what genre is going to murder the pants off hip-hop?

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seriously? is everything from here on out going to be hip hop influenced? is that the future now? whats gonna kill this monster?

― killah, Monday, 25 July 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

It's all about the coffee-table gabba mang!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

classical music's gonna make a comeback

― merc, Monday, 25 July 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Skifflecore.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Who knew hip-hop was going to kill rock (which is in its death-throes as we speak).

It'll be something we don't expect.

Like Wolf Eyes.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

M.I.A.!!!! YAY!

― deej.., Monday, 25 July 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Barbershop death metal.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Hip Hop is undead.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 25 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

girl group revival.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 25 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

post-barbershop

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 25 July 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Answer: grumpo. Expect the preliminary novelty chart-entry with Greezy Heath's "Doin' the Grump," 2013.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 25 July 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Italo, baby!

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Snogglecore

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

I always see things in this reductive manner:

Records replaced the popularity of music hall performances with the Jazz Era

Music radio replaced Jazz with the Rock Era as youth music.

Sequencers/mixers replaced Rock as youth music and brought the Electronic Era (Hip-Hop and global electronic dance music)

So it'll take some new technology (not more electronics per se) and a bacth of kids fucking with it to create that which will take over the spotlight (mashups are not what I'm talking about). Judging by the track record, it'll be quite a while.

It's not like Jazz and Rock are dead you know. They just don't hog the spotlight. I'm sure there were plenty of kids still into Jazz in the 60's, yadda yadda yadda.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Despite your plangent claims to the the contrary, hip-hop has not had a changing-of-the-guard year like pop/rock had in 1965. Rock is probably "dead" in the sense that this board's charming dance enthusiasts understand death. But it doesn't follow that anything has replaced it, let alone that that anything is itself playing out its string. Maybe we live in an era of ronan, miniscule musical city-states, and general chaos. What's wrong with that?

I assume some dipshit will now post an image of a cartoon character named General Chaos.

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Despite your plangent claims to the the contrary, hip-hop has not had a changing-of-the-guard year like pop/rock had in 1965.

Hip-Hop has had a few:

1979: Rap Records replace Hip-Hop culture (Rapper's Delight)
1982: Drum machines and message records (Planet Rock/The Message)
1987: Samples and lyricists (Rakim/PE's Rebel W/O a Pause)
1996: Cameo producers and absolute R&B infiltration (Puff Daddy/Trackmasters)

I think that the 65/66 equivelent is most relevant to the 87/88 Public Enemy/SP1200/Ultimate Beats and Breaks compilations. They call it "The Golden Age of Hip-Hop" for a reason.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

It's possible that an emerging technological paradigm will rearticulate youth culture, but why should this be based solely around popular music? Perhaps there's a synthesis of locative digital media or participatory forms of gaming waiting around the corner.

Course, drugs are another important factor worth considering...

― Mika, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

PappaWheelie, I agree 1987-1990 was the Golden Age of Hip-Hop. And 1991-1994 was the golden age of grunge.

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

"grumpo"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

Slime

― latebloomer: You may order a puppet similar to this one (latebloomer), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Nanotrance!

― Mika, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Garage rock melds with garage house.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

game-fuckin'-lan

― cnwb (cnwb), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

Like most "new" artistic genres it'll likely be founded by a relative "hack" from another genre who wasn't talented enough to copy the popular thing so he more or less stumbled on something pretty original. The truly creative people usually show up soon after.

I wouldn't rule out it being guitar dominated either as I remember an anecdote about the Beatles being turned down by a label because one guy said the guitar sound was on the decline. Can anyone back this up for me?

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

guitarless, hammond organ-dominated heavy metal

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

Now you have crossed the line.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

"I AM IRONMAN!"
http://www.digitalorchestra.co.uk/gallery/JW037.jpg

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

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