Editorial:

Remember when rap music, like rock, was looked down upon with disdain by many, but the fans loved it and supported the artists anyway...

Before rock and rap became multi-billion dollar industries with glitzy music awards shows.

Well, who decided it would be a good idea or business model to take music videos away from the fans who shaped the industry and force every fan in the world onto a handful of monopolized portals controlled by the Internet elite? Music video views will be waaayyy down!

Lest we forget Flo Rida set sales records [downloads via itunes] during a time when music videos were proliferating across the web like jack rabbits in the springtime via countless uploads on many websites...pre-VEVO!

When fans like a song, they will buy the ringtones, the CDs and/or