Hip Hop Has No Structure Now That BET and MTV No Longer Play Music Videos

[DANJ!]

Gotta bring back The Box

You think somebody's payin' to watch a video in 2016??

Good luck, haha!

 

[rapbeats]

First off, thanks for such a well written and thought out post. I definitely respect your opinion and I agree with you on a few points. My comeback to your diversity statement is that the people loved diversity back then because they received it on the radio and video which is what made it cool. If there's an artist that's not receiving any mainstream airplay, most of us would consider that artist underground or better yet irrelevant. So while the hip hop heads of the 90's were more diverse, they were only more diverse because the radio was diverse.

Every song on the radio is the same now so you don't see the general public demanding diversity. People are sheep breh, if you feed them shyt they'll learn to like it and eventually will argue that its a delicacy hence the large Future fanbase on this board. When radio fed us Pharcyde and A Tribe Called Quest the public embraced it. I guarantee you that if radio fed us Dead Prez or some other conscious act just as much as they feed us Drake the people would gravitate towards it. They eat what they're fed.

can i knock your points? NOPE. cause people are sheeple.

But i will say this. in the earlier stages of hiphop. hiphop FANS. real FANS. not POP fans. were not sheeple. we dug in dem crates heavy. mainstream or not. we made acts mainstream. there were quite a few acts they tried to push on us as hot and we were like NOPE> Thats booboo... get that wack nonsense up outta here. and there it went. i'll give you example. someone famously known for the greatest hiphop magazine of its time. mr Source. He himself tried to push him and his crew on us. We were not having it. We thought him and his crew was at best semi wack. and we called it out as such. eventually no matter how much he pushed it in his mag which everyone hiphop head read weekly. his crew didnt do numbers like that.

There were others that the fans black listed. We eventually blacklisted vanilla ice after we let him in at first. thats the power we held back then.

you must understand. back in those days. Black MEN/BOYS dictated what was hot and what was not To the white people that would buy the stuff and to most of the black ladies that were around us.

now, you heard the story it was posted here twice. Where drunk and high southenr strippers stripping in the strip club are dictating whats hot. thats why the songs sound like they do right now.

The radio will push what you pay for. sure they will try to FORCE some on you. but after awhile if it doesnt catch. they will fall back. because at the end of the day $$$ is what they are looking to obtain.

say for instance what happened to drake, happened to him in 94. lets assume he was that big. lets assume drake was NAS. we would've banned nas from hiphop back then. the powers that be would've kept spinning his records. but the ladies and the white folks would've looked to us for direction . if we said Drake is a fraud. then drake is a fraud. sprite, and no other big corps could've told us otherwise back then. that was a different time. we drove what was hot. we being legit hiphop fans.

its completely flipped now. the POP fans that are ultra fickle drive the narrative and the playlists. they only care about stale same ole stuff. thats why they are pop fans and not true fans of any genre. if its popular and trending they like it. if not. they hate it. So to your point in THIS era of POP fans only. THe radio station technically drive it after the strippers cosign it of course. lol what a sad state we are in.