Posted on 06/01/2024 6:19:38 AM PDT by Libloather
It was only in 2018 when hip-hop surpassed rock 'n' roll to become the most popular music genre in the U.S., but its glory was short-lived.
In 2023—the year when hip-hop celebrated its 50th birthday— the music genre that gave a voice to millions seemed to be losing its appeal.
While 2023 was marked with historic performances by hip-hop royalty at major events, the newer generation struggled to make a dent on the charts.
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Or as musicologist and historian Zachary Diaz told Newsweek, there has been a "musical gentrification" of hip-hop which has seen corporations and big music labels try to profit from its popularity. This has led to a "dilution" of the sound that hip-hop appears in all kinds of music, movies, and advertisements that it has crossed over into other genres, so there is not even a clear idea of what hip-hop is anymore.
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Treva Lindsey is a professor at The Ohio State University and she told Newsweek that she had hope for the "tremendous possibility" and dynamism in all hip-hop culture— which includes graffiti, break dancing, and deejaying, among others— but the genre might be a victim of its own success.
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"For some, this most recent rap battle and the deployment of very serious allegations of intimate partner violence and sexually predatory behavior as "ammunition" signal a deeply entrenched and intractable misogyny that has plagued rap music for decades," she said, referring to the recent beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and also the very serious allegations of sexual trafficking and abuse leveled at hip-hop mogul Diddy, aka Sean Combs. He has denied all allegations.
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From another musicologist...
The history of black music since the Civil War has been cycle after cycle after cycle of black musicians creating a new musical style, which eventually gets picked up by non-blacks, which makes the style useless to black performers who want something unique to them, which causes a switch to a new style.
First minstrel, then ragtime, then dixieland, then blues, then bebop, then rock-n-roll, then soul, then rap, then hiphop. What’s coming next? Hu noz.
Hang it low enough to touch your windshield, signaling your car is pulled in far enough to close the garage door.
**The gym I go to plays that rot gut.**
Don’t go to the gym. As an OTR truck driver I learned to do a variety calesthenics in the sleeper and some routines with weights, then go outside and jog a few minutes before doing sprints. If it was cold outside I simply dressed for it. No gym commute, and no gym membership.
I met one driver that had a fold down exercise bike in his sleeper, and another driver that was really ripped because of the weight set he kept in his sleeper.
But if you’re going to the gym partly because of the chicks in tights, well, that’s another reason I wouldn’t go to one. I’m quite satisfied with my lovely and fit 67 year old wife.
“It took longer than disco to die, but at least it’s dying.”
Casanova Frankenstein:
Ah, the old Hip Hop Room. Just as I left it.
Tony P:
You been locked up for twenty years, Casanova. A lot of things have changed since then.
Casanova Frankenstein:
It must have been hard for you, Tony, the way times and styles have changed... hearing the people say that Hip Hop is dead...
Tony P:
[Snapping] Hip Hop is not dead! Hip Hop is LIFE!
Casanova Frankenstein:
Yes, Tony! That is the passion I remember! Stick with me, Tony, and you will dance again... when I rule this town.
It took longer than disco to die, but at least it’s dying.
Then why was Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” so popular? I remember hearing it the first time on the radio and thinking, “Why are they playing an old Chic song?”
It already infected country music - aka Hick Pop.
Garth Brooks killed country music. “Bad rock with a fiddle”, as Tom Petty put it.
AI Generated music.....
Tee hee. (Language)
Don’t Test Me B____!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FizOyEt7QWk
Or have all the rappers been capped?
I was wondering why all of a sudden hip hoppers are doing country?-)
I was waiting for you to share the TP quote! Our brother from the ‘Ville had a way with words.
**I always change the station because of rap and Alanis Morisette.**
Here is a hilarious ‘version’ of ms morisette at 1:26. At the end, the ‘version’ of guns and roses ‘McDonalds’ is comical as well....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r5R8gSgedh4&pp=ygUVVGltIGhhd2tpbnMga2lkcyByb2Nr
I see that Newsweek back to reporting the important issues of the day!
The devolution from bebop to hip hop is huge — like falling off a cliff.
Even Miles lost his way, his 80s stuff was dreck.
I’d love to see a resurgence of real jazz, mainly because it would improve the quality of pop music.
Beato and a couple of the Steely Dan session guitar guys talk along those lines in his new video...saying that rock and pop went into decline when the bebop knowledge base was lost in the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h0kgHWb6mc
Saw that. I watch every Beato video pretty much as soon as it comes out.
It’ll make crappy Muzak
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