You aren’t kidding. No rapper today even approaches the musical talent of this partial list:
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Duke Ellington
3. Miles Davis
4. James Brown
5. Ella Fitzgerald
6. Louis Armstrong
7. Stevie Wonder
8. Ike and Tina Turner
9. Sam Cooke
10. Otis Redding
11. Marvin Gaye
12. Quincy Jones
13. The Staple Singers
14. Earth, Wind and Fire
15. Ray Charles
I could go on and on. Of course, pretty much the same thing has happened with white musical artists too.
Add in Aretha Franklin. Man that woman had some pipes.
Great list.
It brings tears to the eyes to see how far we have fallen in such a short time.