I agree. Soul, as we commonly think of it, was birthed in the 60s and cultivated in the 70s. By the time the 80s rolled through, soul wasn't new, the genre had already solidified it's legacy. Just like "classic rap". That term is 80s thru the mid 90s, when more than a few people were still wishfully referring to rap [[or hiphop) as a fad that wouldn't last. Anything made after the mid 90s is just straight up hiphop [[my opinion about whether the term "hiphop" is applied loosely in most cases, should be reserved for the thread titled "Is It Real Hiphop vs Fraudulent Hiphop", if someone ever decides to create it
) because the genre was fully formed at that point.
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