>I feel like there's some stuff here I agree with, and other
>stuff that i'd like to see clarified.

at the end of the '90s, fans of sample-based hip hop were pushed into the margin in favor of the new keyboard-based trend; as the '00s passed through, the style of music was completely irrelevant and fans of such music were derided as backpackers.

now, with the rise of OONTZ-y "rap" music, fans of Rick Ross, and other artists who make the kind of rap championed as boom-bap rap was pushed out of the mainstream are in danger of becoming the new "backpackers", because the current 1/99 distribution model only has room for "white" pop music for rap.

i.e. Nicki Minaj's rise will be the fall of Ro$$, Waka, Jeezy, et al

and fans of that type of rap will look like fans of Mic Geronimo in 2012