Who Hurt R&B?
Series: Have You Heard George's Podcast? - Chapter III
Publisher: The BBC
Episode number: 7
Length (minutes): 30
Description:
R&B music has changed. It was once the soundtrack of love, but is now more like a journal of pain. Through this music, George tracks the breakdown of the African American family since the 1970s. He discovers that higher poverty and incarceration rates among African Americans left a generation of children to fend for themselves. By the 1990s Gangsta rappers were displaying disrespect to women - and the market loved it and rewarded it. At the same time, Black women were pushing back through songs calling out immature men, and celebrating financial independence.
Warning: This episode contains very strong language and language which may offend, as well as some adult themes.