Do black people even exist outside of Hip-Hop and R&B anymore??????

[Unknown Poster]

Also, I will admit, I dissed Vice/Noisey on twitter, and I thought that would burn some bridges, but it actually did the opposite, I gained more followers because of it.

So yes, it made me realize, playing the game nicely (being reserved, humble, quiet, etc) does not work for black people outside of hip-hop and r&b on social media...you have to be kind of loud and out there to even attract attention. Nowadays...more than ever.

People lowkey ain't liking the fact that I'm pointing out the racism in the independent music/art scene cause there is this popular perception that it isn't about race and it's all accepting and all of this liberal fluffery and a black man like myself pointing this out gets these bloggers panties in a bunch.

 

[315]

@1984 @Poitier @SupaHardTreeHugga @MikeyC @ridedolo @Selah

heres a some mixes ive put out if yall want to check.. a little bit of everything..

DJ HillBilly Ocean

 

[Unknown Poster]

Lol pretty soon we will get eliminated from hip hop and randb...we give everything away, and other groups just take it, and do their own thing with it

Like real talk breh....all of these other musics...have pretty much been whitewashed damn near completely. To the point us black folks look like outsiders in the houses we built.

I've played raves, clubs, rooftop parties, opened up for local, national, and international talent at this point. There is this palpable vibe amongst the party goers, bloggers, fashionistas, all of these non-black people at these parties and especially amongst these moneyed whites at some of these rooftop parties in BK, Manhattan that "this belongs to us" and they make you feel like you don't belong there.

Tehy try to lowball you and oneup you and assert their superiority on you
They act like you dont' know what's up.
They'll mention some obscure thing or whatever and try to act like they're better than you for knowing about it
They'll talk to you blatantly like in the back of their mind you dont' know anything about this music or this culture cause you're black

The difference is I always give em that BS back cause I've been involved in this game now for almost 20 years....meanwhile these kids got into techno like 5 years ago or when Justice debuted or whatever.

These majority white indie nerds truly are intimidated by black men like myself....it is telling. I see it when I go out to these functions. Like I got stories to tell breh....mad stories.

 

[unit321]

Yeah, I'm not into gospel music at all.....

That's okay.
It's not for everyone. There's different genres of gospel music. I'm into jazz, contemporary R&B gospel driven by funky bass lines and fusion-style drumming, and not so much old-fashioned gospel with choirs.

 

[Unknown Poster]

There are way too many manifestations of house now to say that. Rap imo has gone back to the 80's in some ways. 808 style drums and simple lyrics. Regardless, why would you want to let people have shyt that we created? Some of these euro house Djs EATING off that shyt

Dude they are eating off that shyt. I'm talking about Djs like Kaskade, Calvin Harris, Avicii, etc....making $400,000 a gig. yep. $400,000 just for a two hour set.



Meanwhile, there are black Djs in Chicago, Baltimore Detroit that can barely get booked outside of America even those cities anymore that have been Djing and producing 12"s since the 90s. But maybe some white record company in Germany will throw them a bone and license a 12" to be played out by those white djs that make tens of thousands at festivals and club gigs and clean up.

I've observed this way too much at this point. There really are white, black, etc. peopel that think techno/house is not black music and it was invented by whites.

This new school EDM mega festival culture is bullshyt seriously perpetuating this lie.
Go on mad EDM sites, you will be shocked to see black faces on there every now and then cause mostly the faces are white....

These newschool EDM hipsters are racist as fukk breh....they want to take black people out of the picture completely.

This is one of the reasons why this discussion never seems to leave certain circles cause the house/techno/edm community wants to believe there's no racism in this shyt when they blindly perpetuate it.

 

[Unknown Poster]

That's okay.
It's not for everyone. There's different genres of gospel music. I'm into jazz, contemporary R&B gospel driven by funky bass lines and fusion-style drumming, and not so much old-fashioned gospel with choirs.

I like gospel house like Kenny Bobien, Susu Bobien, older Blaze tracks from the 90s but that's pretty much where it ends.

 

[Unknown Poster]

@1984 why don't you create your version of Ghetto Gothik?

This is my next goal....I was thinking about it, just making a DJ night. I know club owners and stuff and passed them my music, as well I talk to Venus X every now and then on twitter.

 

[Barnett114]

Lol pretty soon we will get eliminated from hip hop and randb...we give everything away, and other groups just take it, and do their own thing with it

Considering that most of the new artist are 99% black, nope


The only genre that completely left black hands was Rock

 

[UnoVon]

It's gonna keep on happening until there ain't shyt left, we made all the world's music genres from hillbilly banjo music and salsa to dance music and rock but in 2016 we're only associated with rap, r&b and reggae... and the only type of rap music they like to attribute us to is gangsta rap because apparently outside of that "Eminem is the bestest ever", I guess this is what happens when you always allow the enemy with bigger pockets and a bigger outreach in a land where youre the minority inside of your house, they wait till you fall asleep then have a uhaul army pull up to your front door, by the time you wake up the only thing that's left is you. nikkas the world over never learn.

 

[Kwéyòl]

 

[TEH]

I was thinking to try to get at Azealia Banks on twitter, but honestly after her whole outburst against Sarah Palin yesterday, I don't think I could associate myself with her brand.

Any publicity is good publicity.

 

[315]

This is my next goal....I was thinking about it, just making a DJ night. I know club owners and stuff and passed them my music, as well I talk to Venus X every now and then on twitter.

Where ever you're at I'd make it a point to get down and support if you get something going. Me and my cousin have been brainstorming a few ideas

 

[Unknown Poster]

I didn't want to believe in the racial politics of the dance/electronic music world. I didn't want to admit they existed. I knew they had, but not like this/

It seems black artists, djs, producers making dope electronic music are more respected overseas in the UK/EU and in Canada then in the US.

People see my name attached to records and cause it sounds a bit Japanese they assume I'm japanese (but it's Nigerian).

They find out I'm black and they are all shocked as fukk. had it happen twice. Cause they don't know (like most of the music consuming audience nowadays) what I look like.

This is why I support the Kaytranada's, Actresses, FlyLo's and Funkineven's of the world.

 

[BruhManFromTheFifthFlo]

No nikka I know listens to NONE of that shyt

 

[Buckeye Fever]

It's rhetorical but yes. A lot actually. If you listening to the radio and not up on streaming sites then you're lost. Dance Hall, House Music, Dub & beat music have tons of black composers and singers

"Bu...bu....but im not paying $10 a month for music!"

I got Spotify and it is well worth it. Just discovering music you'd never hear on commercial-driven outlets is fun in itself