Unpublished Junkyard... The Death of Rock Music and the Hip-Hop Generation

[M Dogg™]

This was a Junkyard article I was working on in 2006... I think. It basically was when everything in Hip-Hop was blowing up, and globally Hip-Hop was unstoppable. I was thinking about it then, and I thought that it would make a good article. I got one paragraph in, and I decided against it because it was going to be a MAJOR project to do it justice, and I ended up doing a Hip-Hop sales article instead, which was going more into the direct I wanted. Well here goes the one paragraph I had... lol.




This is an article I never thought I would do, until I listened to the radio, and then watched all the MTV channels, and I realized, we are officially in the Millennial’s generation. Long gone are the Grunge and post-Grunge bands of Generation X, and now are Nu Medal bands like Linkin Park, and of course, the pop music of this generation is Hip-Hop, or a Hip-Pop fusion. How did this happen, how did a culture that started in the 70’s by Baby Boomers in South Bronx, New York go on to become the dominate pop music in the United States, and spread worldwide to make it’s influence felt. From the rich countries like Germany and Japan, to the 3rd World of Latin America and Africa, Hip-Hop is the music of this generation, from Tego Calderon being the father of Reggeton to 2Pac’s picture being everywhere in the ghettos of Africa, from rich white kids in the United States wearing “bling” to teenagers in Japan banging Jay-Z in their high powered car stereos, Hip-Hop has spread world wide. What’s next, well, who knows, can this tread stay, history says no, how did this start, well, that’s something that can be answered, even if it’s debated.