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>In the 1970s
...an underground urban movement known as "hip hop" began to develop in the South Bronx in New York City. It focused on Jamaican emceeing (or MCing) over "breakbeats", house parties and neighbourhood block party events, held outdoors, a powerful medium for protesting the impact of legal institutions on minorities, particularly police and prisons.
>in the 1980s
hip hop was further defined in 1982, when Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force released the electro-funk track "Planet Rock". Instead of simply rapping over disco beats, Bambaataa with producer Arthur Baker created an electronic sound, taking advantage of the rapidly improving drum machine Roland TR-808 synthesizer technology. Planet Rock is widely regarded as a turning point; fusing electro with hip hop, was "like a light being switched on," resulting in a new genre
>in the 1990s
...with the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny. Gangsta rap also played an important part in hip hop becoming a mainstream commodity. Meanwhile turntablism and trip hop along with instrumental hip hop became their own independent art movements.
>in the 2000s
...the years from 2001 to 2006 were defined by collaborations against type and regional stars finally reaching the mainstream. Kanye West led the charge, rapping about both social issues and material success with a flow that redeemed the oft-maligned Mason Betha, and doing so with the co-sign of Jay-Z and Common. It’s easy to see his wide range of customers and collaborators as a result of his hunger
>in the 2010s
...literal retards started mumbling over EDM loops and white Americans gobbled it up in guilt
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>>74038033
>...literal retards started mumbling over EDM loops and white Americans gobbled it up in guilt
you just said it
WHITE AMERICANS got more involved
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>>74038033
>...literal retards started mumbling over EDM loops and white Americans gobbled it up in guilt
Cherry picking at it's finest.
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>>74038033
The same thing that happened to damn near every other genre in music.
Probably that the internet has so fractured both popular music and poisoned underground sub-scenes and genres, by destroying the listener base of the former and making it that much easier for the latter to find their 15 minutes of fame.
So popular music is going down the toilet by chasing the ever lower lowest common denominator that still listens to radio/buys albums/pays for tidal, Apple music, etc or has the best corporate tie-ins, while the smaller, underground/obscure scenes and genres are all sanitizing and homogenizing their sounds in the hopes that they, too, can get a song into a commercial/memed on Twitter/Reddit/onto a late-night talk show, or make it into the smaller stages at yet another unimaginative, redundant music festival.
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>>74038100
XXL
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it's easy to blame it on whit Americans because it is largely their fault but it's just American culture as a whole to appropriate and popularize bastardizations
the flip side is that it causes younger generations to innovate so its not all too bad
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>>74038374
>lil peep is innovative
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>>74038033
>white people like rap because of white guilt
Why do people keep repeating this lie?
There are many styles of rap. Why are you focusing on the worst of it?
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http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1776&context=etd
This is a good start if you have enough autism to read some guy's thesis. I swear down it's not mine, I think I found it in a thread a few months ago
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>>74038033
How did you jump from Afrika Bambaata to "after gangster rap" in 3 sentences?
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