Poll: Is it time for Black Americans to start a new genre of music?

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

I'm talking about a whole new, distinct genre of music. Not another offshoot like trap, hyphy, boom bap, etc.

I love hip hop to my core, but I'm at a point where I want some innovation to come about for us. The problem is, hip hop has borrowed and sampled from so many different genres that it's hard to imagine exactly what it would be or how it would sound. Plus this digital age has discouraged so many from taking up traditional instruments and musicology. It's been over 30 years tho, we gotta come up with something. If somebody knows of something out there let me know and I'll definitely give it a listen.

There's a few thoughts in my head (I'm not an artist tho) but I'd love to see a return to traditional instruments, bands, singing (or no vocals at all) etc. That's probably about the only way to make something defining IMO cuz it's so against the status quo. How do ya'll feel though?

None of this is to say hip hop needs to go away tho just that a new genre should start emerging during this generation.

 

[King Poetic]

music really need something..... from rap which is trash to R&B where it's a non factor , the shyt is flat

 

[315]

I think so. Or at least get back into some of the genres we stopped fukkin with

 

[Luke Cage]

Been past due, for a new genre.

 

[315]

There's a few thoughts in my head (I'm not an artist tho)

So there ain't no mixtape

 

[Roland Coltrane]

everything we invent builds off the shoulders of what came before

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

music really need something..... from rap which is trash to R&B where it's a non factor , the shyt is flat

Rap and R&B have become conflated and damn near indistinguishable.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

I think if we just spend more than 20 minutes writing and making the beat

Avoid COPYING other peoples sounds

Do not repeat the idea of any song you've ever heard. If you've ever heard it said a particular way, never never ever say it too. Think of a different thing to say

A different subject

A subject flipped in a different way

Hip Hop has a helluva lot of ground to be broken. Everybody just stopped exploring and started biting

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

black people never stopped playing instruments

it's just that style of music isn't as popular as it once was, but it is seeing a resurgence but in pockets.

 

[Premeditated]

ideally that would be the best thing to do

but you can't just wake up and start a new genre

 

[Koba St]

You don’t invent a new genre out of thin air. It’s always an evolution of what’s currently going on.

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

So there ain't no mixtape

there is and it's actually gonna be surprising, but I haven't pushed it outside of the locker room, let alone thecoli.

I don't think my artistry is "official" yet

 

[hustlemania]

So there ain't no mixtape

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Yes. 30 years from now rap will be majority white and asian.

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

ideally that would be the best thing to do

but you can't just wake up and start a new genre

I deadass remember reading somewhere that Fela Kuti was at a club in Ghana and they were playing a ton of James Brown and he respected him, but it annoyed him that Continental Africans didn't have a sound of their own. That was the night he decided he was going to create AfroBeat.