When rap came out 30 years ago I thought it was just a fad


Now it seems like it dominates the music industry, movies and fashion. My only question is why?

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Dweller: luckily there is no correlation between patent innovation and musical creativity. Hate to sound like an old timer, but I know my stuff.
Yes I have a strange way with the English language.  I type on a small iPad.  Sometimes too quickly. Lol.  However, enjoy your music. You like what you like. I don't care if I put people off or if I make a good case for my cause on this particular thread.  It is what it is. One would not expect to ever get a positive reaction or common ground on certain things in certain situations.  This one of them.  I don't think you make a case for your points either but at the end of the day it's not really important to either of us. It would be foolish to think that what I say to you and you to me matters much at all when it comes to this.  In your mind you think you have made brilliant observations about this subject. I beg to differ but in the end we probably will never meet or have a listening session and based on your responses that probably is a good thing for us both.  Now back to my jazz and my hip hop fad. Lol
calvinj, you spend a lot of time telling other people what's going on in their minds.  Please share  the source of your clairvoyant powers as we'd all like a little bit of that amazing ability. 


01-25-2016 6:32pm
Too many old, bored, banal, well-fed, monied white guys with nothing better to do than starting threads about rap/hip hop, etc. Racial over/undertones?  Absolutely.  

Shame on me for even commenting- but you'll kindly forgive me,  because, in my naivete, I believe that Audiogon deserves better.