as long as the roots play at safe venues, with great musicains, and play for affordable prices then whats wrong with that. if the crowd is of mixed variety big f'n deal as long as they love hip-hop and keep rocking on to the max, then who cares?<P>budget, promoting affects the nature of this buisness and plays a factor as too whos at the crowds, if black radio stations would care to play the roots 50 times instead of masta pee then you might see bigger venues and diversifyed crowds. the roots went 800,000 with all types of people buying it, i think they made a statement, do you wnat more!?