Another Nintendo character loaned out

[A Black Falcon]

That is gangsta rap. Hip hop is not all gangsta rap. Gangsta rap is 50 cent, Ludacris, and other crappy artists. I personally object to those rappers who glamorize drugs and crime. I hate that stuff more than anyone else here, believe me. But gangsta rap does not equal hip hop or black culture. Think of it as country music to white music (that Toby Keith sure likes to sing about dropping bombs on "towel heads"), if more of it were like Toby Keith's garbage and if it were more popular. Unfortunately most people equate black culture and hip hop with gangsta rap and can never tell the difference. I for one love plenty of hip hop (not really much of the popular stuff though) and can tell that difference.

I'm sure you're right about rap, but it seems like the 'harder' stuff gets to be a bigger and bigger proportion of it over time... and I just don't like the style of music no matter what the lyrics are.

Oh, and I can't stand country music either. :)



DJ: Nintendo's motivation: sell more units. Don't be as far behind sales on other consoles. And do it without one iota of support for online gaming. That's not an easy proposition, but this is one way to get partway.

I don't think that it has anything to do with keeping EA making gamecube games... they will as long as they sell. Yeah, if sales go down EA probably would reduce its support for Cube and Nintendo certainly wants to not have that happen, but I guess they just found EA as their first good American third party who wanted to do this... they've been doing this with Japanese third parties for some years now of course. But the motivation is simple... Nintendo wants to sell more units and get more attention to be paid to Gamecube games.