So we can't listen to a 5-6 minute song but a 3 hour podcast is fine?

[tremonthustler1]

I can't sit there and listen for no damn 3 hours.

Those episodes are gonna be broken down into 4-5 different sittings for me. I'll come back later when I have the time.

You can, but you gotta pick and choose carefully what pods you like. Every year I try to trim down what I play because enough pods and you won’t do shyt else with your day.

Podcasts are go-tos for long workouts though. You can play it and not have to touch your phone til it’s over. Depending on your job they make the day go faster

 

[Awesome Wells]

You can, but you gotta pick and choose carefully what pods you like. Every year I try to trim down what I play because enough pods and you won’t do shyt else with your day.

Podcasts are go-tos for long workouts though. You can play it and not have to touch your phone til it’s over. Depending on your job they make the day go faster

The interviews that are like an hour and change, like BagFuel's, I can do easily.

I usually listen on drives, but that's not long enough to finish whole episodes. I remember Ice-T had like a 5-hour episode on Combat Jack back in the day. I had to listen to that one in like a few sit-downs, lol.

 

[KillKenny]

I didn't check if someone already said it but most don't listen to podcast either, it's that one minute cuts FROM the podcast in social media that people are about


Edit: on the flip side, people used to enjoy music as a buffer from interactions with people. Nowadays people are spending most day on screen time, and podcast fills the hole of interactions they need (although they aren't actively talking, its basically a conversation)

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Songs are meant to be short form, podcasts are meant to be long form

This is dumb as hell

Aint no tv shows 3 hours long

 

[DontEemTry]

nikkas will pay to listen to 3 hours of Joe fukking Budden talking about a bunch of nothing.

Same nikkas don't got time to listen to free philosophy, science, history or educational podcasts.

Oh yeah I went there.

 

[GreenGhxst]

People aren't listening to 3 hour podcast, they're cherry-picking those two or three minutes highlight clips from the podcast interviews.

Yeah we are

 

[FlimFlam]

Podcasts aren't a repetitive outlet like songs are

depending on what you mean by repetitive, yea tf they are ...the commercial ones at least

everybody tripping over themselves to speak to the same people about the same tired topics

 

[Nostalgic]

Yeah we are

You need to find something more productive to do with your time then.

Edit: I'd be damn if I'm about listen to nyggaz talk about a bunch of nothing for 2-3 hours.

 

[GreenGhxst]

You need to find something more productive to do with your time then.

Edit: I'd be damn if I'm about listen to nyggaz talk about a bunch of nothing for 2-3 hours.

You can't tell me what to do with my time

 

[CrimsonTider]

Podcast suck

 

[Fiji Water]

depending on what you mean by repetitive, yea tf they are ...the commercial ones at least

everybody tripping over themselves to speak to the same people about the same tired topics

Maybe you should freak your algo, breh. But ngl, when it comes to hip-hop/black podcasts, you ain't lying.

But part of that is the platforms. This whole "unalived instead of died" wave is not the business.

That's why I mix it up. I listen to Trevor Noah, Neil Degrassi Tyson, and a lot of other types of lectures. Hip hop a genre so it's always gonna have a predetermined scope.

 

[Shadow King]

Songs are meant to be short form, podcasts are meant to be long form

This is an excuse. Attention span is attention span. Songs are short now because rappers have less to say/ways to say things and brevity conceals that.

Songs were originally short in the 45 era(before hip hop). The early albums, including hip hop, were short albums with 10 songs or less. Now a 10 song album is considered and EP, but it's smart. Chris Brown years ago released a 30-track album. why??? What is the point in spending almost a year to record and release 30 songs that people will listen to for 2 weeks and forget about?

All songs were not 3 minutes or less. EP vs LP was based on total time, not number of songs. A 10 song project "shouldn't" be an EP, but today that project would be 22-25 minutes, so why not?

Breezy releases long albums for streaming/certification purposes. Not much different than a double album physical unit. But artistically, I agree, leave material on the cutting room floor.

 

[Yaboysix]

Nygga, who is WE!?

Im late 30's...the artist I listen to don't make minute and 60 second long songs , and when they do they be FYE.(Multiple back to back listens)

And I listen to podcasts on long drives and in my 13 hour shift over night...the longer the podcast the better

 

[Yehuda]

I don't listen to three-hour podcasts. Who's making six-minute-long songs nowadays?

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

This is an excuse. Attention span is attention span. Songs are short now because rappers have less to say/ways to say things and brevity conceals that.

All songs were not 3 minutes or less. EP vs LP was based on total time, not number of songs. A 10 song project "shouldn't" be an EP, but today that project would be 22-25 minutes, so why not?

Breezy releases long albums for streaming/certification purposes. Not much different than a double album physical unit. But artistically, I agree, leave material on the cutting room floor.

All songs weren't short, but a lot of singles were many decades ago. A 45 record(that plays at 45 rpm) can hold but so much music. That's why you'd have James Brown songs that would be parts 1 and 2 on each side. Look at James browns biggest hits of the 60s. Almost all of those(if not all) are 3:30 or less. Then when the 70s came in, songs like "the payback" was over 7 minutes long. Songs like "king heroin" and "Public enemy" were 2 parts. Even Prince in the early 80s would record all of his songs 10 mins or more and edit them down for album consumption and radio. And still some of them were long on the album, but Purple Rain had only 9 songs. Just as Thriller.