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I consider it modern black folk music.
It is interesting music if one understand the lyrics. Much talk of race, struggle, power, weapons, possessions, money, status, inability to stand down when confronted,etc. Ideal music for a youth wanting to rebel against the Establishment. Only this time it is 9mms and ******* vs. Make Peace, Love and end War.
Very funny compared to the folk music of my youth which was Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, etc. well, you see the difference there between Rocky Mountain High and It's All About the Benjamins.
Rock has not faded away - unless your definition of rock is uber-specific to a genre within the larger of umbrella of "rock-&-roll". I play in a cover band that does classic rock to alternative and I play in an all-original band that is kind of a Cow-punk/Rockabilly/Garage Rock mix. Rock is alive and well.
Now, what is Cow-punk?? I've heard of Punk-Rocker..........
I think I'm showing my age,......... this girl is just plain "Rock" what they now call Classic!!
Rock has not gone anywhere! It is still alive and well.
But it's faded in popularity. 20-45 years ago the top rock bands were household names that just about all Americans were familiar with. Today there are many rock bands that are popular with rock fans that are basically unknown outside of the rock subculture.
This applies to hip hop too, especially the acts that don't crossover to the pop charts. Musical tastes are more splintered and fragmented than ever. Rock isn't dead, hip hop isn't dead, neither will die anytime soon but no type of music is hitting the critical mass that it once did.
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......... this girl is just plain "Rock" what they now call Classic!!
