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Thread ID: 10629 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-10-20
2003-10-20 18:46 | User Profile
They said rock 'n' roll would die. It didn't.
Those same cultural coroners have tried to issue premature death certificates for rap and hip-hop.
But their demise is also unlikely. Hip-hop's popularity hit an apex last week when every song on Billboard magazine's Top 10 hit list was by an African-American artist, a first in the magazine's 50-year history.
More than 84 million rap and hip-hop records were sold last year alone, according to a report by Interep, an independent advertising, sales and marketing company that focuses on radio. The report also says hip-hop is the fastest-growing radio format; it's played on more than 150 stations.
"This is a validation of what we've been championing for years," says Jerry Barrow, features editor for The Source, a national magazine devoted to rap and hip-hop that issued its awards Monday night. "It's way more than a fad. ... It's not going away."
Beyond the Billboard Top 10, which is filled with tracks by Beyonce, Nelly, P. Diddy, Chingy, Pharrell, 50 Cent and Black Eyed Peas, hip-hop has extended its reach smack into the middle of mainstream America. Major corporations are using the music to tout everything from new cars to fashions to burgers and soft drinks.
"You cannot turn on the TV without seeing some influence of hip-hop being shown by the media for marketing or advertising purposes," says Melcom Copeland, president of buyhiphop.com, a Delaware-based business consulting firm that caters to hip-hop artists and retailers.
"In the past, the decision-makers of corporate America didn't understand the culture," Copeland says. "Why would they use this seemingly negative genre to promote their products? That's all changed. Now, everyone wants a piece of the action."
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2003-10-20 21:41 | User Profile
The critics of hip-hop from black writers means :dung: to record company executives, the popular culture creators, and the hip-hop artists themselves. Hip-hop brings in $$$$, a great portion of that from white buyers, and that is the only thing that matters.
2003-10-20 22:05 | User Profile
The cattle will listen to the news they are given, and will buy the music that's promoted on televitz, no matter how hideous and dumb it is. [c]rap will die the moment the televitz zhids stop promoting it everywhere.
2003-10-20 22:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]The cattle will listen to the news they are given.[/QUOTE] It.s dead, it's over. I''m willing to bet that there is less than 5% of the population that even knows who Dostoevsky is anymore. It is the golden age of corruption, not just materially, but spiritually as well. It's going to get alot worse before it it gets better.
2003-10-20 23:33 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]The cattle will listen to the news they are given, and will buy the music that's promoted on televitz, no matter how hideous and dumb it is. [c]rap will die the moment the televitz zhids stop promoting it everywhere.[/QUOTE]
Yes and only to be replaced by an even more hideous form of crap music. This is direct result of the celebration of negreo music that began in at least the 1950's, but even before that in the 1920's with Duke Ellington and such.
2003-10-21 09:47 | User Profile
The only way to get rid of this plague of moronic, gold-toothed, crotch-grabbing gutter monkeys is to get rid of the jew filth that are responsible for inflicting them on us.