50 years of Hip Hop- How Come?

No - this is not old age ... I will say terrible news - if a person is not mentally ill - with age he only becomes smarter ... The soul does not die at all ...

Of course, making a hit is a stroke of luck and often quite a challenge for any genre...

But we are considering a phenomenon - the general primitivization of the human population ... the death of morality ... of conscience ... of what distinguishes a person from an animal ...

This does not happen by itself - this is the work of "shepherds" (owners of big money - corporations, funds, banks, oligarchs) - stupid people are easier to manage and rob them ...
if you do not have a good education, serious books, a guaranteed future, affordable and good medicine, you will quickly degrade (as a society) ...
if you are Mowgli - you were raised by wolves .., - you are unlikely to admire classical music ... you will need primitive but strong emotions - boom boom boom ... rhythm.

Like it or not, but Satanism (the religion of the consumer society) is the religion of the United States ... someone will say, but what about Catholics and Protestants ??? - I assure you - this is a caricature ... a caricature of Christianity and has nothing to do with it ... (I'm talking about society as a whole - individual people do not count).

Pay attention - the problems of the broad masses of ordinary people in America (by and large all over the world) began with the collapse of the USSR (the reasons are not important - it was not the economy - mostly betrayal - the population was deceived) ... THE COUNTRY EXAMPLE disappeared (free housing for everyone , the best free education in the world, good free medicine, the complete absence of unemployment, the opportunity to be creative for everyone, the absence of drug addiction, confidence in the future, a growing economy) - now big capital has a free hand - out of greed they are again "tightening the screws" (they were forced to make concessions to ordinary people - so that they would not remove them from power and begin to build socialism) ...

In the era of dinosaurs, ancient people must have listened to hip-hop ... did not live long ... were sick ... painted animals on the rocks with coal and excrement ... Society may soon return to this activity ... the only hope is China and Vietnam) ))

Did you like my fairy tale about a magical land where every child had a happy childhood? - Of course, I made it all up - do not believe it. 

ghasley - I hope you weren’t referring to my post when referencing “a hood.”  I further hope it didn’t inflame your sensitivities or trigger you in any way.  I don’t like the genre for the most part, no matter what race happens to be making it, race has zero to do with it.  My employment years back required me to work at a large indoor concert venue, had to work at many rap shows.  Nearly half the audience of over 20k people were white.  It’s the purported music I can’t stand, and behind that music is the glamorization of drugs and violence, and the total disrespect for women as “bitches and whores.”  I couldn’t even count the times the “n-word” was used in their music.  Just despicable.

@anotherbob

Your original post was a simplistic attempt to stereotype and to childishly "trigger."

How much drug money fueled rock and roll? How much drug money fuels the nightly news? How much alcohol money fuels college football?

If not an intentional dig whistle it served the purpose.

And I do agree with you on the misogyny and the glorification of violence as a reason to discount some of rap and hip-hop. 

Not my thing but I do enjoy some of the early stuff, NWA, Two Live Crew was funny, Schooly D. 
I respect the talent in the genre and there are some very talented musicians in some of these acts.

Used to deride the genre as not being music just to mess with my kids when they were in High School. 
 

A lot of Rock was protest music. That people protesting at that time are now fat and happy. A lot of Hip-Hop is protest music. The people protesting have not reached the fat and happy stage yet.  Is that true? No idea, but it sounds good!

Some people wonder why Country music still exists.

Music tends to morph, change, and intermingle. Look at Usher, brander R&B/Hip-Hop, but to me (I like the music), he sounds like a mashup of 80's synth-pop, 70's light rock, and 90's boy band, with the odd 90's rap to extend the audience. 

@jerryg123 , I don't have to deride my kid's generational music. They do that themselves.