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

Is it time for a new genre of music?


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Wear My Dawg's Hat

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I just don't see it happening again.

The elements in the community that previously cultivated music creation and innovation are no longer in place.

Grass-roots, around-the-way, live music performing has all but disappeared.

Performing live music for audiences in: churches, living rooms, classrooms, nightclubs, school talent shows, marching bands, the housing project community room, street corners (doo wop), the family basement, the outdoor park jam in the summer, the family reunion picnic, the local radio stations' "battle of the bands" -- most of it is gone.

The music philosopher once said: How can I move the crowd? First of all, no mistakes allowed."

No other racial/ethnic group possessed this comprehensive ecosystem to develop music culture.

Music doesn't occupy the cherished place in our culture today, that it used to.

For arguments sake, the golden era for Colored/Negro/Black/African-American contemporary popular music was the 20th Century: 1900 - 2000.
 

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Tech also plays a major role in music. From string instruments to the mpc.

We just aren't there yet with what we've got, even with DAWs being so versatile.

This seems crazy to say, seeing as how vsts can make nearly any sound imaginable.

I think when the accessibility becomes a little less technical, innovation musically will follow.
 
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The other day I came to conclusion that I can't support any form of rap indulges in killing, robbing, gang banging, prostitution or any form of promoting instead addressing degeneracy. There are a few rare exceptions like Tupac, Big, or Quik....

Every other contemporary artist is out of my rotation.

Solid hiphop artist / groups like the roots, mos def, common, etc will always be in my playlist. That's that positive get right shyt...

Nowadays I'm not even trying hear lyrics for the most part. Why? Because there's nothing that a 22 year old rapper like Blueface could possibly tell me about life.

Getting women? Killing someone? Stunting on someone? :rudy:

I've dabbling instrumental chillhop for the past 10 years.

Smooth sounds from artists like masego and nujabes are the wave. It's blend of hiphop heavily influenced by jazz elements like the sax and trumpet. It's very chill.





This is grown man shyt, that i can listen to and get my mind right :whew:
If cats can dominate this lane of making very chill beats, I'd gladly pay for it.

YEA my nikka. I ain't listen to rap seriously in years man. All about those instrumentals. Masego definitely talented.

I've been making my own music rather than even listening to it :francis:
 

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Generation Y are Millennials, we're old and the youngest are 24, we're not creating anything new and relevant. Generation Z are the youth atm an they're loving their Soundcloud shyt and hip hop is the biggest genre atm. We probably have another cultural generation, perhaps the infants right now until something new is created.

By then we'll all be too old to appreciate whatever mess they come up with.

My bad I meant Generation Z I'm actually Y myself lol.
 

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But...YOU CAN...

You can literally wake up tomorrow and start doing something else.

Me myself, i'm working on this thing where I just start talking over tight-ass beats.

:russ:Some Oran "Juice" Jones type shyt?



people just gone follow everything we do. The problem is we have to enforce shyt when it comes to our culture now. People like Post Malone out here telling everybody he thinks rap aint shyt, and where were all these other rappers at to let everybody know he's not "cool" anymore? I'm not even saying they have to put hands on him or run up...just make him uncool. And you have too many people handing out "passes". It's just about enforcement. Black people are going to naturally evolving the music anyways, that's not an issue.

This.

You got 6Nine & all these Latinos and Whites calling us nikkaz and nikkaz saying it's cool and dudes making Hannah Montanna a thing.

I knew it was dead when Raekwon was working with Justin Bieber:mjlol:
 

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:russ:Some Oran "Juice" Jones type shyt?



Hell yeah... I mean, most muffuccas don't remember none of the sung lyrics to that chit,
But they damn sure know the hook and the talking part!

I'm telling y'all that's what's next...and I'm already on the chit...
 

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Hell yeah... I mean, most muffuccas don't remember none of the sung lyrics to that chit,
But they damn sure know the hook and the talking part!

I'm telling y'all that's what's next...and I'm already on the chit...
mo bamba didn't have one rhyme in it. nikka talked over a banger and the kids ate it up...
 

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this would knock out a lot of the amateur hour cats

and leave the dedicated
i think there is a deliberate attempt to stop this, in the music industry
For whatever reason

But also i think black people should do more to celebrate and cultivate this. How do you get a stevie wonder or a prince without that:snoop:
 

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It’s crazy you make this thread becuz just the other day I heard Black Moon on the local 30 and up station. fukking Black Moon!

I’ve never felt more :flabbynsick:

This station never used to play hip hop. When a song like Erykah Badu’s Love of My Life came on they would take Common off. Over the past 5 years or so they started incorporating some old school shyt like Big Daddy Kane and Run DMC. Now I hear old Tribe and Big shyt on regular rotation right alongside Anita Baker and the Isleys. So yea it’s time. The problem is our music creations have always come from a source of pain. In this social media era where everybody is fronting and scared to show vulnerability is that even possible?

That is true about pain but you are thinking on a national level. Remember hip hop was birthed out of the Bronx who during that time was going through extreme pain and turmoil. Its always been the poorest borough but what was happening there was the perfect moment for a culture movement to be born.

Now I can see certain cities today where this could happen again...Chicago is one place with not just the violence but how people talk about the city and everyone has been leaving even more lately. I just get the vibe that somewhere out there it could be some youths being more passionate about getting into music outside of rap. Even if not a new genre i would not be shocked if during the 100 year anniversary decade of the Harlem Renaissance to see a city like Chicago go through a popularity in jazz again
 

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I just don't see it happening again.

The elements in the community that previously cultivated music creation and innovation are no longer in place.

Grass-roots, around-the-way, live music performing has all but disappeared.

Performing live music for audiences in: churches, living rooms, classrooms, nightclubs, school talent shows, marching bands, the housing project community room, street corners (doo wop), the family basement, the outdoor park jam in the summer, the family reunion picnic, the local radio stations' "battle of the bands" -- most of it is gone.

The music philosopher once said: How can I move the crowd? First of all, no mistakes allowed."

No other racial/ethnic group possessed this comprehensive ecosystem to develop music culture.

Music doesn't occupy the cherished place in our culture today, that it used to.

For arguments sake, the golden era for Colored/Negro/Black/African-American contemporary popular music was the 20th Century: 1900 - 2000.

People are scared to step out of the comfort zone nowadays and always thinking about "money" instead of making a dope product. That paradigm of instant success is why another new musicform ain't coming out because people conform to safe money.
 
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