Do you think hip hop radio for mature audiences would work?

[Mally_G]

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I'm no radio host, "but I work with what I have" - Martin Lawrence

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You mean XM radio?

It couldn't work on regular radio?

Clear Channel has the radio game in a strangle hold. CC has almost all of their stations using the same playlist. There was a time where you can travel the country and hear the sounds of whatever region you were in, now it's all the same everywhere you go. There is no way the type of music we're talking about in this thread will be played on any CC radio channel.

Just as BET once admitted, Little Brother's music is too smart for their listeners and viewers, so LB never got play. The music we're talking about is too real for the listeners who tune into your regular FM/AM stations. Money has dumbed down what the masses hear and see on radio and television. Just like Niggas In Paris, people wonder why it's so successful.........well, listen to the track, it sounds dopey/silly. The average, young and dumb listener doesn't care to hear about lyrics and good R&B, they care about the silly sound and lyrics that say something more about nothing.

Even XM is starting to get repetitive with their playlist. There was a time where XM/Sirius used to play the exclusives, shit you hear on mixtapes or heard during a concert and was released first to XM, now, they play just about the same songs the regular radio play with the cussing. There happens to be more room to segregate old school, new stuff, R&B, classic R&B, soul, etc on XM, so if you want to hear that genre of music all day, just tune in, but even then, the playlist is somewhat limited. I can tune to the old school hip hop station and hear Positive K "I Got A Man" at least 2-3 times in a day. Hip Hop is damn near 30 years old, and they still playing the same songs day after day. It almost makes it no different than your regular FM/AM stations.

 

[c.b.b.]

I know in the Phoenix, AZ area there was a station playing nothing but old school hiphop. Can't remember the name of the station, but the music was dope as hell

 

[real_hh_rep]

It could work. There are so many old school fans who are missing old era. Hip-hop is getting older and generation that grew on Golden Age type of rap, has nothing to find in today's hip-hop. I know a lot of people who're yearning for good old days.

 

[5th Letter]

@Mally_G you made a good point but I'm saying if someone in clear channel or emmis decides to do it, it may work.