Posted on 08/18/2015 9:56:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It all started with “Rappers Delight”.
Interesting. A great life story is Berry Gordy, Jr., who built Motown. He insisted all his acts have speech and elocution lessons so they didn’t speak “ghetto-ese” when they were interviewed. He put them in tuxedos or evening gowns (for the Supremes). He tailored his company to appeal to 100% of the American market, not the 12% of the black market, and became the richest black man in the nation for a while.
The black groups of the 1950s and 1960s were fabulous. Ballads, serenades, harmonies - they had it all.
Sweet moves too...
It was much more innocent and demure, but the message was still there.
Hip Hop started out as party music. Gangsta Rap was a subset that came later.
We need another Berry Gordy.......................
At least soul music was happy music and life affirming, not about playing da bxtchxs and smoking cops.
Mind in the wayback machine there.
I sure miss new rhythm & blues. I think the last new artist I remember was Terrence Trent D’Arby.
Trash music is part of the ongoing war against the West.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_VzbtRGr0
I like a lot of black musicians from the twenties, thirties and forties.
Ella Fitzerald, Nat King Cole, Marian Anderson, just three of the best from the mid 20th century.
... Diana Ross and the Supremes, singing love themed songs.
Since then .... where’s the love?
The black family has been totally destroyed and it’s reflective in their music. Family failure exponentially increased since 1960 due largely to failed democrat policies babying the black. Unintended consequences. It used to be we had black ladies and gentlemen, many educated and married. The black had family, self respect reason and purpose.
Since then, they have laid down. They stopped trying. Now, we have an unsurpassed crop of irresponsible, illiterate racist n!ggrs wanting to fk up whitey for colonialism, slavery and welfare checks that are too small.
The bassturds need to wake up , pull up their pants.... and socks too and take some responsibility...
AND
Put LOVE back into the equation.
Where is the Church when they need it? Clearly Sharpton AIN’T doing his job!
“love child”
The Jazz era wasn’t really all that conservative. But it was tasty.
Careless Love Blues (Louis Armstrong & Bessie Smith, 1925)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGJv4cmmj3M
It ended with George Clinton. Black music took a nose dive in the mid 80’s.
In the meantime, there was plenty of raunchy (and sometimes violent) language & themes throughout blues, jazz & R&B. And country & folk music, as well.
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