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Originally Posted by SpongeBub
For me, it will be remembered as the time in which rap and hip hop took over popular music entirely  . Has there ever been a worse form of "music" in history? I only hope I live long enough to see the day when people look back at that stuff and go "wtf were we thinking?". How can that noise be popular when people like Todd Rundgren, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, David Sancious and Steve Howe are alive and making real music?  |
Well it's true, although rap hip hop is a legitimate genre.
Like if you go to track the roots and old school stuff they definitely have something to say.
On the other hand there's probably no other genre that would get crippled so much.
If you compare Public Enemy, Gang Starr, A tribe called quest or De La Soul to the shit that's now been served as "hip hop" or "rap" in the media it's like comparing a Da Vinci painting to a shit blasted on the wall.
Good call on Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea or David Sanborn, reminds me I haven't tapped into the jazz and fusion for a bit if I don't count listening to WBGO time from time.
Maybe it's gonna be more people who will consider going down that route, since the rock n roll is fucked and jazz n fusion successfully lives under the radar for a bit already, while the last time, when these things got a moderate cross over pop success was probably in the 70's with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles going crazy, Weather report and the whole fusion movement.