Then what's with your reading comprehension skills?
It really has more to do with market saturation and penetration than anything. The big promotional money is behind the hip-hop culture. It's entirely promo-driven, and the people behind all this are very, very shrewd marketers. You can sell tons of rubber dogsh*t if you put enough money and exposure behind it and make the whole experience seem cool and rebellious. Unlike the past, radio station jocks don't just wake up one day and say "hey, this sounds great! I'll play it on my show today." No way. The stations play what big music feels should be played and keeps the cash registers ringing. The playlist is faxed every day and there's no local flavor any more. The industry says "this will be popular" and that's all there is to it. Why take a chance when this system works so well? There's no incentive to introduce new styles of music to young people when hip hop is so fiscally reliable. Overall - dollar for dollar - I believe rock and country still make more money. Look at concert grosses for instance. RMX
Appealing to the lowest common denominator always rakes in plenty of profit for any industry. The continuing uproar over liquor and beer companies that advertise heavily in depressed inner city areas is one example. Joe Camel sold a lot of cigarettes to the younger crowd until the ad campaign was pulled. Just because something is "popular" does not mean that it is good. Some wise guy got millions of people to buy "PET ROCKS". That doesn't mean the product was good or the people buying them were smart. Hitler was pretty popular with his crowd too.
