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Posted: 2023-10-02T10:56:48Z | Updated: 2023-10-02T12:28:14Z

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards cant 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 dont really like to hear people yelling at me and telling me its 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 didnt want to start complaining about pop music too, but offered his two cents anyway.

Its always been rubbish. I mean, thats the point of it. They make it as cheap and as easy as possible and therefore it always sounds the same; theres 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 .

I like to hear music by people playing instruments, Richards told the paper. That is, I dont 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.