buy or sell: regarding hip hop’s evolution in the recent and coming years?
Question by thumb me down, you know you wanna: buy or sell: regarding hip hop’s evolution in the recent and coming years?
In 1986 the MPC was invented.
it changed hip hop
some would say it created hip hop.
MIDI, which exploded in the 90’s allowed new people to make hip hop. with MIDI artist no longer had to have the time and dedication it takes to play instrements, through MIDI, the regular old joe/jane could realize his/her musical ideas into a recording and not be discouraged by not knowing how to play drums, guitar, bass ect.
throughout hip hops very very young and short history, advancement on a technological level has always been a catalyst in hip hop’s evolution, development, and growth.
hip hop is not scared to embrace new technology and use it to advance and progress it’s music.
in 1995, a rack mounted compressor costed 1000$ or more
now in 2010 you can download compressors for free off the internet and use it on as many things as you want:
advancements like these have given birth to the low budget (but highly inpired and driven) producer.
in 2010 you can download, for free, all the tools you need to make CD quality tracks (16bit/44.1kbs sample rate)
kids in dorm rooms can make tracks on their bunk bed with headphones on, that back in early 90’s would take rooms full of hardware reel to reel, rack mounts, and most of all $ $ $ $ to create the same quality.
right now is very hard and discouraging to try and promote your self. But everywhere you go as far as the eye can see, people are makin tracks. wether it in their basement, over the internet emailing verses to each other to edit, at make shift home studio’s or whatever.
many of us can identify imediately ten rappers that we don’t think should be on the radio. but they are. and equally i bet many of us can identify imediately someone we know in person that makes dope trax or spits dope rymes.
BUY OR SELL: in coming years, larger than life artists and “dumbed downlyrics” will end up taking a back seat to the low budget (but deeply inpired and driven) producers who promote themselves on soundclick, itunes, myspace, you tube and other sites and companies that facilitate the distribution of “unsigned artists”
BONUS: in your sources leave a link to one of your own dope trax
@frumdame, very true very true.
” aspiring to be the top ten rappers we don’t think should be on the radio”
very true. long awaited solutions give birth to new problems. ineresting standpoint, i guess this isn’t really good for a buy/sell format. i guess i just wanted to open up a discussion. thank you for your post
Best answer:
Answer by Frumdamentalz
This was an interesting read, and I agree about the evolution of it, but I’m gonna sell the buy or sell part of the Q. For as many great unsigned artists out there who are deeply inspired and driven to make quality music, there are just as many people out there aspiring to become one of the “ten rappers that we don’t think should be on the radio.” And the fact that it has become easier for people with no talent to make records makes me think mainstream rap music will not only continue to get worse, but sadly, it will continue to be the poor representation of an entire culture. I give the artists who promote themselves on soundclick, itunes, etc. a lot of credit for trying to get a name, but unless they’re getting radioplay, they’re never gonna sell as many records as the rappers in the garbage rotation that’s being played on MTV, BET, etc., who are being funded by major labels. And you can blame whoever you want, but I think it comes down to the fact that most so called Hip Hop fans prefer being spoon fed their music by radio and TV instead of digging for dope music, and until that changes, larger than life artists with dumbed down lyrics won’t take a backseat to anything.
EDIT: Thanks a lot, I appreciate that. Thanks for posting the Q. This is the most interesting Q I’ve seen in a long time, and I definitely get what you’re saying. I just don’t have much faith in the majority, and I think that’s what it comes down to, the average Hip Hop fan. And it’s not like it was back in the day where you had some variety on the radio and TV. Nowadays, it’s pretty much the same gimmicky sh*t all day every day, and it’s gotten to the point where I think it’s influencing this generation’s taste in music. But at the same time, I know that there’s plenty of people out there, including myself, who love digging for a quality record. I just don’t know if there’s enough of us out there to eventually become the majority.
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