Not saying there isn't good stuff out there or everything is "trash" (though I am biased to 90s hip hop & R&B since that is when I came of age). But seriously, my kids are starting to get into music and what is primarily out there is rap and pop music. Which is a variation of what was out when I was growing up. It's different in that my parents listened to different genres of music than me (Motown, 70s R&B/Funk) and my grandparents listened to different genres of music than them (blues, big band jazz/swing, gospel) and my great grandparents were straight old Negro Spirituals. Every generation couldn't understand how the newer generation could listen to that new "crap" as each generation called it.
Basically Black people innovated a whole new genre of music, not just new faces, once every 20-30 years in the 20th century. That's not even counting genres that cribbed Black music styles like Rock & Roll and modern pop/dance music. Hip hop rules the world now, which is cool in a way, but I am worried about there being no progress. Maybe the huge inflow of money has spoiled people. My pops theory is that now Black folks are getting money on the producing side, unlike when he was a kid, they are getting lazy and happy to push trash that sells. When Black artists were getting shafted, innovation was basically the only way to try to get ahead.
But maybe I'm just getting old.
