re: The lack of African Americans in Rock n Roll today

Rock lost blacks (and most young people in general) in the early 90's when rock stopped promoting the money and bitches lifestyle, and started sounding sad and depressing. Women didn't like it, it didn't make them horny, it wasn't "fun", it didn't make dudes feel like immortal bulletproof badasses, so the men followed the women. The women went to rap because it espoused the values they desired, money, promiscuity, partying, and power. Now that country has figured out how to tap that market while presenting a clean cut gentlemanly image, it has made enormous in-roads with white women.