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| Topic subject | You have to factor in the hip-hop revolution. |
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2899646, You have to factor in the hip-hop revolution.
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Tue Sep-02-14 03:14 PM
>I just found the article on allmusic.Com about the top 40 R&B
>hits of that year and they'd almost all fit in now.
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>The hits of 74 sounded like they were from a different planet
>in 1994.
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>The rate of change in popular Black music has slowed down
>tremendously since the mid 90s.
The reason why 94 and 2014 isn't such a big stretch the way 74 to 94 is because of the seismic shift that hip-hop did to the music landscape. Hip-hop influenced almost everything and you can hear it in almost all genres.
Why music can be cyclical you got account for the seismic changes that occasionally happen which totally disrupt the pattern.
I often wonder what the next once in a lifetime post hip-hop seismic change in music will be.
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