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2645958, I figured out what it is, man. Underdeveloped talent
Posted by TheTruest Warrior, Thu Jan-05-12 06:06 AM
Alotta cats today
are just folks who start making music at 19 years old
and then release an album at 21.

You mention artists like Prince and Stevie
who are greats,
but even
the cats who weren't ICONS back then were cats who'd spent their life playing instruments or singing or honing their crafts.
So we had an industry full of cats who were seasoned artists and performers.
I mean peep how old those cats sounded.
Temptations, Donny Hathway and them were young dudes.
Otis Redding, Glenn Goines (whose birthday just passed Jan 2nd RIP)
Sam Cook...
All YOUNG DUDES with these mature voices.

I'm not saying you didn't have cats in the game back then who weren't artistically mature...
It's just wayyyy more prevalent today.

A guy like The Game said he was rapping 2 years when his first cd came out
And this is the story with many artists today
Very few of them hone their crafts
Many of the start making music a couple of years before releasing it

And this isn't some kind of damnation of the new scene
It's just an observation, because I do dig some of the shit

I also realize this why I don't gravitate towards many people as ARTISTS these days though
I gravitated toward Stevie, Prince, Donny, Sly etc because they had not only natural talent but DEVELOPED talent
And Sly and Donny were before my time
but I dug in the past to find shit that inspired me because new arists weren't doing shit for me, for the most part

I rarely see ANY cats today with any kind of developed talent

This is why I lost interest in "new" music at the age of 15