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I think there are more people who pretend to like Rollins because they think it's cool than people who pretend to like techno (has it ever been cool to like techno?). No sense in getting worked up about it. The market decides what gets airplay. The music industry is about money, not quality. Britney Spears has outsold most of my favorite music artists/bands many times over.
As for hip-hop/rap attempts at or mergers with 'real' music, it should probably stop. It rarely works because rap isn't 'real' or traditional music by any means. It's street theater and poetry put to a 4/4 time signature looped breakbeat with samples and sprinkled with jingles. Most of the best raps have been done using these standard features, not live instrumentation or marriages to other genres. From what I've heard, it seems to work sparingly and only if the non-rap genre is the principle component of the song (eg. some of RATM's stuff, Aerosmith's Walk this Way featuring Run DMC).
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