>>Have you ever really watched Jimmy Fallon, or SNL from beginning to end (I've never been able to stomach it)?
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>Certainly. Back when seasons were countable in hex single digits, Steve Martin was around and Crystal "Marvelous" was fresh.
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>>Have you every really listened to rap music?
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>is that possible ?

There's a way. You sit out on your back patio somewhere in Virginia, and your neighbor arrives, leaves the SUV door open, and you feel the bass between your kidneys (both dark and light ones). There's no way you can NOT listen.

At that point I got the idea that this is the replacement for their lost native music, just like turbo folk is here. That kind of music suffered an age when it wasn't played and new one wasn't made. A few stages of development were not just skipped, they never happened. So this reconnect is kind of forced, artificial, mostly fake and role-playing (sometimes even writing the text for the role, or the whole piece), and is taken to be the folk music of certain folk, in want of any music they can call their own.

Of course, the moment that music started making money, it was lost again, being hijacked by the RIAA or ICQ or NRA or whichever alphabet soup agency.