correction to post no. 1489: was thinking...
ON THE NET...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=rapper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=rappers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=rap
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hiphop
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"Dressed for Excess [Teens Spend Thousands on Hip-Hop Clothes]"
JSOnline ^ | November 29, 2006 | Tannette Johnson-Elie
Posted on 11/29/2006 3:06:37 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Marketing experts like Miller are more troubled by the message behind hip-hop - the violence and the misogyny - than the products being sold through the music.
"Many companies are just trying to get their products out there to the consumers and aren't concerned about what the messages are."
Black males most susceptible
African-American youth disproportionately are hip-hop consumers, the Packaged Facts report shows.
Nearly two out of three (64.7%) African-Americans, age 15 to 29, are categorized as hip-hop consumers."