Learning to Accept Rap’s Generation Gap. Written by J-Zone

[Shadow King]

 

[Cole Cash]

I don't know how old you, but radio before the telecom act(1997) was very different to what we get now. And yes there was balance, and yes just like today, you had your popular that got played on a daily. But this playing the same songs over and over was not happening, more music was getting by different artist.

Us older heads don't have a problem with popular being played, but we just have a problem with the fact that, that's all they play. There's much more to modern Black music, than just the same 5-10 artist.

this is why when i was about 17 and got high speed internet in 2000 i made he swich to bbc radio 1 and kiss fm in england, their stream reflected what our radio used to be about. every 2 to 3 hours the dj changes and the genres would change.


in 1997 ill never forget it, around july is when things changed, we went fromhaving a hip hop station that played house music at night to just a hiphop station that spammed dmx, ja and puff all day. we went from having jazz stations and classic rnb stations to just one rnb station playing mary j all day (no diss to mary but im being honest)

i was 14 at the time but i remember this very very well, radio had changed and only if you lived in it you understood how that telecom act fukked up radio in america for good

 

[hex]

If you were a teenager in the ’90s and didn’t know which song came after “Zig Zag” on the Car Wash Soundtrack from 1976, that’d be pretty Goddamn sad, too, right? Or does that sound a bit ridiculous?

T-Bone had no interest in learning about Kool and the Gang drummer, “Funky” George Brown, or asking me about this mysterious Young-**** Unlimited group. They were before his time. He just liked the samples. Those two to four second audio grabs were fat. When EQd right, they bumped in the jeeps that passed us in the street. That was it. He didn’t ask me for a tape dub of the first Kool and the Gang LP to bump on his own, but he was down to loop up their shyt. Aspiring producers and DJs like myself cared about that stuff. But our casual rap fan peers? Nah. If a sample was fat, it was fat. Who gave a fukk about the original source? The original source was before
their time, their parents’ music. And when you’re a teenager, your parents’ music is corny. We snatched pieces of it and made it ours. It was different now. “Don’t Sweat the Technique” was our locker room music, not “Give It Up.”

These two don't make much sense.

He's saying people who were interested in rap had no interest in the genres of music it sampled. Ok....and? It's apples and oranges. You can't play the "it's your parent's music" card here, it makes no sense. Rap is rap is rap. Obviously if you wanted to hear some rap, you ain't gonna go check for Kool and the Gang or the Car Wash soundtrack, anyway. Generation gap has nothing to do with it.

Fred.