I could get a lot more in depth with this but I'll be blunt. Ask 100 random black people who their favorite artists are. How many times do you think the Roots and Common show up? I don't live in NY so the only time I hear them on the radio is past midnight on college radio, when most people are at the club. If they got so much exposure they would sell 3 and 5 million everytime like Jigga and X. I wasn't hating on black people. I love my culture, I am just saying over our history what is diffrent isn't always readily accepted. Hip-hop was something different but hip-hop is so vast and large that because of the media and other factors many times the watered down material of the Hot Boys and others gets more airplay than "true" hip hop. The fact is that lately it seems like some black people would rather shake their ass than be enlightened and that's the truth. As far as I am concerned.