No i'm suggesting the R&B and Slo-Jam music is still popular, so popular that rappers sample it on their cuts. Chicago is the home of the uniquely midwestern "steppin" community, a type of dance that is not geared toward Rap music, but to good ol R&B songs. It is also the home of "house music" whose popularity raves in the alternative music genre. And i make a distinction between hip hop music and gangsta rap. BTW, Cardi B won one of her Grammy's for the best rap album of the year in that category, a genre that has its own category just like all of the others types of music.( Nobody gives rap more credibility than the people who say it's not credible.) Rap is now establishment music. And black purveyors of it have their own labels, and producers and they keep the money they make, many of them giving back to the communities they came from. Other ethnics have adopted this genre, and little kids don't have to be taught it; it comes natural to them because it is syncronized with the beat of their pulses which throb with the times and, as such, rap is a cultural phenomenon that would be widespread whether it was profitable or not. The music scene is a mosaic of which rap is just one facet. and most blacks like all types of black music. You folks act like you've never heard of Beyonce or John Legend or a slew of other millionaire non rap superstars out there, - or like you have never listened to Urban radio stations.
"Precious" which came out almost 10 years ago, was based on a book written by a black woman and the movie was true to the book. There are currently a lot of mainstream movies out there about positive black people, especially on the black TV channels. A series based on the movie "Boomerang" executive produced by Halle Berry who acted on Eddie Murphy's idea, has just debuted and it rocks. Plus Oprah's channel has a lot of contemporary programming that authentically portrays black folks. Of course y'all wouldn't know about these things because you boycott TV.
These are the observations of an 85-year-old-woman in the year 2019, not those of Frances Cress Welsing circa 1970. To me, y'all are stuck in the past still voicing the same ol rhetoric that is not that relevant today. So we have to agree to disagree.