Why don't black people make good music anymore?

Question

I mean come on you can't compare rap music of today with the music of the 1930s thru 1960s I mean wot black people used to make back then was real and meant something. We still know the old songs now! How many rap songs from the 2000s will we remember in 50 years? Not that many!! What has happened to the black American culture that they have stopped making wonderfull music like back a long time ago :(??

Answer 1

Try
Heather Headley
MAry J blige
Floetry
Anthony Hamilton

Answer 2

You might be looking at the past without realizing that there is a foreshortening of time involved. The result of that foreshortening is to raise the apparent rate of important events. In your case, the important events are "good tunes," but it works as well with wars, deep philosophical insights, or whatever.

I'll try to explain how the foreshortening works. Imagine that weeks are like train cars, all strung together on a railroad track, near which you are standing. "This week" is the train car nearest you on the track. It's side faces you directly, and you are therefore able to see its whole length unforeshortened. Or almost.

But as you scan the weeks that have passed (in the direction toward which the train is moving), the train cars seem to bunch together. That's not only because of their distance, but also because of the acute angle from which you must observe them.

Likewise, events that happened in the past seem to bunch together into tighter bundles. It's as if all of 1967 had the same "angular footprint" in your consideration that the single day of January 7th, 2007, has.

So my thinking is that Blacks produced good tunes and utterly forgettable tunes in about the same proportion, back in the 1950s, as they do today. You've just forgotten the forgettable ones, and the foreshortening effect of your perspective in time makes the better Black tunes seem to clump more densely than they really do.

Answer 3

Rap music is just another genre of yesterdays rhythm and blues it may not be the same but we are in different eras now. i still listen to music from the 40's 50's and 60's as well as the ones today. When my gram hears what i listen to nowadays, she says what kinda music is that,? that is the same way we are going to behave 50 years from now when we listen to our grandchildren's music. and people liike mary J, floetry, brian mcknight sing music like those people back then too. just a bit more hip. I think black people make music to make u dance and shake, not just whistle and snap your fingers like country and alternate.

Answer 4

I think it's music in general that's the problem. I don't think one group of people is responsible.

Answer 5

ok.

I do agree with you on some points.
BUT...
not all "black people" make bad music today.
there are still good songs out there- and more new artists getting recognized..
so, don't generalize.

Answer 6

i kinda agree with you. i've even switched to listening to different genres of music because hip hop isn't what it used to be. it has no meaning like it did before.

Answer 7

well heavy metal and punk rock aren't the best that white people have to offer either.

Answer 8

Because Jimi Hendrix is dead

Answer 9

Too much crack ruined their natural rhythm