>>17838031 (OP)“Black music” didn’t devolve. It was deconstructed by design. Early African-American musical traditions were rooted in profound spiritual, philosophical, and emotional expressions, like the negro spirituals, which were encoded hymns of metaphysical longing and coded resistance, and jazz, which when properly understood (think Coltrane, not Cab Calloway) embodied improvisational creativity and lawful development in the Platonic sense.
What you call “degeneracy” is what happens after monetarist record executives, social engineers, and algorithmic parasites repackaged real cultural forms into mass-market commodities designed to stimulate base impulses while suppressing the cognitive faculties. You’re not watching black culture decline. You’re watching oligarchical culture succeed through exploitation of race, class, and libido to disintegrate the population's moral and aesthetic compass. The same happened to white music, see what happened to classical, then rock, then country, then pop. You think trap is uniquely degenerate? The same production teams write for country radio and SoundCloud.
Blame black people all you want but that’s how empire likes it. Meanwhile, Hollywood financiers, marketing psychologists, and Pentagon-approved media platforms continue to flood every genre with sonic junk food calibrated to keep the brain at war with itself.