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**CONFIRMED** Jay-Z calls it quits...no more rappin' GOOD RIDDANCE!!
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well lets say that US is made up of 50% white. 90% or blacks (13%) goes out and buys cds = 11.7% total pop.
and lets say 20% of whites (50%) buys cds, most of them just download = 10% total pop.
no i dont have evidence that blacks download less than whites or other minorities. its just my opinion on the matter that is all
Do you realize how blatantly racist and untrue your statements are?
You have no concept of the economy or even basic demographics. Lower, middle and even upper income blacks are not the primary consumers who buy rap/hiphop records. While rappers have many black fans their core audience is not black, ask record exec for confirmation. Black music has never relied on black fans for its primary source for concert and record sales.
thought i was gonna get hammered here. you being black thanks for not automatically flaming me.
i just find it so hard to believe. concerts like ludacriss, jay-z, i imagine like 90% of them being black. eminem, he's rap, but he's mainstream, and i figure he gets more white fans then black. kinda like boy bands, you see young teen white kids go to these venues. its just the way things are and tahts just the way i see it.
mAdD INDIAN
Diamond Member
Jay-Z is apparently very successful in his business ventures. He bought out a Vodka company. Heh.
Damn him, Master P, Cash Money, etc.. for their riches! They didn't have to suffer thru Engineering school!
iwearnosox
Lifer
NFS4, there's a bass guitar in your basement, huh? 🙂
Siddhartha
Lifer
"He has name-dropped some of the world's most expensive luxury items while never losing sight of the streets that raised him"
It sounds like his publicist wrote that...
It sounds like his publicist wrote that...
alkemyst
No Lifer
Dude you are totally speaking ignorantly, at least you didn't say 90% of blacks can't afford a CD.
There is a lot of discussions on how the middle-classed white male population is buying most of the rap music.
Keep in mind your population figures are WAAAAAY off, again ignorance. Being logical, doesn't make up for a ignorant statement.
Even P.E., as they say from Pre-Eminem....rap was becoming the universal music for teenager males regardless of race, once Eminem came out...parents accepted it, the kids already had.
CNN reports:
In 2000, 211 million people reported themselves as "white alone," accounting for 75 percent of the U.S. population. Those who reported themselves as "black only" numbered 35 million people, or 12 percent of the population.
Now lets just say your 50% numbers work for each: now you have 105 million whites and 17 million blacks, of course this doesn't = rap music purchasers at all.
As a matter of fact according to market study: "70 percent of America's rap buying public is Caucasian. Whether it's teenagers dressing in Roc-A-Wear or drive-by Lotharios pumping Jay-Z down the block, many whites build their identity around hip-hop. Consequently, they take ownership of the form. As avant-gardist Ladd points out: "Now, white people are better at picking out the sell-outs than black people are."
And in 2002, the two #1 black artists were white: Eminem and Timberlake....music fans didn't pick Eminem only because he matched their skin color.
The popularity of rap for teenagers I blame on Tipper Gore (not that rap is a bad thing) and the PRCA crap. All kids had to do was hear about how 'bad' and 'dangerous' rap was and they checked it out.
By Tipper Gore's own 'facts' we should be seeing convenience store robbers happening every second.
Nitemare
Lifer
Woah, News flash! I did not know blacks were too ignorant to install p2p software. (I've been to many urban bulletin boards in which white people were either not represented or were a vocal minority)
Hip Hop/Rap is being represented not because Black's are too ignorant to get the free sh!t. It's because it is more popular with all spectrum's of the rainbow. Hell, we even have our token white guy winning grammy's for it.
How many non-white Rock bands do you know of? The last I remember was Living Color although Santana is still around. How many black boy bands do you know of, thank god none...but New Edition was 10 times better than the ones we have now.
I listened to rap almost exclusively in high school, yet oddly enough am not Black. Although I don't listen to it much nowadays is due to the modern rap song being incredibly stupid and retarded. Whatever happened to EPMD, NWA, Quest, Scarface, Ghetto Boys, and the old LL?
Regs
Lifer
Nitemare, couldn't agree with you more.
The generation gap between today's and yesterdays music used to be a time span of 5-10 years. Now it seems like the music changes tone every 2 years.
Britney spears? Timberlake? Godsmack? JayZ?
Where did NIN , Stone temple pilots, Hole, and Tool go? (Please don't say "perfect circle" was the same back when the band was called "tool"). Their lyrics where complex and filled with meaning and metaphoric statements. While today's lyrics and music are edited and rapped by big time business producers.
I don't see how anybody likes this trendy crap, and not everybody downloads music. They simply don't buy it. Rap is the only music that I believe stayed pure even though sometimes goes off context a little . Thats why I think it's still selling.
The generation gap between today's and yesterdays music used to be a time span of 5-10 years. Now it seems like the music changes tone every 2 years.
Britney spears? Timberlake? Godsmack? JayZ?
Where did NIN , Stone temple pilots, Hole, and Tool go? (Please don't say "perfect circle" was the same back when the band was called "tool"). Their lyrics where complex and filled with meaning and metaphoric statements. While today's lyrics and music are edited and rapped by big time business producers.
I don't see how anybody likes this trendy crap, and not everybody downloads music. They simply don't buy it. Rap is the only music that I believe stayed pure even though sometimes goes off context a little . Thats why I think it's still selling.
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