Rap amd R&B is dead

[dugington]

And finally, we can look to the continual budget cuts to public schools. Kids now have no music classes etc. This is part of the southern strategy to to keep the majority of the population stupid (and it works as evidenced by TWO trump victories) but the collateral effect was to kill a whole bunch of school programs.

This.

And don't forget the lack of church attendance. It was the very source of musicianship that shaped every decade of R&B.

 

[playahaitian]

Agree with the bolded.

Anybody can just waltz on in the industry without some kind of vetting/development.

^^^^^

 

[playahaitian]

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[cocobeauty]

My kids got me liking Chappel Roan

When my mom passed i went back to all those 60s records I thought were too white. Now im back on jazz. Now I'm studying blues and Irish folk cause of Sinners.

Ain't nothing dead.

I’ve gone back to listening to music really heavy while I read, which is pretty much all the time now and lately I hear in rotation Al Green, Aretha Franklin and it’s such a nostalgic feeling because it reminds me of growing up and Saturday mornings.

 

[playahaitian]

I’ve gone back to listening to music really heavy while I read, which is pretty much all the time now and lately I hear in rotation Al Green, Aretha Franklin and it’s such a nostalgic feeling because it reminds me of growing up and Saturday mornings.

100% COSIGN

 

[knightmelodic]

This.

And don't forget the lack of church attendance. It was the very source of musicianship that shaped every decade of R&B.

That is an excellent point about the Black Church. While not exactly the source, it was certainly the crucible. And the cutting floor.

I read a book where someone, a Motown exec, said Motown's success could be directly traced to Detroit's school system. The author had interviews where many of the artists remembered the same teacher(s) who identified and nurtured their talent.

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

^^^^^ that part



The music is there you just gotta find it.

And aint nothing wrong with playing all the thousands of songs from your youth over and over.

THATS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.

Our parents said the same exact sh*t when hip hop and later 80s r&b got hot.

The problem is that people expect these record labels to force feed them good rappers and singers when that ship has sailed a long time ago.

 

[playahaitian]

The problem is that people expect these record labels to force feed them good rappers and singers when that ship has sailed a long time ago.

You know what is crazy though?

I came up during Napster and Limewire and you know what that all did?

Made me love music MORE.

DIFFERENT TYUPES AND GENRES from all decades and all genres and all countries.

My Napster library used to be ILL.

I could never say there isn't ENOUGH new music.

I aint HEARD it ALL never of have.

And at this rate?

You could live to be 100 and only hear like 2% of all the music available to you.