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“White people might buy 80 percent of hip-hop records today, but I don’t think they’re as big a percentage of the tastemaking crowd. If you get an underground record that’s really cool and innovative, the initial audience might be 40 percent white. There’s also a diverse group of black people who are part of that audience, including black people who are not from the same background as the obvious ghetto one. The key is that all of these different groups make up the core tastemaking crowd.” –Russell Simmons, Life And Def

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“Conventional wisdom, for once, turns out to be mostly correct—with the caveat that there’s a lot we don’t know about race and Rap sales,” wrote Bialik. “Each year, MRI researchers go into about 25,000 homes nationwide and talk to residents for an hour about their media habits…Among the questions MRI asks is whether the respondent purchased pre-recorded Rap audio tapes and compact discs in the last 12 months. MRI sent me the results for 1995, 1999 and 2001, for both adults 18 to 34 and for all adults. For both groups, the percentage of recent Rap buyers who are white was about 70% to 75% for all three years

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You am buy that?

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