyrics that aren't about black power or things that scare us white folks = hit song.

 

[Rollie]

you have to be a tool and write songs about nothing important or relevant to everyday life.


like a g6 like a g6 like g6

 

[drop.out]

Something about a chick being the best thing in the world.

And yeah anything Eminem will chart high, always has, always will.

 

[king.]

i was thinking about this yesterday and find it crazy some people chart well (b.o.b n flo rida) but cant sell at all :\

 

[user]

you have to be a tool and write songs about nothing important or relevant to everyday life.


like a g6 like a g6 like g6

you dont go to parties dawg?