BSide // 13 hours ago
What a headline. Why don't you tell that to Common? Or Lil Wayne? Or Rick Ross?And while you're at it, tell Wynton Marsalis that jazz no longer exists.
There are millions of artists across the country who pour everything they have into writing good, creative, intelligent, innovative music - hip-hop, jazz, and otherwise, that you would probably LOVE to hear.
But because you don't hear them on your radio or see them on your TV, you declare that they don't exist.
Clear Channel Communications owns 1207 radio stations. On those stations, they play the same hand-picked songs every hour...you can find it on their websites. They pick the songs they think that your average lazy fool wants to hear. "You want dumb? We're broadcasting all the dumb you can handle, 24-7!"
Put your money where your mouth is. If you really want good music, get onto the Internet and search for it. Moving to the internet will eventually kill off the lazy radio stations, the same way it's killing the lazy newspapers who get publish 90% of their news based on AP wire, and do it a day late.
So it goes.
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