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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.
There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.
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.
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.
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
American music culture is black culture.