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In the Crain’s Chicago Business article "Hip Hop Take Center Stage", by Robert Loerzel, they primarily focus on the expanding of hip-hop music in Chicago, Illinois. Keith Cozart was not a well-known rapper, until one day he became big. His music mostly consisted of violence. He wrote while living in in his grandmother’s basement. He ended up going to jail. Many entrepreneurs did not seem to like the “violent” rapping. They believed it was not a good topic to rap about. Che “Rhymefest” Smith, believed that young rappers shouldn’t make a living off of rapping about violence. He does not agree with violent rao what so ever. Many of the rappers are losing money; they do not make enough money. Many people now download music rather than buying CD’s. Many people rather watch the videos or hear the music on Youtube. As a cause of this, in the 2000’s, rappers lost 6.8 percent of all music sales.


I think that rappers should not put their music on the internet if they want to make profits. A possibility could be charging on Youtube for certain videos they believe people would pay to watch. I would pay to watch some videos; I like to hear certain types of rap. Not so much violent ones, but raps that tell stories. I also like raps that talk about the rappers lives. I agree with the entrepreneurs though, raps should not be so explicit.