Spot on Hawk. The final arbiter is whether you enjoy the actual music, whatever your tastes are. If somebody happens to like Rap, fine... let them get on with it, preferably wearing headphones, and not subject everybody else to it. Nothing to do with the performer being black, yellow, red, white or spotted chartreuse. Same applies to "electriceltic" or Baroque Classical string quartets or middle of the road C&W evergreens. If you don't like it, you shouldn't be subjected to it just because the massmarketeers want to convince folk that they should like it and buy it. Tried walking through the local mall lately? Record stores push the latest fashion by blasting everyone within half a mile. That's not because it's good, or black or whatever... just that sales have got to be kept up.
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