Since rap has been around since the 70’s how come there are very few people over the age of, let’s say 30 that are into it?
There are definitely people over 30 into rap music but the older people get the less common it is…i just had thought about this because my uncle told me he grew out of rap music and he is only 34.
So has anybody ever grew out of anything musically?
I don’t see myself growing out of anything as far as music goes my tastes would only expand not get smaller.
I myself have grown out of rock music. I used to listen to a lot of Korn, RATM, SlipKnot, Staind, etc… many times over. But now, even when I hear new stuff, it’s like bleh. I still love those tunes, but I’m just not into it anymore. I’m now heavily into Rap music and don’t see myself getting over it yet. Maybe 3 years from now it’ll be Regae for me? Everyone’s different.
Moving this from IMHO to Cafe Society.
That’s what I thought when I was your age. Now, seven or so years later, there’s stuff I used to love that just doesn’t do anything for me any more. That’s part of growing older, I guess. Who knows what we’ll be like seven years down the road?
I “outgrew” the rock I listened to in junior high, the hippie music I listened to in my early 20s, and the grunge from my later 20s. Granted, I still enjoy the stuff, just not with the fervor of those times.
However, the alt-country, punk, alt-rock, atmospheric, alt-folk and metal stuff from my past (too many alts - but how else do you describe Grandaddy, Elliott Smith, old REM, Uncle Tupelo, Mercury Rev, etc. etc.?) is still going strong in my musical tastes. Hip-hop is my new love, and only time will tell whether it will go the way of the Grateful Dead (fond memories, but come on) or Cheap Trick for example, or whether it will have the staying power of Sparklehorse or Radiohead as far as my continuing interest. There is no way to tell.
It’s the phenomenon of new stuff within the genre changing beyond what you were used to growing up. I mean, I listened to Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh, Roxanne Shante, KRS-ONE, Rakim, Melle Mell, Dana Dane, the Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, X-Clan, Kool Moe Dee and growing up in the 70s and 80s and by the mid-80s, with the emergence of Miami and the West Coast devising their own music styles, even then there was stuff I paid little or no attention to. (Fat Boys? Kwame the Boy Genius, anyone?) These days with even the better acts in gangsta rap somewhat on a wane (since Biggie and 'Pac) , political rappers damn near gone (come back Chuck D!) the commercial successes in rap these days stuck on an unyeilding bling bling hootchie mama mode with acts like Nas and Outkast being the exception rather than the norm – it’s depressing musically. I tend to gravitate more to vintage jazz and Philly neosoul these days. That said, being a public schoolteacher in an urban district keeps me closer to what’s hot among young people, so I doubt I’ll ever fully grow out of rap appreciation as long as I’m teaching.
I’ve never “outgrown” my musical tastes (essentially, Classical), and I doubt that I ever will. I don’t think that Classical is something that is typically “outgrown.” There’s so much of it and so much of it is pretty (for lack of a better word), “deep.”
However, I do listen to a lot of film music (which is, in general, only played on Classical stations, so it’s close enough to Classical to me) and some of the scores that I used to like I don’t like so much anymore. They are still “okay” but not as interesting as I first thought at age 14.
However, some pieces of music that I didn’t care so much for at age 14 are now considered “freakin’ brilliant.” I grew into these works, not grew out of them. They were too complex for me to really appreciate at age 14, but now I’ve matured enough to comprehend them.