Why Is Adele Getting Play on Hip-Hop Stations???

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

So people are acting like rap isnt Pop now? Why do you think Drake is damn big? Hip hop isnt real hiphop anymore. Its pop music over urban beats. If you mad about adele being on hiphop stations, be mad at yourself if you condoned and support this wack ass rap game that have made the two genres symbiotic.

Who listens to radio anyway? :stopitdenzel:

That's the thing. Nobody really supported this type of thing ever.


It was "forced" on people thru Economics and Good Marketing.



None of us woke up one morning and said "we need more eurocentric influence in african-american culture". It was never a thing, it just happened. Not saying that people didn't use ideas and try to get people to understand the world outside of their front door. I swear that's not what I'm sayin (that's mad ignorant )


But the excess of the shyt wasn't in the plans. Nobody was like "we need more white program directors in the Industry" and "we always need to overemphasize the N-Word every other song or Bar" and all that dumb shyt like that. It wasn't a thing. It just happened that way, truthfully. We didn't do that, they just wanted to sell it that way becuz it's what they liked and they made sure (thru us) that alotta of it sounded good & authentic.


And I ain't sayin that all fingerprints are the same, but I ain't Willy Lump Lump either. And neither are most people, it's already known except for people who aren't really into Music/Entertainment/Culture like that.

 

[smokeurobinson]

I think its because of traction. I was wondering why The Breakfast Club would play Top 40 and try to disguise it as some sort of "morning rush hour" mix. It was out of place hearing Avicii on a Hip Hop station. So I concluded that they were trying to get that Top 40 traction which is sad because it means that you dont trust the music to stand on its own so you have to lure in an outside crowd to boost listeners.

 

[smokeurobinson]

The writing was written on the wall for the hip hop format of hot 97 years ago.....when i heard FunkMaster Flex drop Lady Gaga "pokerface" and that group LMFAO "everyday im shuffling" in the mix

Further then that....Flex in 1994 and 1995 was on that purist tip. He would sh*t on rappers who didnt meet the standard. He would constantly sh*t on Shaq for trying to rap because he didnt fit the high standard of what we considered real Hip Hop. But years later he started spinning Nelly's "EI" and thats when the writing was on the wall. 1994/1995 Flex would never spin Nelly.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Would his label market Future to that crowd though? Would his fans follow or would they turn on him and accuse him of selling out?

I dont think people realize nowadays that most people that are fans of future are edm fans as well.

Why? Cause of his sound. There's no difference in what he does than what the modern edm trap dj plays. In fact people like DJ Snake and Diplo play Future tracks in their sets.

At this point im like "go get that money" there aint nothing wrong with trying to attract new fans by doing something like that.

Lil Jon been eating off of EDM now...he djs regularly in Vegas and Miami.

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

Would his label market Future to that crowd though? Would his fans follow or would they turn on him and accuse him of selling out?

It's not a matter of his Team, it's a matter if they're going to let him in the Venues.


Why wouldn't you think Future (or any other Artist) wouldn't want money? Unless it doesn't make sense of course

 

[JustCKing]

It's not a matter of his Team, it's a matter if they're going to let him in the Venues.


Why wouldn't you think Future (or any other Artist) wouldn't want money? Unless it doesn't make sense of course

It's not a matter of wanting the money. It's whether them going after it will hinder what they've already built. For example, look at an artist like Lil' Jon. He's basically in that Guetta lane. He can DJ and drop EDM records because the music (crunk) that made him a household name isn't viable. Future's music is what's in so him going that route jeopardizes what he's already established.

 

[JustCKing]

I dont think people realize nowadays that most people that are fans of future are edm fans as well.

Why? Cause of his sound. There's no difference in what he does than what the modern edm trap dj plays. In fact people like DJ Snake and Diplo play Future tracks in their sets.

At this point im like "go get that money" there aint nothing wrong with trying to attract new fans by doing something like that.

Lil Jon been eating off of EDM now...he djs regularly in Vegas and Miami.

