Hip Pop Music: The De-evolution of Black Music

What do you think about the current state of Hip-Hop and R&B?

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[starkid101]

Nice points but u gotta realize TIMES CHANGE...... and why are you always bringing race in to almost all your videos....?

[TheDreamReborn]

@starkid101 Shouldn't you be spending your time typing me up some more hate mail. I was really enjoying your childish rants.

And if you're too simple to understand why I brought up race in this video, that's a problem only you can deal with.

[nykel007]

totally agree with you man, my soca music going down the drain.

this dancehall influence first started with the group ryzion i think, not quit sure. first time i heard them i was like, "what the hell is this?!?" i couldn't understand one single word they were saying. then came people like dog e slaughter, bungi, maximas dan and the rest. i was very disappointed where soca was heading.

[TheDreamReborn]

@nykel007 I assumed it started with Bunji. I lost faith in Soca a long time ago. I'm more of a calypso person, and even that is going down the drain. It just isn't political enough anymore. the creativity is dead.

[MooPotPie]

A racist is a person who believes he or she is of a different "race" from any other human on the planet.

[TheCionTheory]

Adding my thoughts here..I'm a musician myself, and I love all types of music-which has been a contribution from ALL HUMAN BEINGS on this Earth. Ask yourself this question...."Who owns Sound?"~ answer NO ONE. Each human being has had influences from the previous generation~if we want to talk about MUSIC-lets do so accurately~we all share music together. To try and make any particular person or group "own" music is flawed in my opinion....give props to the innovators~but let us share the joy as 1

[superbro75]

are real voices gets swept under the rug, and as long as are music is being presented like a minstrel show,its gonna be this way,as long as we sound uneducated in our music,thats comforting to white america,because there no real threat,when you sing and rap about foolishness,but an artist with real integrity and wisdom is a threat,because he brings are real experience to the world like Marvin Gaye did,he had black and white fans,but didnt sell out.We need to step our game up.

[superbro75]

support to keep the music tight.The Record Labels know what there doing,real soul artist dont get the recognition they deserve because there not talking about bullshit I remember when music was fun,funky,and educational are black music used to set the tone of how most of us carried ourselves,because it was the only voice we had in the media,if we used todays black music the same way it was used 40 years ago,there would be more racial harmony in this 2011 time,but we have to fake the message,so

[superbro75]

some of the artist of years past seem very bitter about the success of some of are new artist,hip hop and R&B,and I understand alot of the integrity and pride is gone,but instead of being upset,are elders need to stay in the music industry to help some of the younger artist walk the path instead of judge them, thats why are generation lost its soul,because the fore fathers worked so hard in racist time,some got old and some got burnt out and the never reached out to the new artist to give some

[superbro75]

sacred,and as black people,we need to stop fakin the funk,we grew up on much better music than we make today,and thats taking a step backwards,we sold our souls to the dollars bill,and dollar bills didnt make our music better,it made it worse,and what most people dont know, is that underground black music is what created the platform for most of these artist to get on,and then they blow up and they get watered down for white america,chasing the almighty dollar,the music ends up suffering.

[superbro75]

That's the problem with white america,they used the media to learn about are culture,they dont care about was really going on in the black community,they use all these sell out artist that he mentioned above,to create a fake imaginative relationship with black people,when most white never been to the ghetto,so they use radio,video,and media to vicariously have a relationship with black people,which is so fake,they can never relate to our real issues,and thats why we need to keep black music

[superbro75]

This man is 1,000% right,and whoever keeps questioning why he brings up race means you really dont know shit about our culture or black people,every time we stand up for our culture,someone white tries to generalize our situation by saying something about are struggle that they do not live,and because they throw these watered down hip hop and r&b artist in our faces,you think today's garbage black mainstream music give you the right to question a real brotha's opinion about are own culture?

[only1realmackenzie]

if we are held to that high standard of music,we need to take full responsiblity for that and keep are music fresh,new, hot,idealistic,stylish and just plain ole grooved out,and put are music back in our communities,everybody loves hip hop and r&b,but didnt struggle with us to help us create it

[only1realmackenzie]

such as Rhianna, Usher etc..its sound like throwback club music from the 90's like Robin S or Haddaway,we are the only culture in music that has been set to a higher standard meaning,if a black band comes out today with a retro funk sound it considered old school,and the probably wont blow up,Why?because it been done,if a white group imitates that same group,they stand to make millions,although there sound is outdated,because it s new to white america,its not fair how they do us,so