Last song on the radio that had an actual MESSAGE?
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BAMBINO
100% pure uncut fukkery
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"
At least a lot of these songs had soul.
Well, let's talk about that for a minute...
R&B of the 1980s and "soul" is a touchy subject. I guess in hindsight it's easy to say that yes, they did indeed have soul. But to the generation prior, R&B in the 80s was soulless as fukk. Bands and live instruments were being phased out, gritty singing and dark emotion was almost nonexistent on the radio. People who came up off late-60s/70s soul were knocking the fukk out of the drum machine generation.
You know how nikkas love to throw around that talk of "techno" beats, i.e. anything made out of keyboard/plug-in sounds instead of soul samples? Well, '80s R&B was the equivalent of that to the classic soul generation. It was seen as polished, synthesized, computerized garbage that was an insult to the "real" music of the past. Sound familiar?
Hindsight can be a bytch.
Well, let's talk about that for a minute...
R&B of the 1980s and "soul" is a touchy subject. I guess in hindsight it's easy to say that yes, they did indeed have soul. But to the generation prior, R&B in the 80s was soulless as fukk. Bands and live instruments were being phased out, gritty singing and dark emotion was almost nonexistent on the radio. People who came up off late-60s/70s soul were knocking the fukk out of the drum machine generation.
You know how nikkas love to throw around that talk of "techno" beats, i.e. anything made out of keyboard/plug-in sounds instead of soul samples? Well, '80s R&B was the equivalent of that to the classic soul generation. It was seen as polished, synthesized, computerized garbage that was an insult to the "real" music of the past. Sound familiar?
Hindsight can be a bytch.
This nikka is droppin' some straight unbiased TRUTH...
BAMBINO
100% pure uncut fukkery
Well, let's talk about that for a minute...
R&B of the 1980s and "soul" is a touchy subject. I guess in hindsight it's easy to say that yes, they did indeed have soul. But to the generation prior, R&B in the 80s was soulless as fukk. Bands and live instruments were being phased out, gritty singing and dark emotion was almost nonexistent on the radio. People who came up off late-60s/70s soul were knocking the fukk out of the drum machine generation.
You know how nikkas love to throw around that talk of "techno" beats, i.e. anything made out of keyboard/plug-in sounds instead of soul samples? Well, '80s R&B was the equivalent of that to the classic soul generation. It was seen as polished, synthesized, computerized garbage that was an insult to the "real" music of the past. Sound familiar?
Hindsight can be a bytch.
MBwithadream
All Star
Don't hear these down here.
MBwithadream
All Star
& who in the blue hell is French Montana?
Need to a have a thread on dumb street names that will never stick in the Hip hop community.
rapdonttweet
Pro
lol at complaining about the radio but still listening to it. What is wrong with this picture? I can't answer the question because I have no clue what's popular now.
Come to think of it I don't even remember hearing many rap songs on the radio in the 90s that had a message either.
Come to think of it I don't even remember hearing many rap songs on the radio in the 90s that had a message either.
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How U Luv That???
Whoever said Billie Jean aint have a message is a fukkin moron.
Nas' Daughters....but tht nikka is irrelevant so it hardly gets any spins
stfu..
but yeah, Im pissed Black Radio didnt embrace Daughters. Its just crazy
Cause black radio ain't black radio... it's music by black people played by black personalities with black program directors... that are told what to play by Clear Channel and/or Radio One... that have relationships with advertisers and record labels to uphold. Whatever ain't in line with what they think the demographic wants to hear or doesn't go along with their formula... little to no play.