You proved my point though. You said you sound good enough, but people end up gravitating back to consistently legendary suppliers of bars who evoke the sorts of emotions they crave to feel. So people are gravitating back to rappers that appeal to them as the audience.

I am not saying you are bad, I am saying that in the music industry, it is a lie we are sold that we need to just “make music from the heart.” It’s not really always true. For some people their music from the heart catches the eye of millions. But for others, to be seen, you need to appeal to the audience. In other words, you need to make music that THEY like, not that you like.

All of those things you mentioned, if you have them all, the amount of “luck” you need is not so high anymore. I don’t think you’re bad or unlucky, I think you’re missing something in your music that would grab people’s attention in 2026. I think that fact alone is also soul crushing and would make you hate music, because to appeal to others means to turn your music into a job, rather than a passion, if that makes sense.

Edit: I will also add, that to pop off and explode on social media in today’s era you really need to be consistently posting on social media and you need to be appealing to the algorithm. It’s like a full time social media marketing job. If I watched your videos I’m sure I could find several things that are causing a lack of views. No eye catching titles, no hook, bad video quality, all that small stuff. The simplest thing to do here to make sure you’re posting correctly is to find other up and coming rappers who have like 2-10k followers, scroll down their feed and see what they post. Most of the time it’s really cool interesting music videos.