Hip hop dying? Say it ain't so!

          Remember that song Eminem made, "Without Me?" In that song, he dissed Moby and said "Nobody listens to techno" Looks like those days are over. For the longest time, Rap and R&B dominated the radio; now I'm hearing more and more of this EDM crap. When I was at a journalism workshop this guy from Power 96 was teaching a class on radio and he had the nerve to say that hip hop isn't where it used to be, we are living in a modern disco age and all the hottest songs are either techno or funk. And to add on that, at my school's Homecoming, the music played was 65% EDM. If hip hop isn't dying, then it's stagnate. It's time to face facts, the end is nigh. Pretty soon rap fans will be a minority, we're going to hear more ignorant comments like: "Ha! you still listen to rap? all it is is money, drugs and hoes!" "Dude, hip hop is dead man! You gotta listen to EDM; this is the future!"

           I wrote about something like this before "Hip Hop Renaissance" but it's really starting to get to me. I heard EDM versions of "Love Sosa" and "Suicidal Thoughts,"

 

WHEN WILL IT STOP?!!??

            What do you think about this? Am I overreacting? Should I let it go and move on? Does anybody out there feel my pain?  Let me know.

CrazySexyCool and 90s R&B

        I've accepted the fact that I was probably one of a few teenage boys who watched the TLC bipoic, CrazySexyCool, Monday night. This is how most of the conversations about it went for me yesterday:

            Me- "Hey, did you see the TLC movie last night?"
            Clueless kid- "You mean the TV channel?"
            Me- "No, the girl group-"
            Clueless kid- "TLC? Never heard of them."
            Me- "You never heard of  'Waterfalls'? 'Creep'? Left-eye???"
            Clueless kid "........."
      
          I often forget that most people don't know much about things they weren't alive to remember, nor do they bother to research them- guess that makes me the weird one. It's a little sad that not a lot of young people know about the R&B scene of the 90s. What made acts like TLC, En Vogue, and Aaliyah so popular were that they made songs with women empowering themes but they weren't corny and it was okay for guys to bump them. I'm not going to get too preachy. All I'm saying is if you ever get tired of hearing Rihanna sing about "strippers going up and down that pole", look up "Ooooooooh.. on the TLC Tip", "CrazySexyCool", "Age Ain't Nothing but Nothing but a Number" or "One in a Million," you won't regret it.