technology doesn't homogenize culture? the Internet hasn't homogenized American POPular culture to previously unattained levels of singularity?

most of the country is like NY or is the tristate/NE region have it's own thing going on?

Is Georgia and Texas more alike than NY and DC? hell yeah

so as culture becomes homogenized... how could something that was never really a pop music (ny golden age hip hop) now just suddenly become popular or resonate with most of America when it was never that

now rap is big business. cats must compete. do you not have to defer to the pop culture? and that's not saying cats should make that decision but market pressures are what they are