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

[K.Dot]

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 white people got hip, like everything else. I live in the Midwest however so we still like it down here. House music and "edm" in general has a very strong influence in hip-hop that's hot right now.

 

[K.Dot]

South Africa the new HQ for House music or Kwaito as they call it...Orlando heh!

That African American influence

 

[K.Dot]

I'm from Jersey so never

Do y'all like it as much as us ?

Midwest nikka here

 

[UpAndComing]

Weekend's song "Secrets" is one of my favorite songs

 

[Concerning VIolence]

DUDE..

You dont know how sad it makes me when I talk to younger black people about house and techno and "EDM" and they automatically assume its white European music that black people had nothing to do with.

Just like rock and roll.

it tells us how important a BLACK face is important to music/art. Representation is powerful.

Hip-hop can fall to the same wayside if it's black face is ever minimized.

 

[UpAndComing]

That African American influence

Have no knowledge of African music brehs

 

[K.Dot]

Have no knowledge of African music brehs

What? All our music comes from there, what's your point????

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

When Europeans appropriated it by suppressing Soulful House in favor of Industrial Techno shyt led by the likes of MOBY and Overpaid Undertalented deejays like Paul Oakanfield and the Chemical Brothers...

when iwas young i loved the Club Zanzibar sessions coming outta new jersey...and the NYC Soulful house deejaying by cats like Larry Levan and Timmy Regisford who did alot of production on Guy's first album and was very influentual on Teddy Riley keyboard style

but the Media kept pushing that Euro shyt.....

which made alot of us move away HOUSE all together.....im sure @Newark88 cant validate this

 

[BigMan]

Do y'all like it as much as us ?

Midwest nikka here

Yes house and den is/was big here
Now we have jersey club which has now gone mainstream

Nxwxrk (DJ Sliink Remix)

 

[xCivicx]

I love house music

I make house music

 

[patscorpio]

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.

i think it because it got synonymous with gays and voguing and stuff of that nature..def in the 90s

 

[Rozay Oro]

Jerz u know what it is. Use to pick up them baltimore club cds from Newark back in the day. House music is all over the world low ki. Some of us blacks still fukk with it. But I'd say it died out in the early 2000's once the house parties died down and everybody started messin with watever was out at the moment mainstream wise.

But @Sagat i know u known its a crazy underground seen of house that n1ggas are missing out on. House/Hip dancers are practically making a living off of it. My girl killin it right now.

Just pm, we don't need this to be public for agents to see

 

[International Playa]

Rap music has been garbage, Im back rocking House music, especially south african house

Nikkaz need to travel, listening to house music, drinking cocktails on a beach in Ibiza,

 

[International Playa]

South Africa the new HQ for House music or Kwaito as they call it...Orlando heh!

Thats most of the house music I listen to, South African house

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Has House/Techno EVER been that big amongst black ppl outside of Detroit and Chicago ?

I fukk with it but I'm from the D.I've always assumed that House/Techno/Juke/Jit was always some regional Detroit/Chicago shyt while every other nikka from different regions went the hip hop route.