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

[IllmaticDelta]

I have nothing against Adele or any of those artists. It's the fans.

We in the gentrification era of black music right now.

Our services are no longer needed.

This is what happens when you have to base everything on a sound, which anybody can replicate.

Adele, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Bieber, Diplo, all make a killing cause of their fans...who love black music but don't feel the same way about black people. So now they have artists they can relate too. Same with all of these trap EDM guys like RL Grime and Bro Safari.

It already happened to house music and techno in the 90s. Paul Oakenfold was criticized by Derrick May and Juan Atkins for taking the sound and showcasing it to larger audiences when he went on tour with U2 in 1991.

As much as I love Daft Punk, I'm not gonna pretend like their career wasn't based off of jacking black ghetto house DJs like Paul Johnson and DJ Funk from Chicago. But atleast they gave them credit and put them on to audiences that never heard of those people before. Hence the reason why they barely showed themselves in pictures and donned the robot costumes. If people knew Daft Punk was two white guys from Paris from the jump, they wouldn't of had the same effect.

In a perfect world artists of all races should and would get the same appeal and respect, but that's not happening especially in North America where money precedes the art of music.

see thread on the topic

ARE WHITES TAKING OVER RHYTHM AND BLUES? (1988/89 article in Ebony)

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

Quoting so everybody can read this

Hey, middle aged out of shape white women need someone they can relate too...Adele fills that void.
They like her cause she's "real". She's repping the "Stop body shaming" generation of women.

Let's be honest. There was only so long they could take someone like Beyonce....who looked better than them, had a better life, has a more successful husband, dominating the game.

Again though, Beyonce at the end of the day will always be black...and those same audiences will always feel some type of way about that no matter how much they try to supress it and act like that isn't the case.

Y'all ain't know.





But to be trill. That's a human nature thing

 

[hex]

But black people don't make up the majority of urban radio audiences and what radio station really operates off of song requests though? hasn't been that way since the 90s. I used to work in radio, college radio, and do mixshows. Had three shows. In 2002. 2008-2009.

You have to play bin cuts and favorites. It's worse when you get to the majors. No requests. It all operates off of sales and payola. You can blame the telecommunications act of 1996 for that.

And why are we militants for pointing out the obvious? This has been a thing since the days of Elvis and Pat Boone. Nothing new under the sun.

Breh I don't know why you bothered posting this. You can always tell which posters don't really post in The Booth.

Fred.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Quoting so everybody can read this

nothing new, it's called the "elvis factor"

same thing Eminem talked about in "White America"

 

[JustCKing]

I love how everybody tries to keep an Open Mind and thoroughly engage in honest debates.

But how much longer with the psyche games?



Let's not pretend that it has everything to do with her voice .. That's ridiculous. So much more than what meets the surface on that

Every non-Hip Hop or R&B artist that was played on a R&B or Hip Hop station had a Hip Hop beat and/or featured a rapper. Lorde got play because it has a Hip Hop sounding beat and more so because Ross un-officially had a verse on it. Katy Perry got play with her songs because she had rappers on them (Snoop, Kanye, Juicy J, and Missy Elliott). Sam Smith dropped a Darkchild remix of his song featuring Mary J. Blige. Ed Sheeran had a single produced by Pharrell.

Adele is getting played on those stations vs. Taylor Swift and a host of other acts who can't/don't without having a rapper or Hip Hop producer.

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

Yeah we really gotta do a better job of the narrative of this shyt.



Whining doesn't do anybody any favors. The history aspect is wassup tho.



People come online talking about Things that aren't really things and it goes on for 30 pages.


It's like talking to a Child about how the "Monsters in the closet" are really just The IRS & The Police and the people who support them..... If that makes sense

 

[DreadBrown]

Adele's machine is big enough to get play anywhere, the day the song debuted they played the shyt on the 6 o clock news.

I wouldnt call it 'rnb' (which is a term white people made up to get other whites to buy 'negro music') more like 'white soul'. Sam Smith, Ed sheeran, Amy Winehouse they're all the same.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

People are still listening to the radio in 2016 instead of having your phone hooked up via AUX in the car

I still listen to cds in the car

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

Every non-Hip Hop or R&B artist that was played on a R&B or Hip Hop station had a Hip Hop beat and/or featured a rapper. Lorde got play because it has a Hip Hop sounding beat and more so because Ross un-officially had a verse on it. Katy Perry got play with her songs because she had rappers on them (Snoop, Kanye, Juicy J, and Missy Elliott). Sam Smith dropped a Darkchild remix of his song featuring Mary J. Blige. Ed Sheeran had a single produced by Pharrell.

Adele is getting played on those stations vs. Taylor Swift and a host of other acts who can't/don't without having a rapper or Hip Hop producer.

It doesn't work that way bro. Future sounds like David Guetta but you don't see him at EDM shows now do you?

 

[PhonZhi]

because HIP HOP stations are NOT black stations...

we don't own shyt.....the bulk of these "radio personatlies look like this"

so why yall so shocked???

black radio hasn't represented the community since WBLS got sold by the Percy Sutton family of harlem to a big media conglomerate...

EMMIS BROADCASTING and CLEAR CHANNEL don't give a rat's azz about your culture

Thank u

 

[Gold]

nothing new, it's called the "elvis factor"

same thing Eminem talked about in "White America"

Nothing new true, but Adele makes even less sense to me because she isn't even those genres.

But yes I agree, this is the same reason, cac machine

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[Twilight]

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.

 

[Dushane Hill]

Because black Americans are obsessed with british cacs

 

[PhonZhi]

And yet pop stations dont extend the same courtesy to black singers

 

[JordanwiththeWiz]

They been doing shyt like that

I remember they use to play Amy Winehouse - Rehab a bunch and that Royal song by Lorde