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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At this moment, I’m watching Lenny Kravitz perform the pregame show at the Champions League at Wembley Stadium. He’s not my favorite, but he and his band are very good.
He is much better than the Hip Hop and Rap crap.
GO BORUSSIA DORTMUND!!
GO BORUSSIA DORTMUND!!
I’ve been a Dortmund fan since Klopp was there.
It's not that it's getting less popular, it's that more of the people who listen to cRap are being killed in gang-related shootings.
Hala Madrid
It is often just illiterate rhyming with a pounding beat. Just as the rest of black American culture has devolved, some of the best music produced in America has been replaced with angry bad poetry with percussion.
It sounds like it. At least the primitive rhyming part. There’s a newer/older iconic one also. It was Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire.” A bit more sophisticated in poetic license but still a rapid-fire staccato essay, IMO.
What took so long?
It’s about time!
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