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Originally posted by Shani26
: . But in all honesty you can't really blame the artists entirely because thats what's in demand now...that's what sells...You don't see Talib Kweli or The Roots in the top 10 naw you see Lil Wayne and them ...so what can you do  ... I think we just need to up our expectations and stop settling for ignorant lyrics and tight beats.
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Really, I thuink that is part of it, but I also think much of what sells is spoon fed to us. If "the powers that be" decided that the Roots or Talib Kweli (both of which I love) were going to be in heavy rotation, their sales would proabbly go up. When they have had singles that made it to radio, their sales spiked. But their is no long term dedication to that type of promotion of their work. So in turn, that is not what our kids hear and that is not what they buy.