There's a difference in what Future does and EDM. Future's music is still very much street. EDM Trap is the more commercialized version of what Future does. Lil' Jon can eat off EDM because there's not a place for the type of music he used to do anymore.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Further then that....Flex in 1994 and 1995 was on that purist tip. He would sh*t on rappers who didnt meet the standard. He would constantly sh*t on Shaq for trying to rap because he didnt fit the high standard of what we considered real Hip Hop. But years later he started spinning Nelly's "EI" and thats when the writing was on the wall. 1994/1995 Flex would never spin Nelly.

yeah of course those in the industry and media knew about Funk Flex and his blatant Payola Prostitution run in the mid to late 90's and early 2000s

which was how No Limit was the first southern brand to get stamped by Flex .....

Flex was "nasty" with it, just straight sellout....all types of product placement , and sponsorships and tie in marketing

he also had his "big dawg pitbull" team basically playing the same "hits" (shyt) throughout the nation....cause they all were TAKING $$$ from the labels and artists


can't forget the Def Jam/Tunnel hustle that had a hold on Flex along with Krs One putting him on blast about how he gave flex like 5g's to spin a record in rotation , when Krs One was an A&R at Giant Records....



all this shyt got exposed by New York state attorney general Eliott Spitzer following a decade long investigation into payola and the radio industry....

once Spitzer start setting his probe on Clear Chanel radio after making Warner and Universal fork over bread in settlement fines.

Clear Chanel whose execs were "friends" of the Bush Administration were not happy...

cause Spitzer was also coming after them for violating anti-trust laws that allowed them to swallow up the urban market with as many stations within a market as they pleased....

next thing you know ....whistleblower Spitzer was involved in a "scandal" that forced him to resign from office.......

yup...it's gets "gangsta"

I was just saying the "writing on the wall" for the general public became recently over the past 5 years...where Flex like the majority of "deejays" became a straight marketing personality for corporate America with the help of his "boss" Ebro

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

theres no soul in any of the adele music that i heard.

shes basically what celine dion was 20 years ago. but no way in hell would you hear celine dion on black radio or "black" video stations.

ive yet to hear her on radio here, and i shouldnt.

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

It's not a matter of wanting the money. It's whether them going after it will hinder what they've already built. For example, look at an artist like Lil' Jon. He's basically in that Guetta lane. He can DJ and drop EDM records because the music (crunk) that made him a household name isn't viable. Future's music is what's in so him going that route jeopardizes what he's already established.

Nobody's thinking that hard about Hip Hop like that bro. Unless you go way off the deep end with it and "lose it"


Nobody's immune from whoring themselves out to death or watering down everything they've built, especially for a quick buck. But this isn't the 90s, no one cares. Especially when you're dealing with the same [paying] audience in both markets.



If Future or any Artist can't handle that Balance & Pressure then that's on them. I hope they got hella Bloggers on payroll trying to read thru YouTube & Twitter & Coli comments tryna figure what's hot and what's not



Like that's a real thing as well

 

[Gold]

I like Adele, she can definitely sing. But she can't SANG. I wouldn't call her voice soulful at all, in fact I think Kelly Clarkson is a better vocalist as far as white girls go.

And play on hop hop stations? Very strange indeed.

theres no soul in any of the adele music that i heard.

shes basially what celine dion was 20 years ago. but no way in hell would you hear celine dion on black radio or "black" video stations.

ive yet to hear her on radio here, and i shouldnt.

That's exactly the point i'm making.
When black people don't even know what our own genres sound like...

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

That's exactly the point i'm making.
When black people don't even know what our own genres sound like...

I wouldn't even say it's that. I honestly think we're too hard on ourselves and not hard enough on them.


Sure, we can't expect lil T.T. in preschool to automatically know who Anita Baker is verses whoever else. But that doesn't mean she'll grow up to think Adele is what "real Black music" sounds like.

 

[Gold]

I wouldn't even say it's that. I honestly think we're too hard on ourselves and not hard enough on them.


Sure, we can't expect lil T.T. in preschool to automatically know who Anita Baker is verses whoever else. But that doesn't mean she'll grow up to think Adele is what "real Black music" sounds like.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Her music kinda reminds me of Whitney and Mariah in the 90s..

 

[Unknown Poster]

That's exactly the point i'm making.
When black people don't even know what our own genres sound like...

It gets on my nerves when people on here say house or techno or any edm is that "euro" sound.

Its like yall forget that black people in chicago and detroit created that sound....not gay white dudes in europe.