Why don't more black folks play guitar now adays?

[Amor fati]

I love my electric guitars.

Interesting in the 90's it wasn't rare to see AA/Black music that featured guitars, a lot of the west coats artists had live bands in their songs that included various instruments including live guitars, pac had quite a lot of guitar rifts on his death row music.

 

[FLORIDA BOI]

You know its good when folks boppin to it with they face like

 

[Greenhornet]

Tell me more please

although most people say conspiracy and controversy and compare sample songs and not catalogs
It's apparent to me that the vibrations and tunings alter formations molecularly. It's already proven in
water, sand, etc. Resonation can most definitely activate or separate under different circumstances.
I dont think all of their songs were recorded and produced this way, and some maybe not even intentionally
but to master music, you have to know which frequencies the human body reacts to, which ones you can cut
completely etc. You would have to study this as an engineer to level up as a producer, DJ Quik talks about all types
of off the wall frequency boosting stuff in interviews. On the flip side, you can also make a very chaotic song with disengaging
undertones to enhance it....subconsciously it sets in place a tone, whether apparent or not... that can alter the mind
besides the fact of the lyrics or content. Like you can make a really hard rock song but tune it to sound pleasant ... alternatively
you can record a very somber song and change the frequencies to be sharp and disengaging. Most people think what it sounds like
is what they are getting, and not the feeling its making you have on a different level. Lowkey music is witchcraft.

 

[Kenny West]

Go to church

 

[Amor fati]

Yeah I blame the current style of hip hop/RnB. There are some black guitar players who are out there killin it, but there doesn't seem to be an abundance of them.

The current style of hip-hop/RnB is trash and hella one dimensional. If I was an RnB singer I'd make it my business hire black guitar player to give myself a unique fusion sound.

 

[reasonable_doubter]

I love my electric guitars.

Interesting in the 90's it wasn't rare to see AA/Black music that featured guitars, a lot of the west coats artists had live bands in their songs that included various instruments including live guitars, pac had quite a lot of guitar rifts on his death row music.

but they grew up listening to classic artist..... late millennials and gen z didnt...

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

I love my electric guitars.

Interesting in the 90's it wasn't rare to see AA/Black music that featured guitars, a lot of the west coats artists had live bands in their songs that included various instruments including live guitars, pac had quite a lot of guitar rifts on his death row music.

But again, 2pac himself wasn't playing the guitar.

Rappers have always used musicians in the background as worker bees going back to Run-DMC & NWA

But the idea of young, hip cats playing the music themselves and being cool wasn't really that much of thing.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Hip hop's over popularity killed off other ways of making Black music

A Black kid today would be embarrassed to play the guitar, but not embarrassed to be seen dressed feminine

In the 2000s id agree with you but now the black kids are way more tolerable of "white people shyt'.

 

[3rdWorld]

The severe lack of live instrument players these days is pathetic.

We've gone from actual instruments that took talent, to using Fruity Loops

 

[Amor fati]

But again, 2pac himself wasn't playing the guitar.

Rappers have always used musicians in the background as worker bees going back to Run-DMC & NWA

But the idea of young, hip cats playing the music themselves and being cool wasn't really that much of thing.

Yes I know Pac wasn't playing the guitar, from the way I understood the thread and the conversations consisted of Fruit Loops and other stuff hence why mentioned R&B and rap in the past having live bands(In this case guitar players) and the musicians of now specifically in pop, rap and r&b genre have computerized beats which I even refuse to call a composition.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

i always liked eddie hazel/funkadelic waaaaaayyy more than Jimi

but i listened to Axis: Bold as Love on acid and that shyt was like a movie in my mind...

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

still out there.



i fasho figured this nikka would lead the wave for guitar playing just like everything else he's done

 

[The Fade]

Church drummers be killing it too

nikkas doing fast skank beats in service. Saw one breh do blast beats and shyt but the church was so hype

 

[KodeBlue]

I've had my guitar for 7 years and haven't attempted to play it yet

 

[Trot LaRoc]

Church drummers be killing it too

nikkas doing fast skank beats in service. Saw one breh do blast beats and shyt but the church was so hype

Pastor start moshing during benediction