Hip Hop Uk Chart
Just why is 90% of current chart music watered down R&B and Hip-Hop?
In the UK, are we really so brain-dead that our only idea of popular music is Soulja Boy et al????
Does anyone actually remember what R&B stands for????? (a rhetorical question)
What happened to the variety – even as recently as late nineties there was something for everyone.
When did we become lovers of the awfully diluted genres of ‘R&B’ and Hip Hop?
Funny you mention this….I graduated high school in 1995 and I witnessed the birth of this trend. By the time I graduated, it seemed like practically every song was some irritating, moany R&B song…not long after I graduated, rap began having #1 hits on the pop charts. If you check out the old Billboard charts, rap began making mainstream waves in the late ’80s, rap albums began to have a real chart presence in the early ’90s with the advent of Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic” and Snoop Doggy Dogg’s (as he was called then) “Doggystyle”, and around 1995-1996, rap singles started hitting #1. There were also more crossover songs…for example, Mariah Carey started having rappers do guest vocals on some of her songs and Puff Daddy began ripping off the melodies from classic songs like “Every Breath You Take” and “Kashmir”.
I don’t know how old you are, but as you get older, you realize that popular music and a lot of pop culture really does belong to young teenagers….if you don’t believe me, go to the Movies section and check how many questions are about “Twilight”. Young teens have generally not developed a sense of critical thinking and are susceptible to fall in love with things that are irritating, obviously “flash in the pan”, and/or childishly “risque” (“Dick in a Box”). It was no different when I was younger.
I may get some sh*t for this, but i think part of the reason is that black people seldom listen to music by white artists, and a lot of white people look to blacks for hipness and cultural trends. When I was in school, it was pretty comical to see middle-class Midwestern suburban kids modify their dialect to sound more like they came from urban Detroit or Chicago. There is a certain “toughness” to rap that appeals to a lot of dorky white kids who are sensitive about growing up in a moderately privileged environment.
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