"What Group Sang Motown Philly".....?.....Who Is raising these kids?

[DaMos Supreme]

Motown Philly was never an obscure song. Jesus stop. Yall talking like that was a Mokenstef song.

 

[old pig]

Motown Philly was never an obscure song.

ya that song was played everywhere…I’m slapping myself that I never knew the title despite it being in the hook which I know most of smh

 

[Wildhundreds]

Products - Data Briefs - Number 232 - January 2016

An 18 y/o was born in 03/04 depending on month of birth.

24.9 was the average in 2000, 26.3 in 2014 and 29 now.

If you want to specify to Black, the average mother was 22.3 in 2000.

A parent of an 18 year old is averaging out 40-43 assuming it's their first child.

There you go.. I was 4 years off.. Sue me.

 

[Keengcong]

I knew the answer but I never liked that song… but I always thought that while new jack era was corny even as a young kid

my parents were blasting ojays, isleys, whispers, lutha, Whitney and shyt with real instruments.

my cousins and younger fam were banging nwa, ice cube, Geto boys, and local three six mafia tapes before they combined to make triple six mafia

them early east coast nikkas all looked like goofies

I’m glad Boyz 2 Men switched it up cause that bootleg new edition shyt was ass.

 

[Wildhundreds]

Do you only look at pictures?

A poster cleared it up because i was searching for black women specifically..

It's age 22.. Thats a total average.. Im sure if you break it down to urban cities and economic status, it'll probably be lower than that.. This particular song didn't resonate to everyone outside of african americans.

 

[cyndaquil]

I get your intent, but what's really being highlighted is the increasing disconnect between generations.

My grandmother put me on to Cab Calloway, Dizzie Gillespie, etc. Mom and aunts put me onto Diana Ross & The Supremes, Fats Domino, Little Richard, etc. I came up on James Brown, The Stylistics, The Brothers Johnson, Chic, etc. So, technically, my generation, X, was responsible for giving your generation a musical influence education like we'd gotten from our elders.

Unfortunately, a couple things happened that made that task nearly impossible. The first was the Internet. You didn't have to come to us for information since you could find it, yourself. The second was Biz Markie's lawsuit which changed licensing/sampling procedures.

I'm oversimplifying for brevity.

Suffice it to say it was MY Gen's obligation to give you what we got so you could appreciate Black music from times before you even existed.

We dropped the ball.​

The second I think is that the popular music in our community became to vulgar in the 2000s to play for your kids. You can play Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Jackson 5, Whitney Houston etc. to any age group. But as rap became the dominant music form in popularity and R&B more explicitly sexualized it's harder to pass that down.
For ever wholesome Jah Rule duet song there was like 3 or 4 vulgar 50 cent songs hitting the charts. I'm not saying it's impossible to pass that music shyt down but it becomes a lot harder and finding censored music is tough sometimes. Especially when you wanna listen to the inappropriate for kids shyt.

 

[Tom Foolery]

If these kids are 17, then the parents would have to be on average the age of 35.

Average age of the parent when given birth was 18yo?

 

[Wildhundreds]

Average age of giving birth was 18yo?

its been cleared up already breh..

This is an exclusively black thread about black music in 1991.. CACs wasn't fcking with this song. So the birth rate of white bytches don't need to be included with the stats of the women who gave birth to these young men..

Sorry if my original statement wasnt clear..

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

The second I think is that the popular music in our community became to vulgar in the 2000s to play for your kids. You can play Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Jackson 5, Whitney Houston etc. to any age group. But as rap became the dominant music form in popularity and R&B more explicitly sexualized it's harder to pass that down.
For ever wholesome Jah Rule duet song there was like 3 or 4 vulgar 50 cent songs hitting the charts. I'm not saying it's impossible to pass that music shyt down but it becomes a lot harder and finding censored music is tough sometimes. Especially when you wanna listen to the inappropriate for kids shyt.

Yeah, that's a HUGE issue, now. I recall my elders not allowing me to listen to 'suggestive' songs when I was a kid, but they were all disco songs like Love to Love You by Donna Summer, and Fight the Power by the Isley Brothers. They even threw a fit with Superfreak by Rick James.​

Now, you got WAP by Megan the Stallion.​

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[JadeB]

Well, that's one way to teach them about our culture. At this point, I ain't shocked these kids don't know the artists/songs from that era as the primary avenues and vectors of transmission of that info were SEVERELY curtailed by Biz Markie's lawsuit in 1991.​

Tell me more about that

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Tell me more about that

Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. - Wikipedia.​

 

[semicko82]

Motown philly was the only song I liked from Boyz 2 Men. All that other shyt I never bumped even in their prime.

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[Blessings]

My son would have answered it, he stay on 80's and 90's R&B mode.
I found out during covid when the kids were all home. I come in from work and can here the music bumping upstairs. I'm thinking my wife is up there jamming. Go up and find my son playing Mario kart with R&B bumping


Said he remembers them from me always playing them in the car and he found a play list that he ripped from youtube

My son would have answered it, he stay on 80's and 90's R&B mode.
I found out during covid when the kids were all home. I come in from work and can here the music bumping upstairs. I'm thinking my wife is up there jamming. Go up and find my son playing Mario kart with R&B bumping


Said he remembers them from me always playing them in the car and he found a play list that he ripped from youtube

GOALS

 

[semicko82]

By the time End of the Road came around, it became an obscure song.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Motown philly was the only song I liked from Boyz 2 Men. All that other shyt I never bumped even in their prime.

Yeah, that track got played-out REAL quick. There was too much New Jack Swing piff for that song to remain
popular for as long as it was, IMO.

Haven't played it, personally, since maybe the end of the 90's.​