It's fair to say Americans have given up on American music. CACs chose K-Pop, spicy CACs chose Bad Bussy

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Bump Klan music brehs

Not all of it is klan music contrary to popular belief as there’s a clash of ideals between the country music women and men for the most part.

A lot of the women hate Jason Aldean for an example and constantly cracks jokes about him and his wife as well.

 

[Concerned Citizen]

This post is actually part of what’s wrong with how music is viewed. If you are just a surface level listen to what’s on the radio type then a few genres have been trash since the early 2000s. It’s the Information Age. Spend a fraction of the time that you devote to finding *that one type* of porn scene that you like and you’ll find that a lot of artists are still out there making quality music in that genre.

 

[Dynamite James]

Songs in the OP are trash too

 

[Fill Collins]

Bump Klan music brehs

New c*ntry music is just redneck edm trap

The older stuff is just

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

Not all of it is klan music contrary to popular belief as there’s a clash of ideals between the country music women and men for the most part.

A lot of the women hate Jason Aldean for an example and constantly cracks jokes about him and his wife as well.

i don't listen to a lot of country music but this is one of my favorite songs

 

[kevm3]

More and more people don't see America as some mega beacon leading the artistic way anymore. Low key we got boring.

Streaming and the fact anyone can create and upload their music now has made the world less dependent on any one country for their music.

Smartphones and internet access around the world now is a more accurate measurement of what humans are into than we've ever had.

I feel the issue is that black music is no longer black controlled, so the actual artists floating to the top aren't the real musicians. They are the whore/thug caricatures who don't necessarily have much musical talent but they follow instructions from the higher ups well. Why does just about every 'big' female have to be overly sexualized? There's a ton of talent out there, but it never gets picked up because it's not the c00ned out characters that record labels think will sell.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Why hasn't gogo ever blew up outside of DC. It sounds good and the locals fully support it

It's never too late, but it would need to make a resurgence in the city first.

 

[#BOTHSIDES]

To be honest afrobeats or whatever you want to call it been carrying the torch. Black American music has been mid for a while.

Yeah…rnb don’t really be hittin either… the rnb that be hittin is from outside usa.

 

[#BOTHSIDES]

I remember in an interview back in the 2000s with Elton John. He said black American music is dead. He called it all the way back then and he wasn’t wrong. The fact Drake has been the number one “black artist” for over a decade confirms this.

Huh? There was a lot of good music in the 2000s Jill Scott, h.e.r., Anderson .paak, musiq soul child, Carl Thomas, Dave hollister, r kelly, Ashanti, Tamia, destiny’s child, Beyoncé, Fabolous, já rule had some hits, Maxwell, erykah badu, the list goes on.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Sometimes if you get too relaxed or allow infiltrators, and not really grasp what you have, you may lose it and never fully recover.

Black American music was the global staple for decades.
The whole world, even the foreign Black world practically relied on Black Americans for their music and without prejudice.

The biggest mistake whomever runs Black music in America could ever make was to allow such a severe drop in quality over a sustained period of time to the point the idea that Black Americans are the supreme masters of music could come into serious question and doubt.

Once the Black world saw Americans could no longer be relied upon to supply music, they didn't just look elsewhere they looked at themselves.
Black people are artistic and musical, and don't have to be born and raised in America to be so. It comes naturally to us.
So two new Black artforms namely afro beats and amapiano quickly took off.
Doesn't matter whether you're a hiphop purist and you like them or not, bottom line is that someone else does in large numbers and it's Black genres as usual..just not from America this time.

If Black American music doesn't get serious now and somehow put an end to the trash being mass produced the past 25 years their industry may forget its real identity and get lost forever never to recover..no one likes to see a great thing come to such a sad demise..

both are FBA influenced though

And there long term sustainability remains to be seen

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

Huh? There was a lot of good music in the 2000s Jill Scott, h.e.r., Anderson .paak, musiq soul child, Carl Thomas, Dave hollister, r kelly, Ashanti, Tamia, destiny’s child, Beyoncé, Fabolous, já rule had some hits, Maxwell, erykah badu, the list goes on.

anderson paak is 2010s, breh

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Huh? There was a lot of good music in the 2000s Jill Scott, h.e.r., Anderson .paak, musiq soul child, Carl Thomas, Dave hollister, r kelly, Ashanti, Tamia, destiny’s child, Beyoncé, Fabolous, já rule had some hits, Maxwell, erykah badu, the list goes on.

This interview was in the late 2000s or so. I wish I could find it but I remember that quote specifically. This was the time auto-tune was ruling the airwaves.

One thing I give British CACs credit for is that they have a lot of reverence for black music. Even though they steal they’re influenced by it, they uphold it with the utmost respect.

Elton John and others grew up with Motown, Stax Records and others. Artists who grew up in the church and took their craft seriously. Every artist was distinguishable from each other.

Towards the end of 2000s, you could see the clear decline of black music/culture as a whole. How did we go from jazz, blues, soul, rock and R&B to this crap we have today?

 

[JNew]

Rap has needed a reset for awhile. As someone who stopped listening to mainstream rap after Kendrick Lamar and is looking in from the outside now, women run the rap game.

 

[pawdalaw]

New York hip hop sounds like UK drill. And shyt is wack too.

 

[Spade]

Black folks have to get back on instruments and the creativity will come back.

These current artists don't know how to make real music.

Also, it takes time to make good music so most of this "fast money" generation will not be able to endure to create it.

You have to learn how to create music and learn what is actually attractive to people from what you created. That takes years and decades.

That's why they took creativity classes out of schools. That's where good artists develop.

Been preaching this (not on here) for years. It's when Black folks made the best music and influenced many scenes throughout the world.