50 years of Hip Hop- How Come?

Reggae music has been around longer. But mainstream US has a massive blind spot to what was coming from Jamaica.

Personally i really like Trip Hop, the UK version that combines dub basslines with hip hop vocals and trippy effects, a la Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Bonobo, Gorillaz. It's softer and more musical than most US hip hop, which is born out of the vicious culture wars you have, and reflects issues like a racist criminal justice system, mass incarceration and environmental crimes like redlining.

I understand the anger.

+1 @ghasley 

some straight up George Wallace attitudes in this thread! hip hop is just as much "music" as any other genre. I'd bet dollars to donuts that anyone who believes otherwise is also "outraged" by a football player taking a knee while the american national anthem is played, and has nodded his head in agreement to the statement "all lives matter". thankfully, as time marches on, the stodgy, vaguely racist attitudes are becoming less prevalent as each new generation replaces the last. the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. 

I don’t think of 98% of the genre as music. 
 

it’s also promotes violence and misogyny. 
 

I can think of only 2 or 3 artists from the genre that I like. 
 

To those who think I’m being just like my parents: sometimes something that is not a cigar really is not a cigar. 

It’s interesting to me when the phenomenon of messaging and/or music reasonates with a broad spectrum of society, race become invisible and we have found yet another common link and connection. When all the stars line up and both of these occur simultaneously (messaging AND music) we have an enduring contribution to a culture we can celebrate -- together.

The genre has changed leaps and bounds over the years. you are obviously not listening.  Or maybe you just dont like it.