Why do people that are Into rap and hip-hop even want a high-end audio system

So, onhwy61, if I suggest that Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans may not actually be art, am I continuing a tradition of bashing gays?
No, because the art itself is separate from the artist.  My opinion of Warhol's art has absolutely nothing--I repeat NOTHING--to do with his sexuality.  You think it's all connected.  It's not.  Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.  Lighten up.

Too short's album Get in where you fit in. Has an instrumental called "The Ghetto Reprise". He had an old school funk guitarist play the instrumental.  Listen to Mos Def "Umi Says" It's actually the theme song for Nike commercials. Great musicians on that one.  

Calvinj. Im a huge fan of too short.  I think most members on these forums would faint if they listened to his lyrics...lol

Solely for the thumpity-thump, IMHO. Rap might not exist if we had not quit funding music appreciation in our schools. 

Bit what do I know?

Tostadosunidos, I am not accusing you of racial bias.  I am simply pointing out that the line of argument you take is similar to that taken historically by racially bias people.  Black music was always referred to as simple and primitive.  People called Duke Ellington "jungle music".  Bebop was a bunch of junkies blowing noise.  And let's not forget that young white males and especially females had to be protected from sexual rhythms of Chuck Berry and Little Richard.  There's a real history in this country of bashing black music by people intent upon keeping blacks in their place.  Are you one of those people?  I doubt it.  But I would argue that practically everyone raised in a racially biased society will bear elements of that bias.