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

[Unknown Poster]

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.

Well i mean house dis start amongst the gay black community in Chicago (after disco) thats a fact that cant be disputed.
So when did house start being coopted as straight white people music?

 

[NSSVO]

Seriously.

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

Yeah because they don't leave their comfort zone, and only go by what is on TV. House is fukking ill to me, and I listen to it more than hip-hop now. I am getting older, and some days driving to and from work I can't listen to a breh talking about killing folks. Or whatever the new drug craze is.

 

[King Jove]

So when did house start being coopted as straight white people music?

when europe discovered house and european dj's started playing house and it got rebranded as affluent sophisticated fashionable stylish white people music.

seemed like every swanky bougie white people club embraced house music in the 90's / early 2000's.

 

[Poitier]

Rap is literally techno/house with vocals layered over it....what are you talking about?

 

[Unknown Poster]

Yep.

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

Same with the blues & jazz.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Uk garage>>>>>>>>

which is a sub genre of HOUSE

 

[Spotja]

Come to South Africa. House is bigger than hip-hop and r&b combined. Them US and European DJs are good here.

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

We still fukk with it here

 

[MoroccanBoy]

which is a sub genre of HOUSE

I dont know what house music is. All I know is that I grew up on uk garage and watched grime come out of it.

 

[Unknown Poster]

when europe discovered house and european dj's started playing house and it got rebranded as affluent sophisticated fashionable stylish white people music.

seemed like every swanky bougie white people club embraced house music in the 90's / early 2000's.

This!
Even more now...especially with the fashion industry and VIP/Bottle Service club culture

The worst are all the youtubes videos of classic house tracks that some bougies cacs made and they put a picture of some 100 pound gapped thigh white chick with bad tatooos in a bikini by the beach in them.



Black music...but dont let the black people in the club they built.

 

[Unknown Poster]

I'm from Jersey so never

All my family in Jersey put me on house music back in the day...

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

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.

When Madonna's 'Vogue' came out

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Come to South Africa. House is bigger than hip-hop and r&b combined. Them US and European DJs are good here.

Babes Wodumo is incredible

 

[Unknown Poster]

When Madonna's 'Vogue' came out

I forgot about that!!!!!


That was specificaly black house culture vultured by Madonna.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

House music is dope