Im going to go out on a limb, but im going to BLAME the digital media for the "dumbing" down of music. Think about, a really big % of the music in "mainstream" and thats promoted is basically geared towards kids, but its geared towards things like cell phones and ringtones. Also a good reason why Labels are losing money now is that they "banked" on these things, the one hit rap-wonders to sell their ringtones, but the thing is none of its making anything. Its funny but if you take away the handful of rappers who do make $$ (jay,50,Ti) you are left with many who dont. Another thing people dont realize is on a Rap video, that 99% of Rappers dont own any of that stuff in the video, the cars, the jewels etc.. Its all rented out by the labels, and the girls, well, depending on who you can get, none of them work for free, and the top ones command 10-50,000. So just do the math on all that stuff and wonder why you are getting simplistic crap.