The Rap Report 2026 is here 📊🎤
We asked around 1,500 of you about AI, genres, fans and what keeps you making music. Spoiler: the underground is doing its own thing.
Around 1,500 Rap Fame creators answered our survey this spring. Combined with the data we collect every day on creator behavior in the app, those answers revealed some crazy things about our underground music community.
Curious about the reality of our creator community? Check out The Rap Report 2026 👀👀
Here are a few teasers:
- Genre is dead, except for one genre that’s blowing up 🤯
- 3 out of 4 of you feel the same way about AI, the complete opposite of what the music industry thinks 😱
- We’re blowing TikTok’s engagement rate out of the water. Comment section GO BRRR 🗣🔥
- More of you than you’d think are making tracks for reasons beyond streams and celebrity 🤘
Click through and read the whole Rap Report 2026. We’ve included quotes from the survey, so you’ll read Rap Fame creators’ stories word for word alongside our data. We’d rather show you the report than give all of it away here 🫶
What’s YOUR feedback on The Rap Report? Drop a track inspired by it and let us know what you think 🎤
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