Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
American music culture is black culture.
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.