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Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
Fri May 2, 2014, 06:08 PM May 2014

"Hip-hop is drifting toward 'oblivion'"

More: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27131801

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"Hip-hop has taken over black music," writes Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, drummer for The Roots and band leader for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

The music's success, Thompson argues, isn't necessarily a good thing.

"Maybe domination isn't quite a victory," he writes for Vulture. "Maybe everpresence isn't quite a virtue."
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"Hip-hop is drifting toward 'oblivion'" (Original Post) Jamaal510 May 2014 OP
I saw on the Colbert Report last night there is upaloopa May 2014 #1
As it should as an orginal lover of old school hip hop this right here that they put is mess! trublu992 May 2014 #2
Black music has always come up with something so different Warpy May 2014 #3

Warpy

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3. Black music has always come up with something so different
Fri May 2, 2014, 07:16 PM
May 2014

that no one has ever thought of it before. I hope the next wave starts to break before I kick the bucket, I really want to know what will come out of places like Detroit.

There is a group of people somewhere kicking around musical ideas in an old storefront or garage that will stand the whole music industry on its head again.

Parents who came of age on rap will yell at their kids to turn that damned noise down. The kids, however, will know. They always do.

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