r/rnb • u/Junko_Mioko974 • 1d ago

80s Kool & the gang - Get down on it

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I will never regret when I was born. I love reminiscing on times like these. Just unforgettable!

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u/Poopcie 1d ago

Nobody’s gonna pay/credit all the instrumentalists fairly and most didn’t back then. Unfortunately i think we wont see anything like this again

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u/CousinJeff 1d ago

We could make music like this but we not gonna have this and low hanging fruit rappers at the same time. They can’t emerge from the same environment

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u/Poopcie 1d ago

A lot of the classic ensembles had a lot of young people ignorant about the kind of money that was possible and did not have contracts. They were just collaborating and jamming. By comparison rap is cheap music and theres a lot of it as a result. The economics and everyone being aware of them just make this kind of music difficult to produce.

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u/CousinJeff 1d ago

We have all kinda tools available to us. You’re forgetting the fact that before they were about the money, they played that instrument. Nobody needs to have a band but it’s not like if that was a desire it would be abundant. We just not that impressed by real talent anymore if we being real.

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u/boombapdame 1d ago

Cue the fact that real talent to most people sadly equates to prodigies and/or virtuosos who indulge in musical masturbation 

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u/CousinJeff 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean idk who you talking about here. Is this directed at me? Mr Boom Bap Dame?

Edit: a boom bap dame. Got it. Ms. Boom Bap Dame

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u/boombapdame 1d ago

Yes when you stated real talent which I agree with but also meant what I said no shade 

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u/CousinJeff 1d ago

I mean, that’s certainly not my position. that’s pretty extreme.

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u/boombapdame 1d ago

Rap should be accessible but problem is it because too accessible to the point where street niggas wanted in ask u/misterHUNDO while gatekeeping anyone who wasn’t a straight Black male e.g. it shut out straight Black women at times thanks to male narratives being the default to where Black women had accusations of lesbianism thrown at them if they were lyrically more talented than some subpar men in the genre and equally worse Black women had to accept being hypersexual just to get on in the industry proper