I’m impressed if you have managed to have never heard Outkast. They were all over the radio with Hey Ya and The Way You Move from Speakerboxx/The Love Below. They are a very good example of why I think the broad brush used on rap here is incorrect. Especially when it comes to mainstream huge selling rap.
>>They are a very good example of why I think the broad brush used on rap here is incorrect. Especially when it comes to mainstream huge selling rap.
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cRap has no staying power. In the music industry, there is a concept known as “catalog.” It basically means albums and songs that sell long after their release. Items like “Yellow Brick Road”,”White Album”, “In Search of the Lost Chord” etc. still dominate the catalog domain.
cRap music has about a 1 week shelf life. There is no catalog and eventually the industry will implode from its own embrace of the non-sustainable street poetry.
Who goes back for 10 or 20 year for cRap? No one. But people still want to buy and enjoy “Houses of the Holy.”
“I’m impressed if you have managed to have never heard Outkast.”
I don’t have time to listen to the radio and I can’t handle commercials. Plus, most of my work is orchestral so I’m rarely exposed to anything beat-driven outside of dance clubs.
It’s annoying because I known I’m missing a lot of good stuff.