Millions of unknown 60s/70s jazz, funk, soul, & rock artists being brought to light. I'm not talking about Al Green, Marvin Gaye & those already known, but now you see reissues of albums by Marvin Holmes, the Lightmen, McNeal & Niles etc. All this great music being brought to the forefront as the result of hiphop producers diggin' for obscure artists to find that perfect sample.
I have about 3000 jazz/funk/soul records from the 70's all because of hiphop. I started by being interested who these artists sampled & diggin for those records. In the process I fell in love with the music. Multiply this by a million & you have a whole vinyl sub-culture all because of hiphop. Don't believe me? Visit
www.soulstrut.com
Hundreds of thousands of people on this site worldwide interested in vinyl, 70's artists & hiphop.
This is the side of hiphop few people know about.
A lot of house, drum & bass, electronic producers got their feet wet by making hiphop beats & vice versa.
For those who think hiphop only contributed to mysogeny & violene, you guys need to do more research. MTV, BET, & the radio only promote less than 15% of the hiphop out there.