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if you think about it, hip hop is probably going to be the last frontier as far as music goes....I don't think we'll live enough to see Blacks create another genre of music. We created blues, then jazz, then Rock N Roll, R & B, Funk, and then Hip Hop.....my brain can't even fathom there's another step in musical evolution......This is an older article, but I like to repost to let everyone know that we, the creators of Hip Hop impact everything we do.
Science says hip-hop is the pinnacle of American music
They studied 17,000 songs for this.
But that's how it always is. Do you think the average person during the Blues era envisioned R&B or Funk? In the present, the new genres come to fruition as a gradient rather than an instant color shift. It'll also be done by visionaries who can see and craft that future sound, the average person will not be aware of the new genre until it's fully created and labeled.
This is common. It’s like could you ever imagine the iPhone in the era of Blackberry? It was just common knowledge that phones needed every button possible on it and that touch screens required a stylus. You had to be a radical thinker to envision anything outside of that.
I think the cool thing about Rap is the technical prowess required to do it well. Think about it, you need multiple verses at 16 bars and each bar has to rhyme and you can’t repeat verses and if people find out someone else wrote the verse you are ostracized.This is an older article, but I like to repost to let everyone know that we, the creators of Hip Hop impact everything we do.
Science says hip-hop is the pinnacle of American music
They studied 17,000 songs for this.
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