Bulletproof argument.
God, am I gonna piss off every touchy white liberal by Friday or what? To say that pop and rock account for the majority of mainstream releases is not an outrageous claim. If I left rap out and said in spite of high record sales and critical acclaim, our defining artist couldn't come out of Nashville and just left it at that, you wouldn't care. If rap was more important than rock, why is rap relegated to just a few shelves in the store while rock and manufactured pop have the lion's share?
EDIT: Snoop Dogg?
You're the one who's making this about race, captain. I didn't say a thing.
Nor am I pissed off or touchy.
Your argument about where the music is put in stores is LAME, so I chose to ignore it.
I was raised on country music and still enjoy the songs my mom listened to when I was a kid, but no, I wouldn't have argued against such a statement about country music hasn't achieved the level of crossover appeal as rap.
Importance is subjective, and if a lot of people think Eminem is more important than Radiohead (a band that I like a lot), then perhaps he is?