50 years of Hip Hop- How Come?

@perki

Perhaps you have some ideas of your own you’d like to share.  
Or perhaps you’d like to merely copy and paste a few music writers who wanted to publish a vaguely plausible “story” to meet their deadlines.

A lot of stretching going on there.  
Rap is just as much “born out of jazz” as Katy Perry is “born out of classical.”

We can flex, balance (much love, Mr. Van Vliet) and stretch some more until the cows come home.  

The degree to which the vast majority of hip hop is based on extremely complex compositions (the majority of mainstream rap barely qualifies as being a ‘composition’ at all, as it is often a series of samples and loops of previously composed/recorded material) be it,
a) complexity of harmonic relationships,
b) complexity of rhythm/time signature, and,
c) compositional structure,
is infinitesimal compared to all of the above in jazz.   

The degree to which the music is defined by virtuosic improvisational instrumental acumen, whether in a recorded or live performance capacity, is equally infinitesimal compared to jazz.
 

Personally, I enjoy rap and hip-hop; I don't enjoy jazz. I don't care about instrumental virtuosity; I care about whether I enjoy listening to the final result. Some genres I just prefer to others. 

50 years?? Oh no it was a lot earlier!

You need to dig down to slavery times and that's when rap/hip-hop first appeared

@larsman I wasn’t making a value judgement either way.  I certainly don’t consider technical proficiency/musical complexity to be synonymous with quality.  I was just elucidating the stark differences between the music that comes out of someone’s speakers when they listen to jazz vs. when they listen to pop (let alone rap).

Old men yell at screen, details at 11.

I wonder if many here could name even 5 of the top songs from last year?

Some Hip-Hop is really awful, but within the envelope of of popular music, Hip-Hop/Rap arguably has presented some of the more interesting music of the last 10 years and Hip-Hop has a lot of crossover with R&B and EDM, so hard to pigeon hole.