1992/Last Good Year for New Music?

I’m on the record saying, I don’t like hip hop or rap produced after 1992, C. Delores Tucker. More accurately, the change in hip hop and rap I witnessed in 1992 turned me off. Its trend for gratuitous sex and violence persists to this day.

According the Billboard charts in 1992, this may have also been around the time I stopped buying new music. When Tower Records went out of business in 2006, I was only buying records (often used) produced in the 80s.

In 1992, the music industry became a monopoly with Sony consuming the medium and more free thinking labels. Unsigned, independent and even underground, were words used to describe many of my peers who were desirous of a record deal but not planning on going through the system.