I got the show. I thought it was well conceived. Loved Dre and Snoop doin' their thing. After that, I was uninterested. Just not a fan of any of the other artists. I honestly didn't know that was Mary J. Blige and didn't recognize what she was singing.
I appreciated Dre and Snoop in much the same way I'd appreciate any nostalgia band that's going around. Toto, Foreigner, Styx, Boston, Duran Duran... any of that. It's 30-year old music that I liked when I was in my late teens and 20s. Same for Foreigner, Styx, Boston.... Not because Dre or Snoop provided great music (they "paid" for the parts that were good) but because of the nostalgia factor. I didn't know what all they'd ripped off, just that it had a flow.
After that? It was just a bunch of fucking noise. That one crip walking fool should have been muzzled. He sucked worse than that 'weekend' moron.
Face it. The unenlightened one can talk about crusty, old or whatever but the music of our generation persists. It's still around. It still works. Because it' music. Not noise.
When I was a teenager and in my 20s was I listening to bands from the 1940s and 1950s? Nope. But my kids and their kids recognize and enjoy the music of my generation. And even they will admit that the music of today won't have that same longevity. As one 21-year old black kid told me just last week...... "It's kind of weird. My kids and grandkids will probably still be listening to like Michael Jackson and Earth Wind and Fire and stuff like that, but these acts like The Weekend, Billie Eilish and Post Malone... nobody's going to remember or listen to that even ten years from now...It'll just fade away." Whoever that untalented ass was with the white-haired dancers? He won't be remembered in ten weeks, much less ten years. No discernible talent.
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