The end of an era, DJ Michael Watts died yesterday

Houston has a legendary hip-hop label?

It's Click, but that could have been done better by AI

Michael Watts, he made me hot, hard work took me to the top

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Thanks MTV

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a. MTV didn't make hip hop popular. It gave the market, comprised of individuals who liked hip hop and demanded more of it, what it was asking for.

b. You're quite ignorant if you think MTV had anything to do with Screw being popular. It wasn't exactly a popular style, nationally

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MTV told generations of youth they should be into this rap crap or they're racists.

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You're just making shite up

They took a lot of heat when hip hop transformed into rap and then gangsta rap in the 90s, as society was collapsing around it, for playing it. There was nothing about racism involved. People just loved the music and wanted more.

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More like quit proud I'm ignorant of it.

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Yes you are showing your pride in your ignorance ITT.

Your pride in your creativity and alternative facts, as well

It’s crazy how the millenials had shitty ghetto rap forced on us our entire lives and now it’s been replaced by lesbian man hating pop music for the younger generation


Anyone who says “it’s what the people want” is lying. The popular music of the day is chosen by “industry” just like how early 2000s was dominated by douche rock bands like 3 doors down to encourage the boomlineals born in the 80s to go to iraq

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They took a lot of heat when hip hop transformed into rap and then gangsta rap in the 90s, as society was collapsing around it, for playing it. There was nothing about racism involved. People just loved the music and wanted more

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Cmon man you aren’t really this naive are you


In the days before the internet people would “love” whatever was on the radio because there wasn’t an easy way to get music otherwise. Humans are wired to like music. If the industry hadn’t decided to switch off big band we’d still be listening to it today. They switched to rock and roll because you don’t have to pay as many musicians



ETA: the switch to gangster rap was cia marketing to sell more crack

Helped destroy America. frick him.

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Helped destroy America

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In the days before the internet people would “love” whatever was on the radio because there wasn’t an easy way to get music otherwise. Humans are wired to like music. If the industry hadn’t decided to switch off big band we’d still be listening to it today.

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There’s a lot of truth here.

That was an era dominated by big recording companies, who pushed out music to radio (and then MTV), and didn’t promote other music. Their choices at the time.