50 years of Hip Hop- How Come?

I like Elton John.

I like John Coltrane.

I like Tool.

I like Bryn Terfel.

I like The Mills Bros.

I like most music, but.....

I don't particularly like hip hop.

I do not like rap.

I am getting old too, but it is more about not being able to relate to it at all. 

If Hip Hop has survived 50 years (I'm not qualified to answer that question. I can't even identify what makes a "song" Hip Hop), it is for the same reason every other genre has survived in time: there is an audience for it. It's no different than in 2000 or so Rock 'n' Roll could have been said to have lasted 50 years, which many older people in the 1950's didn't expect. Have you seen the clip of Frank Sinatra denigrating the 50's Rock 'n' Roll singers?

I love spicy food, my sister likes her's mild. In the world of Classical music my first love is the Baroque era (not that I don't love Beethoven, Wagner, and Rachmaninoff), a really fine bassist I played with likes Classical and Romantic more. Taste is taste, that's why, as the old joke goes, they make ice cream in different flavours. 

I like Schumann, but not all Schumann.

I like John Williams, but not all John Williams (Happy Birthday by the way! 🎉)

I like John Coletrane, but not all John Coletrane.

I like Glass Animals, but not all Glass Animals.

I like Snoop Dogg, but not all Snoop Dogg.

I like music, but not all music…(and that’s ok)

arguably, recognizable rock and roll music was being produced as far back as the 40s, cab calloway even referenced it. in light of this particular longevity, it is well-understandable that hip hop/rap and its variants would survive 50+ years.

Don’t really get it. What was new with Punk, New Wave or Grunge?
To me the new is that billions of artists can reach you through just a push on the button.