Now I will go disagree with things that I have problems with in your other post critiquing me. But, not right now, when I have some more time on my hands.

>Most things don't start out as commodities. Don't forget
>that the very foundation of this country was built by using
>people as products for commerce. You can bet that anything
>these folks (and others) create will be commodified. In fact,
>young children learn early on to place more value on things
>they can buy or get money for. Expression is nothing if it
>can't be bought and sold.
>
>>"Lyrical content, which shifted from the majority of songs
>>portraying the rapper as being poor, or dependant on crime
>to
>>make money while living in the ghetto, to being wealthy and
>>having the best jewelry, clothes, liquor, and women.
>
>Not every rapper was poor, or living in the ghetto, or
>involved in crime. Even in the beginning it was easy to
>categorize rap music as expression, not something to
>commodify, until the mainstream demanded it.
>
>None of this is new...it's bigger than hip-hop or rap.