Why hasn’t black culture evolved pass the 90s
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the culture became anti intelligence*
MisterMajesty
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Why hasn't it evolved? as people we have evolved, sure. (as someone put it above). But the actual music? and how its handled? simple...Corporatisation. It's built, packaged and sold. It'll stay that way until a new music comes along that the suits DON'T understand or under-estimate
OperationNumbNutts
Superstar
It has been capitalized with few black majority shareholders.
OperationNumbNutts
Superstar
Sad but excellent point.
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
It's not the same as '93 rn
If we using media as the metric...Insecure, Atlanta, Power, and anything involving Jordan Peele etc ALONE is destroying this narrative.
Sure, movies could be remade but the same can be said for plenty of "white" movies. Doesn't mean culture hasn't changed.
Don’t forget Grande Crew
I have been thinking about this too. Mentally, black men haven't evolved past the 90's gangsta rap era.
But I think it's a broader trend across all of society. We've talked about it on here before, about this being the age of decadence and how wealth and comfortability slows down cultural change and innovation.
But I think it's a broader trend across all of society. We've talked about it on here before, about this being the age of decadence and how wealth and comfortability slows down cultural change and innovation.
OperationNumbNutts
Superstar
Respectfully disagree. In the 90s hip hop had a variety from gangstas to happy dudes like Will Smith. It's now focused on female thot rappers and knucklehead talking about killing.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
Birds out here aspiring to be the concubine of lean head ass rappers/“drug dealer”
FeverPitch2
Superstar
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majority of folks aspire to present themselves to the world in the image of the absolute lowest of the low
no sense of style & presentation
no awareness of how these things impact the way the world deals with you & receives you
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GoinInsane
Rookie
These devils and their social engineering.
That's just that with that.
FeverPitch2
Superstar
I totally understand what the OP is getting at.
The reason why it feels like all the fun stopped once the year hit 2000 is because in the mid to late 90's corporations finally figured out how to synthesize and commodify Black culture.
The innovations of Black culture feed directly into America culture as a whole.
Instead of letting the culture grow organically in the Black community and allowing it to spread to the rest of the nation, the corporations are using "influencers" to direct which way they want the culture to grow.
They genetically engineer our culture, so to speak.
The once the product of that influence is fully formed, then they package it and sell it back to us.
The rise of Lil Wayne is prime example of this. The Kardashians as well. Death Row Records.
Then the cycle repeats.
It just so happens that all of the trends and cultural artifacts are destructive and Black people are actively celebrating our own destruction.
Not only that, but we reap only a tiny slice of the extravagant revenue that the culture stream generates.
As a society, we're getting dumber, more crass and unsophisticated, more violent and hedonistic, more cruel, more promiscuous, more unhappy, and overall more gross.
And almost everything you see coming from a mass media source is pushing you further down that path.
The reason why it feels like all the fun stopped once the year hit 2000 is because in the mid to late 90's corporations finally figured out how to synthesize and commodify Black culture.
The innovations of Black culture feed directly into America culture as a whole.
Instead of letting the culture grow organically in the Black community and allowing it to spread to the rest of the nation, the corporations are using "influencers" to direct which way they want the culture to grow.
They genetically engineer our culture, so to speak.
The once the product of that influence is fully formed, then they package it and sell it back to us.
The rise of Lil Wayne is prime example of this. The Kardashians as well. Death Row Records.
Then the cycle repeats.
It just so happens that all of the trends and cultural artifacts are destructive and Black people are actively celebrating our own destruction.
Not only that, but we reap only a tiny slice of the extravagant revenue that the culture stream generates.
As a society, we're getting dumber, more crass and unsophisticated, more violent and hedonistic, more cruel, more promiscuous, more unhappy, and overall more gross.
And almost everything you see coming from a mass media source is pushing you further down that path.
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Pass me the rock nikka
One thing that hasn’t changed is referring to one another as “bytches and nikkas”
