Back in the days when black music was great . Today rap has taken over and it sucks ,,, awful !!!
I often think about that. I’m more of a 70’s R&B guy than 50’s although I could listen to the Mills Brothers all day.
Black musicians had such a huge legacy with Motown and The Philadelphia Sound.
The soul of Teddy Pendergrass singing lead for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STs1QlyawpY
Marilyn McKay with The Fifth Dimension.
Anything from the Spinners. The Four Tops
Amazingly, a white Canadian woman was probably most responsible for introducing great black music to huge white audiences. Rosalie Trombley was music director at CKLW Radio in Windsor Ontario. It was said that on a summer Friday night, your car didn’t need a radio, you could just listen to everyone else’s. The station had a monster signal that blanketed 38 states and six Provinces, registering number one ratings in many of those.
She was the first to have heavy rotation of black music to a largely white demographic. I suspect it wasn’t under some white privilege virtue signaling, but instead because it was incredible music.
Most music today, black, white, whatever is completely bereft of depth and complete forgettable.