50 years of Hip Hop- How Come?

@ghasley 

It's real music and has great appeal to many, no doubt about that, and that is a great thing. It just seems to me like I'm ready to hear some thing totally new and fresh musically, and I have been for some time. Seems like things changed up a lot more often musically pre 2000 then since. Maybe I just don't appreciate or see the nuances of changes these days.

Seem like a lot of people commenting in support of hip hop. I’m not trying to slam hip hop at all. Some of it is great and some not so good, like any other kind of music. My point is it’s been so long since anything radically new has emerged.

There hasn’t been much fresh new music that "gets under my skin" as edcyn says and some  posters seem to feel the same way.

I access music entirely by streaming and have access to most everything that is out there.

Americana....the Band did it in the 70s.

Ambient....Brian Eno did it in the 80s, and on it goes.

Maybe things seemed more creative back then because most music required the talent and input of multiple musician/artists working together to create something unique.Seems like a lot of modern music is created by "the artist" with most instrumentation and production being rather sparse and being done via digital instrumentation. It seems like all you need is a keyboard/synthesiser, a drum machine, and a digital recorder.

OP back into this thread. Perhaps it’s time to move on. I never intended my post to be a debate on the merit or lack of merit of hip hop or for that matter any genre. Even worse to see criticism with racial undertones.

I was trying to point out that, at least to my perception, there has been little music that seems truly new, fresh, and dramatically different in a long time. It seemed like before about 2000, music of a given era was quite different from a time say 10 years before it. Certainly a lot of that can be associated with a transition of instruments, from acoustic, to electric, to digital. I’m waiting for "the next big thing".