White people started liking rap music because it's good. Look back in history. When Jazz appeared, what happened? First it was, well, Black music. So it was ignored. But it was just too good. So white people took it over for themselves, started making money off it, started playing it, in their own watered down way. I'm not saying there are no good white Jazz musicians. But...come on, it's so black and most of the best artists are and were black.
Rock and Roll. Black music. But why is it that when people in America think Rock and Roll they think people like Elvis, or the Rolling Stones? It's the same pattern.
Maybe that's changed a little? Hip-hop is so black that it's harder for white people to imitate it. Some people get into it, but they can't do it the same way. It's too black. So the rich white power elite is content to own it, sell it, make money off it, manipulate it to suit their needs, while blacks can perform it, and both blacks and whites listen to it.
Makes sense?
We need a model to allow us to create new forms of art, without them being appropriated by the white power elite. Copyleft?
http://creativecommons.org/
It's just an idea.