It's May 11, 2024, 03:25:48 AM
hiphop is generally negative, that's why it's dying a slow painful death. If hiphop were more positive (like every other music genre that has survived since classical periods on) then it would grow and last. Even the blues had hope in it, Hiphop generally is insulting, and degrading to all kinds of shit. It'll never last, 20 years from now, people will look @ hiphop like we look at Disco and alternative music. Dead.
I guess... but if it's all shit, who cares how big it is. The quality of an album today is about half the quality of an album 4 years ago. Compare your average album today with something that came out in 93. It isn't even close. It's dying.
What all this has caused is for artists to focus solely on making money. While this has always been a focus and there's nothing at all wrong with it, when it gets in the way of the art, there's a problem. One of the biggest problems as far as declining record sales is not caused by downloading and bootlegging, but by poor quality product being sold for $21 apiece. When I was in high school, I could buy a tape for $9 but now I have to spend $21 for a cd which may only have 3 good songs on this. Fans know this so they say fuck it and download. Plus, that $9 I spend in high school yielded an album with maybe 3 poor songs and 12 good songs. Now it's the other way around and again, artists, being pressured by the labels, have to make pop music instead of focusing on lyrical and musical creativity.