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Hip-Hop Has Officially Dethroned Rock 'n' Roll as America's Most Popular Music
Maxim ^ | July 19, 2017 | Steve Huff

Posted on 07/29/2017 4:21:02 AM PDT by Trump20162020

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To: MarvinStinson

You can add classical operatic composers to your list.


121 posted on 07/29/2017 1:45:20 PM PDT by Exit148 ((Loose Chnge Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: Trump20162020

122 posted on 07/29/2017 1:47:50 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bonemaker

That’s why white music execs loved rap. It was cheap to produce and the artists were disposable. Just bring in the next ‘flavor of the month’. Huge profits. That’s why rap and hip hop was dumped on by the record companies.


123 posted on 07/29/2017 1:50:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: achilles2000
No. Hip Hop and Rap are just noise created by people of extremely limited ability for a demographic with an average IQ of 85.

How does that differ from heavy metal, or death metal, or oldies rock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4

124 posted on 07/29/2017 1:50:55 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Exit148

>>But their names AND music or written talents will be forever. Not so the “composers” you hear now.<<

True. So True.

The same is true for legendary rock stars (which sadly are falling like well, rocks).

cRap “artists” are disposable, just like their works (beat poetry, NOT music).


125 posted on 07/29/2017 2:00:08 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: dfwgator

As is jazz and blues!


126 posted on 07/29/2017 2:40:22 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: freedumb2003
cRap “artists” are disposable, just like their works (beat poetry, NOT music).

I did kind of like this, though.... Woman...Whoooah Man.

127 posted on 07/29/2017 2:45:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: freedumb2003
cRap “artists” are disposable, just like their works (beat poetry, NOT music).

I did kind of like this, though.... Woman...Whoooah Man.

128 posted on 07/29/2017 2:48:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

“Same goes for Techno.”

Absolutely. Primal beats for chicks who want to be thought of as “in the scene”.


129 posted on 07/29/2017 3:02:11 PM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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To: CodeToad

I just can’t get over these people worshipping these DJs onstage thinking they’re like bleedin’ Jimmy Page. “Ohhhhhh I going to press this button......I’m so talented!”


130 posted on 07/29/2017 3:06:18 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Well, I guess when you’re a brainless stripper type the $27,000 average salary earned by a DJ seems like big bucks.


131 posted on 07/29/2017 3:11:23 PM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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To: fso301

How do they differ differ? Not all that much, although at least a low level of musicianship is generally required for the genres you mention. But, you can’t go farther into the shallow end of the gene pool than Hip Hop and Rap.


132 posted on 07/29/2017 3:45:49 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: fso301

How do they differ differ? Not all that much, although at least a low level of musicianship is generally required for the genres you mention. But, you can’t go farther into the shallow end of the gene pool than Hip Hop and Rap.


133 posted on 07/29/2017 3:45:51 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Trump20162020

I thought this happened a few decades ago


134 posted on 07/29/2017 10:04:45 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: achilles2000
To be fair, they don't call themselves musicians, they call themselves artists.

And of course, there aren't many differing opinions about artists, are there... 8~)

135 posted on 07/30/2017 5:58:27 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: dfwgator
Eddy Grant (of Electric Avenue fame):

Hello Africa

But now we're getting beyond the hip hop realm.

136 posted on 07/30/2017 6:11:18 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: achilles2000

I didn’t do 22 years as a professional musician by just listening to hip hop.
I know Paul Desmond ‘The Whisperer’, and Oscar Peterson ‘Fastest octaves in the world’. So try again.


137 posted on 07/30/2017 7:00:34 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: freedumb2003

Dead to whom?


138 posted on 07/30/2017 10:56:35 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: real saxophonist

Of course you didn’t do 22 years as a professional musician by listening to just Hip Hop. No one said otherwise. I don’t need to try anything again.


139 posted on 07/30/2017 12:29:32 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: real saxophonist

I would agree that they are “artists”, but of the “con” variety. There are differing opinions in all kinds of fields. Some differences are defensible, and others aren’t. If someone wanted to claim that Mozart was a better composer than Bach, it could be reasonably argued, although I would take the Bach side. If, on the other hand, someone were to argue that Bach didn’t understand how to use counterpoint effectively in his composing, the opinion is indefensible. “Rappers” aren’t “artists” or musicians. It’s astonishing what slick marketing into a rotting culture can get people to swallow. If a rapper stood in front of you practicing his “art” it wouldn’t be all that different from the noises emanating from the primate house at the zoo.


140 posted on 07/30/2017 12:43:01 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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