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Hip Hop Music rules the music charts
Hip hop music and hip-hop songs and dance is dominating both online and offline
music charts. Hip hop music fans experience an “it’s
about time” moment every time they turn on MTV, VH1
or any local radio station that does not specialize
in country music. Even urban channels that used to play
only mid tempo rock music have diversified their rotations
to include more hip hop music.
Why is hip hop suddenly everywhere?
Suburban Kids! They latched on the beats, nouveau riche
lifestyle full of machismo and bling, and they latched
on to the hip-hop party. Hip hop might have started out as a
companion to rap music, but today, the 2 musical genres
are a world apart. Hip hop is funky, full of energy,
dynamic, catchy, male, female, American, European, Asian
and Indian all at the same time.
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Modern hip hop is so dance friendly that frankly no
cares about the lyrics anymore. I can name a bunch of
up and comers in the field including Lloyd Banks, Ciara
(or anyone else out of the Missy/Timbaland factory)
and Chingy. Then, let’s not forget the 3 million people
that make up G-Unit and D12. That’s pretty cool.
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Now, can I name one lyrics verse of any song, by any of these
artists? Of course not! These people are selling hip
hop music for the club. If I hear even three seconds
of a song from any one of them, I’m on the dance floor.
Still, I can’t come up with two solid lines to any of
their songs. Why?
Hip Hop Music Masters
Rap music was artist driven. Hip Hop music is producer
driven. Producers are the ones who put together all
the ingredients to get you the final product, a hit
song. Since the rise of the producers starting with
Missy and Timbaland in the mid 90’s hip hop music has
gone mainstream.
The lyrics don’t matter much anymore because the meat
of the music-- is in the music. Literally, the complicated
arrangements, samples on top of samples, guest stars,
wanna-be stars and more, all culminate into MTV ready
hit songs.
It’s not that hip hop is not deep, or socially conscious.
It’s just that it has a different lineage. Rap masters
were the lyricists. Hip Hop Masters are non verbal communicators.
This is the blessing and curse of hip hop music.
That is why hip hop music is so present on radio,
cable TV, and now, in the online world. If you think
that modern hiphop music is a bit much, perhaps you
should try one of the streaming radio stations where
you can select hip hop music from the 80’s and 90’s
when rappers were still in charge. Get in touch with
De La Soul and some of the other early hiphop music
pioneers. reprint permission from goarticles.com
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