[ExI] large hadron rap

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 18:40:22 UTC 2008


On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:03 PM, spike wrote:
> I went on a solo cross country trip last summer and found to my delight that
> rap and hiphop had suddenly disappeared from the radio dial.  I searched it
> regularly all the way across the nation for four days and never did find a
> single instance of rap or hiphop (are those the same?).  Evidently the
> advertisers decided in unison something I was thinking for some time: that
> the messages of rap was psychologically destructive as hell, especially to
> the young black community.
>


Could it be that FM radio (sometimes called local radio) has a pretty
short broadcast range and rap is only broadcast in big cities where
there is a large enough community to support it?


BillK



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