Quote Originally Posted by quickdodge®
There's actually not a lot of artists saying this. Just a few. I've heard old school artists try to re-emerge and try to appeal to the younger generation of listeners. It fell on deaf ears. Including mine. Grandmaster Melle Mel tried a couple of years ago to release a new album. He had a couple of awesomely classic Flash tracks but the rest was trying to garner the attention of younger folks. It just didn't work. The club-style sound of songs has taken over and younger people don't know the roots of the genre. They don't know the struggles an artist back in the late 70s/early 80s had to go through to get any sort of respect. If they got any period outside their own block.

It's just a cycle that every generation of every music style goes through. For the most part, everyone's parents hated the music that the child listened to. It just trickles down from generation to generation. This is a cycle that will never be broken. You grow up on a certain style and that sjust stays with you and nothing else is good enough. Like to me, the 70s/80s music scene will never be topped. For the younger people, the music of today is the shiit.

Oh and Soulja Boi the "rapper" sucks. Soulja Boi the entertainer sucks to me, but is obviously not so "sucky" to a lot of other folks. Later, QD.
what age do you consider young?

actually that doesnt matter cuz there are quite a few younger cats (younger than I) that shock tha sh¡t outta me with their understanding of hip-hop and its roots.