Keith Richards Reveals His Dislike for 2 Music Genres

2023-10-03 08:52:46

The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards Names 2 Music Genres He Can't Stand

Rock legend Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards can’t always get what he wants out of pop and hip-hop.

The 79-year-old musician slammed the two music genres in a recent interview with The Telegraph.

Keith on Rap

“I don’t really like to hear people yelling at me and telling me it’s music, AKA rap,” Keith told the British paper. “I can get enough of that without ­leaving my house.”

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Keith on Pop Music

Keith, who says his tastes lean more toward the blues, jazz, and classical music, said he didn’t “want to start complaining about pop music” too, but offered his two cents anyway.

“It’s always been rubbish. I mean, that’s the point of it. They make it as cheap and as easy as possible and therefore it always sounds the same; there’s very little feel in it,” said Keith.

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Keith on his Music Preferences

“I like to hear music by people playing instruments,” Keith told the paper. “That is, I don’t like to hear plastic synthesised Muzak, as it used to be known, what you hear in ­elevators, which is now the par for the course.”

Keith has criticized hip-hop in the past, telling the New York Daily News in 2015 that “what rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there.” He continued, “All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they’re happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can’t tell one note from another.”

The rock icon told Rolling Stone magazine in 2007 that hip-hop leaves him “cold.”

Keith’s latest comments arrive just weeks before he and the Stones are set to drop Hackney Diamonds, their first album of original material in 18 years and the first since the 2021 death of their drummer Charlie Watts.

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The album was trailed by lead single Angry, featuring a very A-list cameo in its accompanying music video.

Read more from The Telegraph’s interview with Richards here.

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