serious question: when and where did house music stop being cool amongst black Americans?

[Unknown Poster]

Was it in the 90s?
Was it in the 00s?
Let me put this is context.
I got into house music when I was 5 in 1990 from the TMNT original motion picture soundtrack.

The period between 88-92 was emphasized by new jack swing, the running man, the afrocentricity movement, african medallions, ankh necklaces, dashikis, jordans, black bart simpson t shirts, R&B/UK Soul, cross colours, shows like A Different World, Fresh Prince, Family Matters, and The Cosby Show being on the air, HBCUs were being represented and more black people were going to college.

Then something happened.

I dont know if it was the gangsta rap movement that made house too "unmascline" and "too gay" for black men to fukk with....
Or if it was the fact house & techno were still very regional in NYC, NJ, Chicago, Detroit back then.
Or that before the internet we didnt even know what mosr of those producers who's records were selling overseas looked like.
Somehow the blackness got removed.

 

[DoomzdayzV]

u talkin about that Technotronic cut with the ninja turtles fighting in the theater and shyt? what was that song called again? That music seems so corny today.

 

[NSSVO]

I listen to that shyt all day. It's not masculine enough for a lot of people. They've been programmed their music has to be overly aggressive.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Lets be frank
For as much as I loved and still love Daft Punk
They became famous by putting a white face on black music when Homework came out in 1996.

 

[BigMan]

I'm from Jersey so never

 

[O.T.I.S.]

I barely even know what that it is

We didn't listen to that growing up

 

[Unknown Poster]

u talkin about that Technotronic cut with the ninja turtles fighting in the theater and shyt? what was that song called again? That music seems so corny today.

I still love this song.

 

[315]

There were some mainstream hits that came out that were corny as shyt and might have had a hand in people
leaving it alone or not giving it a shot in the first place

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Was it in the 90s?
Was it in the 00s?
Let me put this is context.
I got into house music when I was 5 in 1990 from the TMNT original motion picture soundtrack.

The period between 88-92 was emphasized by new jack swing, the running man, the afrocentricity movement, african medallions, ankh necklaces, dashikis, jordans, black bart simpson t shirts, R&B/UK Soul, cross colours, shows like A Different World, Fresh Prince, Family Matters, and The Cosby Show being on the air, HBCUs were being represented and more black people were going to college.

Then something happened.

I dont know if it was the gangsta rap movement that made house too "unmascline" and "too gay" for black men to fukk with....
Or if it was the fact house & techno were still very regional in NYC, NJ, Chicago, Detroit back then.
Or that before the internet we didnt even know what mosr of those producers who's records were selling overseas looked like.
Somehow the blackness got removed.

Come to Detroit, we still thrive off that shyt. We grew up on it. Movement/DEMF is this weekend. I cant fukking wait. Its usually Lit. I met Method Man two years ago at it.


But Rap's hyper-masculinity has a part in it yes.

 

[King Jove]

hip-hop and r&b took over.

it didn't help that the gays basically adapted it to where it unofficially because THE genre of gay people.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Was it in the 90s?
Was it in the 00s?
Let me put this is context.
I got into house music when I was 5 in 1990 from the TMNT original motion picture soundtrack.

The period between 88-92 was emphasized by new jack swing, the running man, the afrocentricity movement, african medallions, ankh necklaces, dashikis, jordans, black bart simpson t shirts, R&B/UK Soul, cross colours, shows like A Different World, Fresh Prince, Family Matters, and The Cosby Show being on the air, HBCUs were being represented and more black people were going to college.

Then something happened.

I dont know if it was the gangsta rap movement that made house too "unmascline" and "too gay" for black men to fukk with....
Or if it was the fact house & techno were still very regional in NYC, NJ, Chicago, Detroit back then.
Or that before the internet we didnt even know what mosr of those producers who's records were selling overseas looked like.
Somehow the blackness got removed.

if you look at what happened between BA/AA's and rock and roll,
therein lies your answer

 

[Unknown Poster]

I listen to that shyt all day. It's not masculine enough for a lot of people. They've been programmed their music has to be overly aggressive.

Seriously.

Its like when people think of house music they think of background music on shows like RuPaul's drag race or something.

 

[NSSVO]

Craziest thing, I never listened to house at all growing up. Pops and moms had the oldies, my brother was a producer and pianist, and the Mexican family down the block listened to rock and rap. I got into house when I was out in Europe. First it was that Melbourne Bounce and Electro-House shyt. Then I kept exploring, and got to regular house and deep house. Real chill and cool shyt.

 

[MoroccanBoy]

Uk garage>>>>>>>>

 

[WaveGang]

Uk garage>>>>>>>>

Love the music hate the raves