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The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards names 2 music genres he can’t stand

"There’s an enormous market for people who can’t tell one note from another"

Newsroom October 4 08:50

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

The 79-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee slammed the two music genres in a recent interview with The Telegraph.

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

Richards, whose 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.

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“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 Richards, whose manager reportedly once “instructed” him to drop the s in his surname because it “looked more pop.”

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