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At my SC high school? People admitted to listening to grunge, alternative or country.
Don't get me wrong, everyone knew the new jack songs. But they didn't call it their fave music. The white people who did were called the w-word.
Yeah, maybe being in California living near the Bay Area, would've influenced that. I remember kids would record tapes off of KMEL which was starting to be a big deal at that point as one of the first big rap stations in the area... In general I think being younger kids we were more open to new sounds, even more so than my cool older cousins who all lived in the city or East Bay. 1991 and 1992 were really the years that I remember it becoming really big amongst my age group... Ice Cube and the Geto Boys were huge in that period--along with early Too Short--and then there were the East Coast groups like Das EFX that were big. By the time I started high school, rap music was the dominant music in terms of most cliques(outside of the stoner rock kids).
Grunge and alternative and some heavy metal was popular as well, but the cool kids and most of the good looking girls all listened to rap and r'n'b. For the 90s however, I didn't know anyone who listened to country music until years later when I moved to Oregon in 1999. I thought it was weird when a bunch of people I knew actually grew up hearing and knew the words to Garth Brooks songs... That struck me as much different from what I heard growing up. I didn't realize how big country music was in much of the country during the early 90s--even my relatives in the Central Valley wouldn't listen to country.
At my high school no self respecting white preppy would claim to listen to it. It was too "low class." Or you know, for black people.
During that time, marching bands at predominately would improvise Dre day to play as a hype song at football games. When my schools band did the band director (middle aged black man) would shush the band, and the offending student would get a warning.
I came back to the bay for college, and obviously most of the native Californians listened to hip hop.
Ah you know what? You're right. I forgot. Used to be you could only see a hip-hop video when they played it on Yo MTV raps or Video Music Box if you were in the NYC metro area.
The quality of the music has seriously declined with a few exceptions. I was listening to an old school music channel last night and I heard Brand Nubian's Slow Down. DH and I were like listen to the lyrics and compare that to any of the trash Lil Wayne puts out today.
Well I guess it's like Rock n Roll...used to also be considered low class and only for black people.
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Originally Posted by Supine
I think what she meant was that even whites and other races, under age 25, mainly are into Hip Hop.
I'm Gen X too, but, as a teen in the mid to late 80s, most the white kids were listening the Heavy Metal and made fun of Hip Hop. Back then it was mainly blacks and Puerto Ricans into Hip Hop.
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