Quote Originally Posted by Big Calhoun
This is the crux of the issue. Hip hop and rap have always been about one thing, responding to the masses. The songs that are getting the most air play now are what the primary listeners want to hear and what's important to them...materialistic BS. For rap and hip hop to change, the culture that listens to the music has to change.
Hip Hop & Rap wasn't just responding to the masses, it was more of a direction for the masses too. Public Enemy: Don't Believe The Hype... People followed the music not the music followed the people, gee or was it bi-directional? Old skool Hip Hip & Rap is like soul music with spice, even down to many of the beats. Today Hip Hop is responding to the masses in a way that indicates the masses don't know what the hell they want so rappers try and sell an album any which way they can. Sex sells so thas a start! Listeners of legal radio broadcasts listen to what sells and what has been sold, and thas as far as their control extends. The diameter of their listening experience equates to what has been sold in particular record shops. The availabe artists in mainstream record outlets are restricted by the music industry on the whole. You can guarantee that by design, bull shit will be all over the mainstream charts because the restrictions apply before an artist is even signed to a label. The stuff that some of us listen to which we think is important to us is utter crap. If a materialistic lifestyle is what many desire, and musical artists are playing up to peoples desires and advertising it in their music, then like a vicious circle the culture of the listener will not change until they read this thread.

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