This is what it boils down to...
To these idiots running (and ruining) the music industry, it's about money. 12 years ago, it was, but it wasn't... Execs made money, but artists were able to create what they wanted. They were able to cultivate at a record label, and spurn growth in their circle of artists.
How many creative artists, have literally "changed the game" in the last 10 years? Sans Eminem, there hasn't been one. Many people will say 50 changed it, but he followed the EXACT blueprint that Dre laid down with The Chronic in 1992. He just used different beats.
The only thing record labels do now, is find what's selling, and push it like crack rock. They polute the market with it, and disolve it to trash. Listen to Lil Jon and his music from his crew before they got signed... Was it crunk? Yes... Was it a gimmick? No. They did it because they loved it, and after the dollar signs showed up, they poluted it to the point that it's laughable now.
D4L is a by-product of what Lil Jon started. They bit the style of music he made, laid mellow rhymes over slightly slower beats, and called it a style. It's a product of corporate means, to produce dollars. It's not for the love of music, or to further the musical landscape. It's to make money, point blank.
They (and groups like them) are a modern day Minstrel Show. They're a joke to anyone and everyone with a sense of creativity in them.
You can respect the hustle... That's one thing. But to advocate it as an art because it makes money is ignorance.
The Pet Rock made someone very very rich. A Multimillionaire... That only proves how stupid the populace is. Same thing with any music created for the purpose of financial gain as opposed for the music. Stupid is as stupid does...
Do what you do because you love it, and if you happen to get rich and famous off it. Good for you. That's how I can respect Lil Jon... I can't respect these ignorant fools who perpetuate racial stereotypes pushing back the movement of our culture, for the purpose of monetary gain. They can take a heater to the grill.