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Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!
please. Just because it's underground doesn't make it worth listening to. Most of it is underground because it belongs there. Buried. I think people judge talent by what moves them, they judge mainstream by what makes them dance and sing along.
The way art (if you're going to use the term), in general, works is people make something new or interesting, sell a lot of it, then do more of the same as the new generation tries to improve or change the prevailing genres.
In terms of rap, the sound from say, the Sugarhill Gang, evolves into Run DMC and Grand Master Flash, who were then replaced by groups like 2 Live Crew, NWA, and (yes) Salt-n-Pepa. the art becomes edgier, more confrontational, more realilistic, softer, more appealing, watered down.
What's underground, becomes mainstream, and a new genre/style emerges as underground. And not everyone is going to make millions or sell millions, because the market cannot support the volume. If people "do it for the art and not for the cash & women" then why would they care about what's mainstream..
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In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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