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Originally Posted by demonrail666
The rap industry is not sustained by people in the hood (who as a market force are pretty negligible.) It's sustained by white, largely middle class males who get off on a certain romanticised idea of ghetto-life. Black kids in Compton may listen to it on the radio, but it's not for them. If anything they're simply buying into somebody else's version of their life.
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that depends what part of the rap industry you're talking about, if you're talking about someone like dj screw then i'd say his market was almost entirely people from the ghetto, if you're talking about puff daddy, then his market was white women who aren't from the ghetto.