I know how to revive hip hop...?

This is just a theory. But what if we get stations that used to play rap like kiss FM to play the new underground alternative hip hop records. Not many but just the best ones. When good music comes to light, that'll draw the currently ignorant into real hip hop and provide that diversity that has been missing. Hot 97 and all the other radio stations will see that it reaches listeners and start playing more concious records.

Is this a fairy tale or could it work?

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It could work, but Kiss FM doesn't even touch Rap anymore. They play songs with a Rap verse in it, but take the Rap verse out, and Hot 97 and Power 105 will not change their play list unless it can increase listenership (they don't want to risk it). Your idea could work, but radio stations do not want to risk losing viewers because that equals less ad revenue.

Unless "new underground alternative hip hop" artist or their record labels can and are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to push a new single (Pay-for-Play, legal payola) , they can't receive commercial spin on FM radio. U have independent and pirate radio stations that play a variety, but they may never reach Hot 97 status. You have an idea, but getting the variety in radio that u want to the masses will be hard (especially when it's not popular). I do believe it will happen one of these days. I'm getting tired of the monotony.

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why dont you focus some of that intellect on college?
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i think it's a fantasitc idea!
Its plausible, but how do you plan on getting a station like kiss fm to play underground rap???
so im guessin ur from NY?
I'm sorry but Hip Hop is dead... : (
Well im not sure but hip hop is not dead like the rapper nas says. many people belive its a fairy tale because hip hop and rap curse too much.
It could work but have fun cause I don't know the stations that are going to play those songs for you. You going to have to call them 24/7 and ask them to play those songs, eventually they are going to tell you that there are other songs they want to play and that are there bunch of people complaining.
hop hop isnt dead and i think u have a markatable idea
Jip hop doesn't need to be revived. If anything rock does. Hip Hop and Rap sucks.
it could work...the station that I listen to sometimes plays songs from bands I've never heard of...
man i'd love it if that would happen, but we are not going to see that. Right now, our best hope is that the public catches onto the best mainstream artists or best major label artists (i.e. common, pharoahe monch, etc.) and hope they get major radio play. Common is not even getting major play and the album's due in a month. Pharoahe is on SRC/Universal but you're not seeing many promotions. There are many other examples of big league artists getting no play. I definitely agree that maybe we should have the biggest underground local acts on a radio show a couple times a week. Like DC/VA/MD has Kenn Starr, Oddisee, etc that they could play a few songs off their albums or something. Oh well, just hope that it changes. I wonder if radio stations actually take requests......
OR we can stop listening to hip hop to begin with. I personally dont beleive that it is the kind of music that needs to be pumped into young people. We as a society need to listen to the words of some of these songs, and ask ourselves is it worth introducing anti christian, pro promiscuity, pro drug, pro sin music that glorifies the "gangsta" life. I dont think so. I think you should sit down for a good hour or lifetime with the good BOOK and learn some REAL values. Learn what should really be glorified in life. God bless and I'll pray for you to find Jesus Christ and be saved from your sins. That you will realize the error of your ways and that you will find peace in Him!
umm in Dallas they already do that. They only play the like 3or4 of the newest or old (like from 2002) hip hop or rap songs
Saigon is dropping a track with Jay-Z and he is a socially conscious rapper... he might get radio play because of jay-z and its his single.... i mean Papoose had to drop a track with SNoop Dogg to get record play......