50 years of Hip Hop- How Come?

Death Metal Polka. I just found my new career….

Hip Hop is like Urban folk/punk. The stories are amazing. Ive listened to hip-hop for well over 30 years. Im an old school chicago graff writer, before every painting mission, whether rooftops or trainyards- wed get pumped to the Artifacts - and was even in the same crew as Common - UAC. From Tribe Called Quest to WuTang to Necro - hip hop is a real, viscerol and touching fringe art. You dont have to love it - but you cant deny it. In the 90s hip hop was life.
Diggable Planets, Del, Artifacts, Wu-f#cking-tang, Guru, Necro, Old Dirty Bastard, Atmosphere, Slick Rick, Lords Of Brooklyn etc etc etc - history.

Totally agree with your assessment and I've often wondered the same thing. I've lived through the mellow/rock of the '70s, disco, New Wave and House in the 80s/90s, Euro, EuroNRG, HiNRG, Trance, Ambient and so on. They all come and go but Hip Hop is still here. Not sure why. It's not for me but that's fine. I thought Hip Hop came about in the 80s? If it's 50 years old, it would have started in the early 70s, correct? I don't remember Hip Hop in the early 70s. Personally, my fav genres were New Wave and House.

There is literally a whole world of music out there to explore.  Pretty much every country has "classical", "folk", and "popular" traditions, which may or may not sound anything like your native versions.  Nothing against Hip Hop, but it's just one version of US Pop.  You don't need to pick your music from a Billboard.

Seem like a lot of people commenting in support of hip hop. I’m not trying to slam hip hop at all. Some of it is great and some not so good, like any other kind of music. My point is it’s been so long since anything radically new has emerged.

There hasn’t been much fresh new music that "gets under my skin" as edcyn says and some  posters seem to feel the same way.

I access music entirely by streaming and have access to most everything that is out there.

Americana....the Band did it in the 70s.

Ambient....Brian Eno did it in the 80s, and on it goes.

Maybe things seemed more creative back then because most music required the talent and input of multiple musician/artists working together to create something unique.Seems like a lot of modern music is created by "the artist" with most instrumentation and production being rather sparse and being done via digital instrumentation. It seems like all you need is a keyboard/synthesiser, a drum machine, and a digital recorder.