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And just like great rock and roll stars like Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Eric Clapton or John Lennon will be lionized 100 years from now, so will RUN-DMC.
As a former DJ I've learned to like and appreciate all styles of music. The only music that I really don't have an ear for (with the exception of a few songs) is country. As favorites I lean towards old school metal from thrash metal (Metallica, Slayer, Pantera...ect..) to hair band (Skid Row, Warrant, Poison), and hip hop, though I'm not a fan of a lot of the newer stuff. I guess I'm showing my age as well, but also when the club that I worked at a few years ago shut down, I didn't stay up as much with the current hip hop. So I guess with the exception of a few things post 2008 I've become less of a fan of the current hip hop. I'll take the 90's hip hop any day over the current stuff. I also like classic rock like Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Aerosmith... ect... Hey, I guess I love all music! Nothing wrong with that!
Hip hop is the dominant music of the culture nowadays. It aint going anywhere. Even music that you don't think of as being hip hop is still hip hop or at a minimum, hip hop influenced.
Hip hop was shot out of the same cannon that every other popular musical form came out of. Rock isn't dead either...and it never will be.
And just like great rock and roll stars like Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Eric Clapton or John Lennon will be lionized 100 years from now, so will RUN-DMC.
Deal with it.
Twenty years ago my manager at work asked me if Hip-Hop was going to last I told him I really didn't know. He said he didn't think so. Twenty years later we've got have major Hip Hop artist and producers worth over $100 million dollars. I smile every time think about the conversation.
The WORST person to ask "If something will last" is somebody that doesn't understand the culture or people that create the music.
Hip Hop will evolve it's different now than it was 10 years ago and ten years from now it will be different than it is today.
Rock & Roll has not faded away & neither will Hip Hop! It's been around since the late 1970s and is a true form of music!
no1brownsfan? I think we can all agree how much "country" music sucks!
Careful now... 'country' is a pretty huge genre to peg. I myself am a bluegrass mandolin player so I have a certain affinity for twangy acoustic numbers... But if you're talking about top 40 country then yes, I agree the vast majority is crap.
And just like great rock and roll stars like Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Eric Clapton or John Lennon will be lionized 100 years from now, so will RUN-DMC.
I seriously doubt it.
Doubt anything you want. No form of popular music has ever disappeared. They're all still here, even if in a diminished state. And they'll always be here. Hip hop, much to YOUR chagrin, will be no different.
If you can't deal with that little factoid, too bad. I can't help you.
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Nothing wrong with that!
