Adam Levine says rap is responsible for all innovations in the music industry – Rolling Stone

For the headlines to announce, the day of rock in the commercial sun is over. Hip-hop and R & B are the most popular musical genres in the United States. Hip-hop also captured 71% of Display panel Top 100 of the top 100 in the third quarter this year. There are many other statistical examples of the progress of rap compared to traditional rock. This week, Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine, whose career was launched by the sweetest facets of rock radio, has been enriched.

"What's unique about this band is that we've always used hip-hop, R & B, all forms of rhythmic music, since the time we wrote our first album. Rock music is nowhere, really, "said Levine Variety. "I do not know where he is. If so, no one invites me to the party. All the innovations and incredible things that happen in music are in hip-hop. It's better than everything else. Hip-hop is strange and avant-garde, flawed and real, and that's why people like it. "

It makes sense that Levine knows where the music industry is heading. "Girls Like You", who presented the event of the year in Cardi B, spent seven weeks in the first place of the Hot 100. Levine admits in the interview that he has "Begged" the Violation of privacy rapper to appear on the song and described his role as "essential" to his success.

Just this week, fifty percent of the Hot 100 – "Sicko Mode", "Mo Bamba", "Lucid Dreams", "Drip Too Hard", "ZEZE" – is composed of hip-hop songs. None of them sounds the same. Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode", which includes Drake and Swae Lee, includes three time switches, three samples, and cuts the feature film of the greatest artist at its peak. "Lucid Dreams" features Sting's "Shape of My Heart" in 1993, while "Drip Too Hard" is a West-inspired journey reminiscent of two Atlanta rappers.

So, taking Levine is hot, but she is not hot. Earlier in the discussion, he also exposed the current state of rock music and spoke harshly to the RIAA.

"Apparently, being in a group is against the law at this point. Groups that are currently in the pop landscape – or have survived this landscape – who are they? Imagine Dragons, One Republic, Coldplay and Maroon 5. This is your category of the best group. The Grammys had to change category because there was no group. Now everything [featured artist] can do it. Damn, we cornered the market – so you told us, Grammys!