A Year In America November 20, 2008

Thought on my mind today, as the stock market plummets another five percent and credit freezes up again: in 1933 "race records" pretty much disappeared, as its audience got too poor to buy. I don't yet expect a depression, and I know that r&b and hip-hop travel beyond demographics, and its core demographic reaches into the middle class. But I do wonder what genres will be hit hardest by the slowdown.

( Taylor Swift )

( Guns N' Roses )

( Nickelback )

( Jazmine Sullivan )

( T-Pain )