2695531, To the people who say you have to be a pop star to be a hip hop legend:
Posted by Zarathuckya, Sun May-06-12 07:50 PM
Music gets popular on the basis of the quality of the music, but also on the basis of the extent to which the artist has money put into the PR/advertising of the music.
In other words, one of the biggest factors influencing the popularity of a song or artist, more often than not, is a factor which has nothing to do with the music itself...
What I'm saying is that a lot of the most popular artists are the most popular because rich white men who run the music industry chose to back them with a shit load of PR/advertising money.
Should the tastes and preferences of the rich white men who run the music corporations dictate who is considered to be true legends in hip hop culture?
See 50 Cent speak on the topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcbqbfi6lhI
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