Hip-Hop bores me to tears.

I congratulate hip-hop artists and the genre is general, it has got to the point where white suburbian children around the world are nodding their heads.

That is a huge achievement, but once you get to that wide-spread appeal, the only way is down. The next generation will want to forge their own identity, and included in that indentity will be what they feel is their own music - historically, this is a reaction to the previous generations popular music.

So we are at hip-hops commercial and cultural peak.

I'm looking forward to what is coming next

Romance1600 said:

We'll have what the music industry wants us to have

Well that's actually quite true.

They only let through the flood-gates what they like.

All the older musical styles are still be made today by artists old and new alike, it's just they exist under and outside the charts.

Question rephrased: I wonder what sort of music the coke-induced board-meetings of record exec's will have flung into the charts next?

Romance1600 said:

What ever happened to the De La Soul years?

REAL MUSIC I HOPE.

I'm thinking more of rock/rap...more of the neo-soul type of music...music with live instruments...hip-hop will get back to the streets and having a conscience...I'm dreaming...but yeah...back to the De La Soul days...when you had options in music...you could hear De La, NWA and Public Enemy bumpin' from the same car...I actually miss the whole New Jack Swing thang...that's how bad music is today.

Rhondab said:

See. I'm with Rhondab. The late 80's - early 90's was to me the creative golden age of hip-hop. The styles were so varied that little seemed derivative. Let's take 1991-92 for example. We had De La Soul, Cypress Hill, Ice Cube, P.E., A Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, House of Pain, Redman, EPMD, the Beasties, The Pharcyde, Downtown Science, etc. were all in heavy rotation. Now, most of these bling-bling thuggish-ruggish emcees sound the same and hog most of the attention.

Romance1600 said:

How many yrs have critics been sayin' this??? 20 yrs later and Y'all ain't satisfield yet ??? hip hop will go through different stages, let's not forget the break dancing and all that ..... people thought after break dancing rap music was gon disappear but it's still here, y'all just gotta learn that rap music will be apart of history music just like rock n roll funk music and classical ....
[This message was edited Sun Jun 29 19:22:42 PDT 2003 by DigitalLisa]