Posted by: wktd | March 18th, 2010 |
Let me start off by saying PLEASE don't call me racist, or generalizing and just answer the question.
I'm black two of my favourite rappers were busta rhymes and ludacris... however as these guys are getting older, there's nothing to really replace them.
All the more recent rappers rap about the same thing, to almost the same beat and the same music videos...
So.. sometime when i was 10-11, i got into red hot chili peppers ( my brother bought the californication album ), and then there was linkin park, I had the first 2 albums. Then there is coldplay.
My question is, why have mainstream black media, and quite frankly a lot of my friends too, given up on the good music that blacks used to make.
What happened to Ray Charles, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and I dare say.. Michael Jackson (pedophile or not, the guy DID make good music ).
All I can afford is an acoustic Guitar.
So it really frustrates me to see so many of my ( more affluent ) friends, buying expensive keyboards, going to music school, learning scales and music theory....
and then try to make rap beats !!!!
I think that we as a people, are trying to hard to identify ourself, and so too often get stuck in stereotypes.
The three bands I mention above:
Linkin Park
RHCP
&
Coldplay
All play very different styles of music, yet no one questions their "whiteness"
So why does all mainstream, modern black music HAVE to be hip hop ?
why can't we do something different ?
YES I know I am generalizing, but this is pretty damn close to the truth.
In response to these types of questions, people often mention, some underground jazz artists, or black rockers who you NEVER see on tv.
But that's my point, the media only show a narrow spectrum of our musical capabilities.
I mean geez, there is so much MORE we can do, than make rap beats !!!!
I wish kids interested in music would stop restricting themselves to what "fits" with them - thinking that all black children who have had it tough can only grow up to rap about being a black kid who had it tough. Thinking that all female singers can only sing about falling in love.
The assigned stereotypes of today's music world are so very specific that I don't think there's any way to break them. Gone are the days of Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, and Ray Charles.
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