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how will hip-hop be percieved in 20 years ?
Rampant:
music of the past
Low Key:
More importantly, what will our kids be listening to? The mainstream buyers back in the late 80s and early 90s were kids looking to rebel against their parents. It's a scary thought because rap can be one of the most degrading and violent artforms at times.
But it's really hard to tell what hip hop will be like in 20 years or how it the music released now will be precieved then. Just ask the people that remeber 25 years ago when hip hop first started. They'll tell you the artform lost it's way and became watered down mush. And you can tell already that the substance is leaving hip hop more and more. But what really makes a genre is the politics surrounding it. In the 50s, WWII ended and music turned lighter because it was happy times. In the 60s and 70s, Vietnam created a whole new type of music about "expanding ones mind". In the 80s, you had metal, hair, and grunge rockers that wanted to rebel against the system that Regan built. Same with the early 90s. Now, because of the stock market boom (and decline), we are kind of stuck in a segue of materalistic values and other such meaningless things. But it's really hard to say. As long as there is still respect for the music, like I respect all the music that came before my era, that's all that really matters. And there are tons of us that share the knowledge on these forums, so I doubt the spirit will ever die out in my lifetime.
realz:
da next generation of music will be electronic n techno.....bottom line
Diabolical:
Techno has had its day.
Acgrundy:
hip hops dead to me, and just gets worse and worse each year. 20 years it won't be around.
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