50 years of Hip Hop- How Come?

@jasonbourne52 LOL, clearly you might not be the intended audience.

To the OP...some of the earliest hip-hop crossed over to different audiences more easily back in the day, especially given that many tracks were almost novelties (Rapper's Delight) with a strong but easy beat to follow. Saw my share of young caucasians "fake dancing" in clubs at the time and shaking my head then..not to the music but to those who were trying (but failing) to dance.

LL Cool J, Ice T, Biggie & Tupac and Run DMC through groups like Outkast, Public Enemy to todays artists like Jay Z, Drake, Anderson .Paak and Kendrick Lamar...its real music to the artists and its real music to the audience...isn't that kindof the test? It may not make sense to some...that's cool.

Some of Robert Glasper's recent stuff integrates all genre's...except death metal and polka.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to adjust the eyeholes on their hood and see this thread…..

This is an entertaining thread. It begs the question, “why are so many fearful of change and lacking an open mind?”. Most opining couldn’t tell us the differences, or lack thereof, between rap and hip-hop, if any.

You want to hear an almost perfect belnding of all of these genres (soul, r&b, jazz, blues, funk, rap, hip-hop) then listen to Robert Glasper’s “Black Radio” albums. His latest “Black Radio III” is brilliant. The musicianship is exceptional. To those who haven’t ever heard someone rap melodically, it exists on this album. To those who swear those creating hip-hop or rap aren’t musicians, this album dispels the stupidity of that myth.

Old, bitter, close-minded critics hate Queen Latifah but love Dana Owens. Strange.

I bet more than few burned their AARP cards during the Super Bowl halftime show…

@simonmoon

 

@ghasley

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to adjust the eyeholes on their hood and see this thread…..

 

I wonder how many people on this thread who don’t like rap or hip hop, love jazz?

Do believe those of us who dislike hip hop, but love jazz, put our ’hoods on’ to disparage hip hop, then take them off when we listen to jazz?

Please...

Simon, you have to admit that there were a few poorly disguised bigoted posts prior to my above post. My post obviously wasn’t directed at you...please

@unreceivedogma thanks for posting. There is a good history of hip hop in a documentary on PBS. IIRC Chuck D produced it?

Like you eloquently stated, there is a great deal of the genre that I don’t personally enjoy. Others on this thread are mistakenly confused…that if they don’t enjoy this genre it isn’t music when in fact its just music they dont enjoy.

I dont enjoy Ornette Coleman or Kenny G or Wagner or Guns n Roses or Twisted Sister or almost any C&W (but Bluegrass was different to me for some reason). I recall my parents threw up in their mouth the time they found a Lords of the New Church album in my room. The irony was that my father was borrowing some of my albums and the Lords album was sandwiched between the London Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (I know, I should have had my albums filed by genre, conductor or piece of music). The moral is its music to whom its music. To bitch about it or debate it is silly. I think what really pisses people off is they think of all the starving artists who had deep talent and messages and yet, someone they view as lacking in both are buying multiple jets, vacation homes and other swag. Thats life and thats free enterprise.