CTC
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- Oct 9, 2014
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It's Weird how we haven't had a rap/hip hop station considering how popular rap has been since the late 80s. I went to high school in the early to mid 2000s. Every party you went to was blasting rap. Yet no radio station.
The biggest money makers in music were names like Eminem, 50 cent, snoop Dogg, Ludacris, exhibit, ice cube, Jay z, p diddy, the game, dmx, etc yet no radio station. Rap was making more than any genres. Top rappers in their primes brining in as much if not more revenue than pop stars christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, usher, Justin Timberlake...yet no radio station.
They would sell out every time they came to Ottawa...yet no radio station.
It's just weird. There's a serious market there.
The issue I think really comes down to lyrics, I was in the end of high school and start of college back during the time you mentioned and the music at parties was spot on but for a lot of rap songs there is a lot of swearing, violence, drug glorification, etc. Radio could never really play it given the amount of before mentioned topics, same goes for a lot of hard metal at the same time, plus radio edits of the songs you really like are just not the same.