Jermaine Dupri Says No One Makes Music for Teens Anymore: ‘I Can’t Do Everything’

[spliz]

nikka k pop is like the 8th most popular genre in america

What I’m saying is if we did something that catered toward kids it would make waves HERE. Of course it ain’t the most popular overall because it ain’t our shyt.

 

[FlimFlam]

the music industry as we once knew it pretty much consolidated itself out of existence

middle men like dame and irv (rip) etc running around lookin looking silly and out of place because the wholesale destruction of commercial musics infrastructure left figures like them obsolete

the topic at hand is definitely a matter of concern, but it aint like black people got the agency to platform these acts... at best we can petition some white entity to fill these voids and hope they consider the plea

i know we've been socialized to not address real sources of control and power but the culprit here aint "nikkas"

 

[Pop123]

Keeping it funky, Jaden Smith is one of my favorite rappers (pause if necessary), he makes that kind of music…it’s definitely more that than the toxic poisonous shhit yall/we love. Everybody thinks he’s soft and/or sweet tho, …rightfully so, he be on bs















Is this not that?

 

[FTBS]

JD is right. Our parents had The Jackson 5 & The Sylvers when they were young, we had New Edition, Hi Five, Troop, etc.
Today's kids current musical choices are a steady stream of sex, drugs, murder, and ratchetness.
The kids today could definitely use some more age-appropriate music.

Teens used to listen to real R and B music and various types of hip hop. At some point labels got lazy/greedy and just threw the lowest form of both together and you have what we have now. Its either kiddie shyt or straight fukkin and poppin pills with no in between. Sad.

 

[Fanservice]

He’s right.

All the girls got is glorilla, cardi b, Meagan etc

It’s even worse for boys

They have Taylor Swift, Titty Eilish, Olivia Rodriguez and Sabrina Carpenter

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Oh okay, that’s facts. It wouldn’t sell, nobody wants to even attempt to tap into that. This shhit is Sodom and Gomorrah…if it ain’t overly-sexualized or overly-violent or just overly-ignorant it probably ain’t gonna pop

Except what you're saying is wrong. Sales, merch, and tickets for black artists are at an all-time low because black kids are not buying what is being sold to them en masse.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

nikka k pop is like the 8th most popular genre in america

As you wrote this dumb shyt the #1 song in the country and biggest hit of the summer is a kpop song.

 

[David_TheMan]

He is 100 percent right.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

There are still kid-friendly Black boy/girl groups out there, but they need a push if their going to compete with the low-vibrational stuff.
For example, Wanmor is a really dope group of talented young brehs:


...and if the music is good, today's kids will rock with it:

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Kpop is literally a case of forgotten recipes. They are literally just doing what we did with music for years, but we've gotten so far away from it they can now sell it back to us at a premium. Remember house music?

We are about a year away from a black group put together and trained by a kpop agency taking over urban music

 

[Pop123]

Except what you're saying is wrong. Sales, merch, and tickets for black artists are at an all-time low because black kids are not buying what is being sold to them en masse.

Is that a music/messaging/bad quality thing tho? And, if this shhit ain’t what’s in then what is??? Lol

 

[Sk3ptical]

As you wrote this dumb shyt the #1 song in the country and biggest hit of the summer is a kpop song.

I am talking about the genre nikka

 

[LevelUp]

 

[Professor K.]

Joe Budden got an 11-year old sister

Have Joe Budden for a son and think you should add more of your genes to the population 35 years later mrehs

 

[Supa]

R&B falling out of the mainstream is a major reason for this. Even if the singers were grown the music was still listenable for a younger audience because it wasn't raunchy or profane.

Unless R&B makes a comeback there's isn't going to be a solution to this problem.