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Is it just me or has KPWR started incorporating 90’s and Early 2000’s hip hop again?

@cer1992 I heard “Try Again”(2000) by Aaliyah on Power at 2:25 pm and I even Kurput “We Can Freak It”(1998) at 1:22pm. I even heard 2Pac “How Do U Want It”(1996) around 4pm. Power 106 is finally getting it together.
 
Brandon1993 said:
I think it would be a success even though it’s on the urban side of things. Even “Residuals” sounds urban.
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True, though KIIS FM plays "Residuals" too. I think a lot of the Urban songs from that were overshadowed by their Electro-Pop counterparts back in the early 2010s would shine better nowadays. In fact, "Sure Thing" by Miguel was brought back in 2023 and treated like a current hit.
 
cer1992 said:
True, though KIIS FM plays "Residuals" too. I think a lot of the Urban songs from that were overshadowed by their Electro-Pop counterparts back in the early 2010s would shine better nowadays. In fact, "Sure Thing" by Miguel was brought back in 2023 and treated like a current hit.
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Maybe urban songs be crossover hits again like in the late 90’s/early 2000’s as the decade progresses.
 
Brandon1993 said:
Yeah, I’ve noticed because a lot of urban songs are mainstays on Rhythmic radio again. Damn history does have a way of repeating itself.
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That's true. Real 92.3 picked the perfect time to return to Urban Contemporary, since a lot of the early 2010s electropop already faded away by 2015. Basically, the late 2000s/early 2010s Dance-Pop/Electro crazy was like a new generation version of early Power 106 from the late 80s/early 90s, while Rhythmic going predominantly Hip-Hop/R&B in the 2020s is a mirror of the early 2000s when the line between Rhythmic and Urban were blurred.
 
cer1992 said:
That's true. Real 92.3 picked the perfect time to return to Urban Contemporary, since a lot of the early 2010s electropop already faded away by 2015. Basically, the late 2000s/early 2010s Dance-Pop/Electro crazy was like a new generation version of early Power 106 from the late 80s/early 90s, while Rhythmic going predominantly Hip-Hop/R&B in the 2020s is a mirror of the early 2000s when the line between Rhythmic and Urban were blurred.
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Yeah, I agree that electro pop started to die out in like late 2015/early 2016 on Power when Real came around beat them at their own game. I do remember still hearing pop crossovers in early to mid 2015.
 
Brandon1993 said:
Yeah, I agree that electro pop started to die out in like late 2015/early 2016 on Power when Real came around beat them at their own game. I do remember still hearing pop crossovers in early to mid 2015.
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It was October 2015 to be exact when I noticed that Power 106 was all of a sudden leaning Urban again, so much so that the Power 40 countdown for that year completely ignored Pitbull & Ne-Yo's "Time of Our Lives" and Ariana Grande & The Weeknd's "Love Me Harder" even though they were among the most played songs of 2015, the former even being in the Top 10. I made a post about this subject around Summer 2016.
 
cer1992 said:
It was October 2015 to be exact when I noticed that Power 106 was all of a sudden leaning Urban again, so much so that the Power 40 countdown for that year completely ignored Pitbull & Ne-Yo's "Time of Our Lives" and Ariana Grande & The Weeknd's "Love Me Harder" even though they were among the most played songs of 2015, the former even being in the Top 10. I made a post about this subject around Summer 2016.
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Yeah I remember when you made a post about the station going urban in May 2016.
 
cer1992 said:
Power 106 played "The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy & Monica. That one genuinely impressed me because they went deeper than usual by playing a 90s slow jam.
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That might be a reaction to KTWV, which has that song in heavy rotation.
 


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