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[QUOTE="boxxy:1129283"][QUOTE="ShadowSD:1129279"][QUOTE="poopshit:1129253"]i think it's more something like "hey, Kevin, these rap guys are sure a hit... i think it would be great if for our next cereal commerical, we put one of those kinda guys rapping to his mom about how tasty it is."[/QUOTE] That would be nice if that's all it was, but there was a coordinated industry effort to blackball a lot of bands and market a revolving door of hip hop acts in 1993 that spanned radio and TV from music to commercials. MTV and radio OVERNIGHT went from showing mostly metal to blackballing all metal videos before midnight except GN'R, Metallica, Aerosmith, and a single Danzig video. If this was due to sales, fine - but look up the numbers yourself and it made no sense; metal bands were through 1992 and into 1993 selling millions upon millions of albums, with several reliably multi-platinum bands out there that had no sign of a downturn in tour or album sales, while not a single rap album had ever been multi-platinum (4 million albums or more) EVEN BY THE END of 1993, and aside from a single Dre and Snoop album, not a single rap album in history had gone double platinum (2 million albums) by then. Megadeth's 1992 album hit #2 and Mustaine hosted MTV's Democratic Convention coverage; Megadeth's 1994 album debuted at #4 with zero advance video play and MTV continued to refuse to play a single song off of it before midnight, receiving similar treatment as Pantera's #1 album that year. These execs were purposefully blackballing metal bands and pushing rap not because of but in spite of the sales, under the theory that a revolving door of rap and r&b one hit wonders was a better well to draw from than bands that sold reliably but could ask for a bigger cut every subsequent album and tour. Do I think executives were laughing manicially about getting to exploit blacks? Of course not. But they certainly weren't dumb enough to be unaware of the irony and tastelessness of what they were doing, which is why the Simpsons joke to that effect worked. [QUOTE]i think it's harmless until it snowballs and you get an "iffy" aspect like whites using the word "nigga". other than that, i don't see any co-opting of direct pain and suffering.[/QUOTE] But that's a problem, it's a slippery slope, and there's really no avoiding the iffy aspects eventually, because of course it's going to snowball.[/QUOTE] so..... you're just mad because rap/hip-hop became popular instead of the music you like? Because the popularity of the music is the reason why it's been incorporated into commercials, jingles, etc.. It's been used so much because it makes money. Did your best friend stop hanging out with you because you didn't like rap? I think you need a hug.[/QUOTE]
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