After Gene Simmons said that he’s looking forward to the death of Rap and complained about N.W.A being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, the Kiss frontman now admits that he doesn’t really want Rap to die, The List reports.
In March, he told Rolling Stone that not only was he looking forward to Rap’s decline but that he was also hoping for the return of the melody and song.
“I didn’t mean that mean-spirited,” the Kiss vocalist now says. “I’ve got to watch my words. Of course I don’t want it to die. But it will. Rock dies, rap dies – doo-wop died. That Chuck Berry stuff is gone. Folk rock went. All things will pass. This idea that music will last forever is delusional.”
“I’ve been criticized for saying rock is dead but I stand by my words,” he continues. “From 1958 to 1988 we had Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The [Rolling] Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Queen. From 1988 until today, give me the new Beatles? It doesn’t work, does it? Pretty fucking pathetic. The boy band is alive and well. One Direction is a very big band. The pop stuff is good. You’ve got [Justin] Bieber and Beyoncé. But I don’t know how to tell anybody this, but it ain’t the Beatles. It doesn’t have the gravitas.”
Simmons’ distaste for Rap music is nothing new and the 66-year-old musician has been very vocal about his annoyance of Hip Hop artists being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. More recently he had a public back and forth with Ice Cube who was inducted into the Hall of Fame with his N.W.A group members this year. The Kiss guitarist questioned why Hip Hop artists get inducted at all.
“You’ve got Grandmaster Flash in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Run-D.M.C. in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? You’re killing me,” he said. “That doesn’t mean those aren’t good artists. But they don’t play guitar. They sample and they talk. Not even sing.”
Ice Cube‘s rebuttal to Simmons’ assertion was simply that Rock and Roll is about the spirit of the music, not the sound.
hip hop is trash nowadays but everything seems so trash nowadays. this generation is fucked up i hope some big war conflict happens so this fucked up lame generation dies.
It’s the mainstream hip hop and stuff being played on radio that people consider trash. Not all hip hop fits this mold and there’s a lot of quality hip hop being given produced no matter what your flavor is. Hip hop fans need to do a better job of seeking out music because it’s definitely out there.
It’s the mainstream hip hop and stuff being played on radio that people consider trash. Not all hip hop fits this mold and there’s a lot of quality hip hop being given produced no matter what your flavor is. Hip hop fans need to do a better job of seeking out music because it’s definitely out there.
Exactly Eddie Diaz. Hip hop fans have to search for quality music, it is out there! You can blame Bill Clinton for signing the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Twenty years later the devastating impact of the legislation is undeniable: About 90 percent of the country’s major media companies are owned by six corporations. This means they control the music you hear on mainstream radio, all day! This is why you hear the same bullshit in every major city!
hey at least he apologized for being a toolshed
Yes watch your words because the things you said about Prince after he died wasn’t cool either.
Well, Gene was right. Hip hop is dead already. These f4ggots (Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert, Fetty Wap, Future, Lil Yachty, etc.) belong to a different genre entirely, they are what I would label as “gay music” or “retarded music”.
hip hop would be dead if it weren’t for artists like payday monsanto, locksmith, R.A. the rugged man, chali 2na, k-rino, jarv, etc. that are extremely talented, intelligent, unique, and making music with a message. but unfortunately they aren’t on most people’s radar because the music industry loves to keep us as dumb and unconscious as possible (just like the prison industry)
haha, fam…people don’t pay attention to any of those cats that you mentioned, because they are corny as fuck. you might as well throw immortal technique into the bunch
haha, fam…people don’t pay attention to any of those cats that you mentioned, because they are corny as fuck. you might as well throw immortal technique into the bunch
Not k-rino lol that man is real
Cause he didnt mention your gay lover Drake and Kendrick.
man, all you white boys with your white boy rap suck. no one cares about Charli 2NA. NO ONE CARES ABOUT ANY OF THIS. YALL LOVE ATMOSPHERE AND ALL THESE OTHER TERRIBLE RAPPERS. PLEASE STOP CULTURE VULTURES.
man, all you white boys with your white boy rap suck. no one cares about Charli 2NA. NO ONE CARES ABOUT ANY OF THIS. YALL LOVE ATMOSPHERE AND ALL THESE OTHER TERRIBLE RAPPERS. PLEASE STOP CULTURE VULTURES.
man, all you white boys with your white boy rap suck. no one cares about Charli 2NA. NO ONE CARES ABOUT ANY OF THIS. YALL LOVE ATMOSPHERE AND ALL THESE OTHER TERRIBLE RAPPERS. PLEASE STOP CULTURE VULTURES.
Jeez I’m sick of that “it ain’t like it used to be” BS. Everything was better before, back in the old days, when a house cost a nickle!
The main reason the old artists were so big is that at the time there was just a fraction of the amount of music being made, compared to today. Plus, all that old music ain’t that great anyway. Times change, deal with it.
Music is broken down into two parts theres pop music that is generally non offensive sometimes catchy and excepted by most people cause it doesnt contain language or a political aganda or just doent make you feel like you wanna fuck some shit up when you play it. Stuff you can play at Dennys or at Macys then there is everything else
As a Hip Hop fan I cant wait til this Rap sh** dies. The media is giving autistic people like Lil Yachty and Chief keef exposure, making them out to be great and what not. We have dudes dressing in skirts and thongs. Its not Rap or Hip Hop anymore. I cant wait til it dies so people do it only for the love of it
Rock isn’t dead, its simply taken on a form that he and people like him don’t have an affinity for. Think Axl Rose and alternative rock. Hell back in their day, even though they’re worshiped now, Elvis and Beatles fielded heavy criticism for their music and performance. It’s the same thing with rap. Although they’re now hailed as the greatest rappers that ever lived, when Run-DMC, NWA, and Public Enemy were doing their thing, you had people saying rap was dead. When Biggie, Nas, Wu-Tang, Bones, and Tupac were doing their thing, you had people saying rap was dead. And now that Chance the Rapper, Drake, Future, J. Cole, Kid Cudi and Danny Brown are doing their thing, sure enough, you got people saying rap is dead. Just look at the comments. It’s just how it works.
the only rapper in your current list that is even worthy of a mention is Jcole…the rest can rot…might take danny brown, but his voice is so fuckin annoying.
Hiphop been dead for ages….these new clowns can’t hold anything down.
LOL Hip-Hop will never die. Every year there’s something new brought to the table when it comes to rap.. Maybe Rock, but not Hip-Hop. Rock needs to come back with dope acts like Metallica, Kiss, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Creed, Rage Against The Machine, etc. we need that back. I love that classic Rock
He played bass dumbass.
Thanks Loc Dogg! Gene Simmons is anti Gentile.