This makes me think of this interview that I read with The Roots' Drummer ?uestlove. He talked about how Jay-z said he would love to make an album that shows how good of an MC he is, with no choruses, no hooks, no hit singles, just a straight album. But at the end of the day, he knows that he wont' make any money, nobody will care about it, so he has to dumb it down. And that's quite sad if you think about it. The fact that a great artist like himself and others have to take what is there artistic property and "dumb it down" so people will listen to it. The current state of Mainstream music is sorry. Hopefully we'll get out of this era where our music is picked by 12 yr old girls and wrestling fans (No offense to wrestling fans, I'm one too, just quoting Moby)