SummerNights
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Rolling in the Deep
Last song on the radio that had an actual MESSAGE?
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Freedom Aint Free
SummerNights
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never heard freeday ain't free nor daughters on the radio
I would hope NY would play Nas... never heard that song played anywhere else though...
JoelB
All Praise To TMH
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Pop music is not where children should be getting their "messages" in the first place..people listen to the radio to be entertained...in the modern era of popular music (60's onward), I'd venture to say that something approaching 90% of all popular songs in radio rotation have been either fairly shallow tracks about relationships (sappy love songs, or ballads, tales of love gone bad, i'm gonna make sweet love to you woman blah blah blah) or dance/party music...I guarantee you any song you have in your head as an example of how prevalent "message" music was on the radio in eras previous are cherry picked classics that were as rare as Nas' Daughters...lost in a sea of "baby baby" or "get down and boogie" songs from back in the day
Like here's a list of songs that were popping some random week like 30 years ago
Anyone want to point the abundance of songs with a "message"
This.
First off the thread should have ended after my post (second post). Secondly I listen to the radio to be entertained, I dont seek to gain any "message" through music. Give me a good instrumental backing, a nice flow, nice hook, and maybe some
lyrics/bars and Im good to go. 
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
Ambition by Wale is a decent one....
"not afraid" 
contnet is about overcoming drug addiction
contnet is about overcoming drug addiction
Day_Walker
All Star
Hip hop has been better in the last 2 years than it has been in the last 6 years or so (and this is coming from a 90's hip hop fan).hip hop any time before 2009 >>>>>
they actually used to play HIP-HOP.. on the radio
nw on the "HIP-HOP" station we got katy perry.. justin beiber etc.... on the fukkIN HIP-HOP STATION....
the "hip-hop" they play now isits not even hip-hop.. its rnb/pop.. every "rap" song has a RnB hook EVERYONE!>..
I wanna know what year nikkas lived in where music with a message was played regularly on the radio.
Because I can confidently say that there hasn't been A year of my life where I turned on the radio and heard an abundance of "message music", or at least what is being described as "message music" in this thread. And for every one of those that DID get played, there were still about 20 other songs that were about the same topics on radio today.
All music has a message, in one way or another. Whether it's a message of substance is up to you.
Because I can confidently say that there hasn't been A year of my life where I turned on the radio and heard an abundance of "message music", or at least what is being described as "message music" in this thread. And for every one of those that DID get played, there were still about 20 other songs that were about the same topics on radio today.
All music has a message, in one way or another. Whether it's a message of substance is up to you.