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

[IllmaticDelta]

The music he did with the Neptunes and Timbaland fits "R&B" to me and records like this :


Do not exist if Funk and Disco never came into being.

Robin Thicke is pretty much R&B through and through,I mean I don't think there's
much room for interpreting what he's been doing from the jump.

I don't know how anyone can deny that Thicke and Timberlake aren't R&B. Both of their styles are based on Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. I would even throw in Michael Jackson.

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

Why are we talking about Adele, Timberlake, and thicke when there's Maxwell, Kem, and Ne-Yo? Miguel makes better music than the whole blue eyed soul thing

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

I need some history on what they do. It's cool and all what you doin but we got people out Today that's just as good that only got time to get greater later

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Breh.
IF her music is getting played on a HIP HOP STATION something is CLEARLY amiss.

I've never heard Adele on a strictly HipHop station but I have heard her on HipHop & R&B stations

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

@Christopher browns

 

[IllmaticDelta]

She is but to discredit black persons influence in her music, they say pop. The same thing with Justin Timberlake. He makes R&B, Katy Perry's music has R&B genes, Taylor Swift "Shake It Off", need I say more? Pop just means popular.

Yup. I mentioned this before that they use code words like "Pop" and "Dance" to obscure music with black roots when made by white people or a person they're trying to market to white audiences

 

[IllmaticDelta]

They been doing shyt like that

I remember they use to play Amy Winehouse - Rehab

that song was straight up retro early 1960's Soul/motown with a modern twist

a bunch and that Royal song by Lorde

If you remove her being white, that song was based in/on ATL Snap music

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

that song was straight up retro early 1960's Soul/motown with a modern twist




If you remove her being white, that song was based in/on ATL Snap music

Ironically, she was ridiculing nikkas and c00ns on their own shyt.

Rick Ross, the biggest simp thus far, remixed that record when he is explicitly the epitome of what the protagonist despises.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

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.

yeah, that cracks me up too

 

[JustCKing]

She is but to discredit black persons influence in her music, they say pop. The same thing with Justin Timberlake. He makes R&B, Katy Perry's music has R&B genes, Taylor Swift "Shake It Off", need I say more? Pop just means popular.

Giving an artist the "Pop" label isn't done to discredit a black person's influence in her music. It's done to broaden her audience. There's a reason why Michael Jackson has the label of King of Pop vs. King of R&B or King of Soul.

Justin Timberlake is a Pop artist because he was in a band that made bubble-gum Pop music. He transitioned into a solo who still made Pop music with R&B and Hip Hop influences. Pop is "genre-less" music, but it's intended for a commercial, mainstream audience. It's a specific format in which any genre of music can fit. It's when your song crosses over and reaches the mainstream.

 

[KushSkywalker]

I don't hear Adele on hip hop stations.

I do hear this song though



And a lot of people seem to think it's Adele.

 

[ORDER_66]

No black people own radio stations, so they cannot dictate what gets played on the air.... emmis communications and clear channel makes the rules and the playlists too...

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

yes because soul music or black american music in general was the music with those vocal qualities that whites were imitating


According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying".[2] Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the soloist and the chorus, and an especially tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds

This post is what I'm talking about... There is no formula or equation for soul music...... None

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Giving an artist the "Pop" label isn't done to discredit a black person's influence in her music. It's done to broaden her audience. There's a reason why Michael Jackson has the label of King of Pop vs. King of R&B or King of Soul.

Justin Timberlake is a Pop artist because he was in a band that made bubble-gum Pop music. He transitioned into a solo who still made Pop music with R&B and Hip Hop influences. Pop is "genre-less" music, but it's intended for a commercial, mainstream audience. It's a specific format in which any genre of music can fit. It's when your song crosses over and reaches the mainstream.

Yes, It's a marketing gimmick made to obscure the origins so they can target the larger white audiences. Same reason why R&B became "Rock n Roll"

 

[Canada Goose]

Breh.
IF her music is getting played on a HIP HOP STATION something is CLEARLY amiss.

You don't hear Jay-Z on the "Country western" station DO YOU ?
You don't hear System of a down on "Smooth Jazz/Easy Listening" station DO YOU ?
Posters so intent on combating invisible coli militants they ignore the TOPIC of the thread.

"Requesting a Song" NAH, more like her label said "Gimme 30,000 spins in this
region, on this channel, at this time or you lose your damn job as a DJ".

Now I can't personally say I've heard Adele on the "Hip-Hop" stations but then again, I rarely if ever
listen to the radio.

Timberlake and Robin Thicke pretty obviously make "R&B" music not the contemporary
"Pop" of Katy Perry or Taylor Swift.
So, no, I wouldn't call them "Pop" artists if we're talking about the actual MUSIC.

In NYC both Power 105 and Hot 97 play Hip Hip AND R&B, I never heard of a Hip Hop exclusive station on the regular radio... those online stations, yea? But regular radio? Nah, not saying they don't exist but I never heard of it

They have a R&B only station in NY called WBLS and Adele is played on there, most of the playlist is oldies like Ronald Isley, Anita Baker, etc.