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    Quote Originally Posted by Sean View Post
    I don't mean dead as in non-existent. I just mean from the popular scene, and well when popularity of something goes down so do the number of people who do anything related to them, ie hip hop DJing. Which is why you don't see that many hiphop DJs anymore.
    define 'popular scene?' cause there are plenty of hip hop shows still happing..especially here in cali....its just not the type of music people enjoy dancing to i think... but that all goes with moving the crowd..im a bedroom dj... what do i know about that. but yeah you're basically a juke box that plays songs that people relate too... which is radio tracks because everyone listens to different stuff..

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    I changed what I said to popular genre because I meant something other than popular scene.

    On a side note, just because you're a bedroom DJ doesn't mean you aren't qualified to speak on a subject that involves your genre.
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    i meant i dont know much about moving the crowd

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    Quote Originally Posted by HyeToTheSky View Post
    i meant i dont know much about moving the crowd
    Oh, haha my bad
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    There's nothing wrong with playing popular rap music at a club, that's in the job description. Even if it's only mezo-pop rap with a cheesy vocal hook, you gotta please the ladies, and unfortunately a lot of the ladies that like to shake booty respond to familiar songs.

    Re: 'What happened to the Hip Hop DJ?', I'd say there is a definite lack of new recruits. The trueschool DJs are all still holding it down, but where is the next well rounded Hip hop DJ? Seems like a lot of new HH DJs specialize in one skill vs the whole gamut. Maybe I'm sleeping on the next shit but it's not obvious.
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    and me for one pay homage to greater dj's producers that paved the way and came before me....now a days dudes play dubstep with no headphones..fist pumping on their controllers on virtual dj

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    I think maybe it might be a race thing. Back in the 70s & 80s most of the Disco DJs & Dance Club DJs were white & most were mainly just beat matching songs. And most of the Hip-Hop DJs & Rap DJs in the 70s & 80s were black.

    In the 90s Rap & Hip-Hop became a lot more popular with white people. Now there's more white Hip-Hop DJs than black Hip-Hop DJs.

    Or it might be that a lot of early Hip-Hop DJs saw DJing as a ticket to getting hired by some Rapper and becoming rich & famous. And now there are so many Hip-Hop DJs that the odds of that happing are so slim to none, that people aren't willing to put in the endless hours of training to learn turntablism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Windows 95 View Post
    I think maybe it might be a race thing.
    It's got nothing to do with race and you know this. Way to look like your avatar with that answer.
    that people aren't willing to put in the endless hours of training to learn turntablism.
    This part of your answer is only a smidgen less stupid than your race response. Gee, if only we had kids that could master their flares properly that would solve all the problems. Its the opposite of this. If anything, we got too many wannabes that practice only on turntableism and don't know jack about the music itself or how to mix it.
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    I would also disagree with you, Windows 95. I don't see why race would have any relevance.

    I'm sure the way hip-hop has changed is part of it, cos you can listen to entire hip-hop albums now without ever hearing a DJ cutting but if you go back a few years, MCs and groups usually always had their own DJ and so people that liked hip-hop got to hear scratching regularly and that would have enticed some of them to learn how to do it and they'd have used that in their mixes. The separation of the hip-hop DJ from the music has also led to DJs becoming really specialised, so you have guys that only use one deck and a mixer and just scratch really well, but don't do anything else, like rchecka implied.

    It's just a shame to see the bar dropping really. Hopefully nobody took what I'm saying as a personal diss, cos like I said, there are still DJs that are putting in work and have skills - there just seems to be a greater proportion that are not doing that compared to how things used to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigma View Post
    I've been into DJing for 20+ years. If someone said to me "I'm a DJ", if I asked "what sort of music do you play?" and they replied "hip-hop" my interest was piqued because I knew they'd be doing - or at least trying to do - something cool, rather than just basic blending from track to track.

    Now, I know that there are still hip-hop DJs that are representing when it comes to skills - and there are folks on here that fit into that category - but overall, what the fuck has happened to hip-hop DJing? lol.

    A hip-hop DJ, to me, is someone that mixes, can do some scratching, and can do some trick mixing and maybe a little bit of basic juggling. I'm not expecting people to cut like Qbert or juggle like Kentaro, but I would expect them to have some skills under their belt that separate them from the average "blend from track to track" Joe, or at least, that is their goal. It doesn't seem like that's the aim of new up and coming hip-hop DJs these days - in general I mean.

    Does anyone here relate to what I'm saying? Or am I wrong and maybe I'm just not listening to the right DJs?
    The hiphop dj you and I loved is gone. I mean there are a few old school djs that play the way that you described, but its rare that they are out n about.


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