Michelle Nichols says "Hip Hop" will soon die, just like Disco
- added September 13, 2007
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- shirin88
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In this article, Michelle Nichols refers to hip hop as a ?flagging musical genre that may go the way of disco.? Because of course, 50 cent was the pioneer of hip hop way back in 2002, and now here we are in 2007, with the genre having its last big wave on this year?s MTV VMAs.
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Because there's nothing to hip-hop beyond what's on the radio.
I can has research? -
i'm pretty sure disco wasn't a global youth culture spanning thirty years, empowering the disenfranchised across multiple artforms. i love it when people outside of hip hop try to front like authorities on the culture because they can cite vague record industry statistics they read in billboard...
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I don't see Hip-Hop Demolition Night coming to Comiskey Park......anytime soon -
Who the hell is Michelle Nichols?This isn't Michelle "Uhura" Nichols is it?? -
Disco haters were often motivated by racism and homophobia. Hip hop haters... well...
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every musical genre has it's day where it's the #1 thing out there, and has had a significant falling out after it becomes homogenized and very very boring.
Rock has died quite a few times, Punk is definitely dead, and Grunge... we just won't discuss. Insert your own favorite little slice of music that you think is the most awesome thing here, and it's been declared dead at some point. Depending on your musical taste it may still be dead.
All of the music itself has not gone anywhere, obviously. That's not even what the article is saying. It's just saying that the days of mainstream bling rap being the undisputed heavyweight of the music industry is coming to an end. As it should be. Yes, things will still sell very well to certain subsections of people, but there's a good reason why 1.2 million people didn't buy the new 50 cent album this year, isn't there? Rap is on a downward trend so less artists will get major label deals, less promotion everywhere and all that while the major label people try to figure out what the new boom will be. It's both reactionary and evolutionary.
If you like the music that is "dead" you should be happy. You should be thrilled. You're going to get less crap, more quality in theory because it'll be harder to get a deal unless you're talented. No more homogenized "ringtone songs" that are shoved down your ear canal every time you listen...
I mean really, what's not to love about your music being "dead"? -
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A distinction needs to be made. There's a difference, at least in my opinion, between mainstream rap and hip-hop. While the two do overlap, I think it is more that rap music has had it's day in the spotlight. True hip-hop music is around and has been around and in some ways is doing as well as ever (look at someone like Common, whose latest album debuted at #1 on the charts, something he had never accomplished before in his much storied, yet often overlooked career).
I think what we're really seeing is a combination of at least 2 things. First, the music industry in general is struggling (or at least being drawn down to a more reasonable size). The simple fact is record sales are down across the board. Why not declare the music industry dead? The music industry is struggling for at least a couple of reasons that have nothing to do with hip-hop being dead (think fighting off the shift to a new media format by suing file-sharing software creators and the purchasers of music who also use such technology instead of embracing the technology from the jumpoff and also getting artists to sign ridiculous deals which pressure them to put out album after album with only 3 goods songs on them).
Second, sales of rap and hip-hop music are down even more than other genres. But this is not a signal that hip-hop is dead. Rather, rap reached such epic proportions that it really became popular music and is now coming down from that high status. Hip-hop started out as an underdog. Merely coming down from the top spot doesn't make anything dead. The music is out there, you just have to find it.
Also, like the article says, maybe some new voices are necessary. Or at least some new sounds. Fiddy maintaining the same sound album after album after album can grow boring. -
I still want someone to answer my question. Who the hell is Michelle Nichols and why does anyone care what she thinks?
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width="486" height="407">But do you care what Nas says?Because he kind of has some similar sentiments. But he does agree it is liberating to declare the end of hip-hop as it were.
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Disco didn't really it mutated into house and techno, early hip hop was spawned from disco- its a very rockist outlook to view disco as this fad that passed by 1980. it mutated and went underground.
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This is true, bigus. This shows an uninformed and unsophisticated writer at work.
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What about death metal? Can that which is dead ever really die? Whoa.
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- joebrilliant
- 09/17/07
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Go to the myspace page and listen to "Young Drunk America"
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- ConditionedGoods
- 8 months ago
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i dont think hip hop will die soon, but yes eventually, you can only make so many songs about bitches and hoes.
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- ashleyinesta
- 7 months ago
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uh...hop hop is not songs about b!tches and hoes.
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It looks like Hip-hop is doing OK and not on it's deathbed. About 200 people stood outside for over and hour and spent $15-20 to get in. You could even call this a disco, I think.
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- ConditionedGoods
- 7 months ago
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