“In 2012, everybody wants to be Young Jeezy but this time everybody has a smartphone that can digitally record anything that comes into their head and lay it over a downloaded backing track.”
Not sure about Young Jeezy, but yeah, I think I agree. There surely were a lot of unskilled rock acts banging away in gargages, but I like a lot of it.
Here’s another thing, I think a lot of folks are resentful of hip hop because it sucked all the air out of potential black rock acts. Part of this might the ease in which acceptable rap can be made.
Freegards
Really?
There were precious few of those between 1970 and 1985.
I don't see how hip hop taking off in 1985 had any effect on a niche that pretty much died with Jimi Hendrix.
Were you a fan of Living Colour, for example?