Thursday, February 20, 2014
Cameo - Single Life
REAL music(they're a funk band, silly)
REAL dancing(booty poppin & twerkin are NOT dancing)
This seems so innocent compared to what we have today.
Save hiphop?!!! Save me from hiphop....
Frankly,I'm sick of hearing about what corporations or whoever did to hiphop..what about what hiphop did to music?! Rap should've only lasted a few years like disco, but noooo,too many people stopped listening to real musicians & bands & ONLY listened to rap & it took over the airwaves, then before you knew it, R&B & pop songs started to sound a lot different- no more riffs,solos, or extended jams- suddenly,club-bangin beats became more important, I guess it takes too much effort to listen to a song where more than one instrument is being played at the same time.
So,the public starts to "think" rappers are more cool than people who play instruments.
And what in the hell happened to the kids who spent hours listening to Prince's Sign "O" The Times album in the late 80s, oh, I guess I was the only one, all my so-called peers had already moved on to rap, so when they grew up & had kids, they didn't expose them to examples of musicianship like the record I just mentioned...if they did, then, they would wanna grow up & be multi-instrumentalists, not rappers. And when I say the "the public", I'm talking about the black community, we contributed to the destruction of our music by accepting the most dumbed-down genre in music history.
Recently,Darlene Love & Merry Clayton were on Tavis Smiley & he asked them about today's "music" & they said what more people should be saying- Darlene talked about how its not real music, no real instruments & how everything is done on the computer now. Then, Merry mentioned how she loved hearing a bass guitar & drums under her....live music.
Meanwhile, we have supposedly educated & sophisicated actors going on about how they love Jay-Z....imbeciles!
The below quotes are from a letter someone wrote to a free weekly local newspaper many years ago...
"There are a lot of silent voices who view hip-hop with a great deal of annoyance & embarrassment. Many cats like myself thought hip-hop would be just a trend, what's tragic is how wrong we were."
So,the public starts to "think" rappers are more cool than people who play instruments.
And what in the hell happened to the kids who spent hours listening to Prince's Sign "O" The Times album in the late 80s, oh, I guess I was the only one, all my so-called peers had already moved on to rap, so when they grew up & had kids, they didn't expose them to examples of musicianship like the record I just mentioned...if they did, then, they would wanna grow up & be multi-instrumentalists, not rappers. And when I say the "the public", I'm talking about the black community, we contributed to the destruction of our music by accepting the most dumbed-down genre in music history.
Recently,Darlene Love & Merry Clayton were on Tavis Smiley & he asked them about today's "music" & they said what more people should be saying- Darlene talked about how its not real music, no real instruments & how everything is done on the computer now. Then, Merry mentioned how she loved hearing a bass guitar & drums under her....live music.
Meanwhile, we have supposedly educated & sophisicated actors going on about how they love Jay-Z....imbeciles!
The below quotes are from a letter someone wrote to a free weekly local newspaper many years ago...
"There are a lot of silent voices who view hip-hop with a great deal of annoyance & embarrassment. Many cats like myself thought hip-hop would be just a trend, what's tragic is how wrong we were."
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