127090, i didnt mean black rock as in living colour etc Posted by GumDrops, Fri Jul-03-09 08:26 AM
i just meant hip hop is sort of black music's rock (im forgetting 50s rnr for convenience). R&B is more like black pop, but hip hop is, or was rather, its rock, where it was very artist driven, took itself more seriously, thought of itself as an agent for social change, an album oriented medium, against the establishment, against 'pop ideals', etc etc. lots of parallels. but yeah i agree, a lot of the so called card carrying black rockers like in afro punk etc, i cant hear anything all that 'black' (as in RnB/soul/funk influenced) in their music. but thats a separate post. we dont need to go there again.
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