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

[Kingshango]

wasnt it in gta5?

GTA San Andreas, which is likely older than the kids in the video.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

You’re puzzled as to why a bunch of 16/17 year old kids don’t know off the bat who sang a song that came out 30 years ago?

This generational disconnect with Black music is a recent phenomenon. Us older cats didn't experience it, so, many of us can't fathom how they haven't been exposed to older beats like we were from our elders.

I mean, I can't stand what was done to one of my favorite songs of all time, but, I appreciate that it was introduced to a new generation to appreciate how DOPE it was....

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[Canon]

this thread is a black test

 

[Tribal Outkast]

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.​

And it’s funny cause we had less than these kids now. They got damn near all the music ever in their pockets but don’t know older music. I had to wait til my parents fired up the record player, watch soul train, or watch music videos that came on late at night and shyt. It was a chore to listen to music as a kid in the early 80’s, but we got our hands on a lot. Everything changed once cable became a big deal

 

[Wildhundreds]

And once again, the average age of a new parent wasn't 18 in 2000. What are you being a curmudgeon for?

Whats the average age of the parent of an 18 year old today?

 

[concise]

Whats the average age of the parent of an 18 year old today?

Products - Data Briefs - Number 232 - January 2016.

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

Nah breh I get your point but the old heads put me up on game with

chaka khan
steve wonder
smokey
etc...


I got put on

In 96-97
I was listening to Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Donny Hathaway, Etta James, James Brown

I loved The Isley Bros, I discovered those artists as a teen and groups from the 60s & 70s

So to me it's this generation

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

Let me clarify my point. Personally, at that age, I knew Al Green, MJ, Teddy Pendergrass, Prince, Chaka Khan, Teena Marie, etc. My youngins (16 & 20) would know Motown Philly. They might fuk around and know it's by Boyz II Men.

90s and 00s rap & R&B was played heavily in our household, and in their adolescence. I felt it was my duty, to make sure they knew, what House Party, Class Act, The Last Dragon, meant. I explain to my youngins, what the Only You (remix), or Mo Money, Mo Problems meant, when I was their age (in Junior High). I restore the feelin.

shyt..The Goonies, The Lost Boys, and cac shyt, too. Nonetheless...that's how we did it. You best believe theres folks, who only bumped current shyt around their kids, and never put them on, to Jodeci, or Tony Tone Toni, etc. But we're a different generation of parents. Nggas were 14, 15 in the late 90s havin babies already (in junior high). That wasn't the norm, in our parents generation.

You gotta remember...our parents (likely baby boomers) were OLDER parents (old souls). Kids today are being raised by kids (at heart/culturally). It's a difference.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Shame

 

[Wildhundreds]

Products - Data Briefs - Number 232 - January 2016.

That bottom green graph on that chart, in the year 2000 is between 0 and 26..

 

[concise]

That bottom green graph on that chart, in the year 2000 is between 0 and 26..

Do you only look at pictures?

The mean age of first-time mothers increased 1.4 years, from 24.9 in 2000 to 26.3 in 2014.

 

[old pig]

I don't know that song.

I didn’t know it by title…felt like an idiot when I googled it tho lol

 

[old pig]

i bet cac kids know the answer.

I taught 100s of them…no they don’t.

shyt many of them weren’t familiar with new kids on the block and the other white boy bands I can’t remember

shyt some of them thought movies from the 80s were in black and white

idk why folks love insisting that young ppl “need” to be familiar with shyt that was cool when they were younger when that was hardly the case for kids in their generation

 

[EndDomination]

i bet cac kids know the answer.

its like how jazz became a cac art form right in front of us. we create something, it becomes popular, then we let others curate and appreciate it. sad

There are substantially less white kids their age who know who Boyz II Men are, than there are Black kids.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Well the point was for him to ask a question no one knew so they could run. They there to run; it ain’t music class. Mothafukkas holding state of the black unions in over some dumb shyt lol. It ain’t important for kids to know Boyz 2 Men 10th most known song. Let these kids live they life

 

[Shadow King]

Whats the average age of the parent of an 18 year old today?

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.