Thing is....ghetto tech is popular.....overseas. If you look at the shirts of the dancers in the video they read "Jittin ain't dead". Look who's surrounding the dancers. All white folks! The sound and the dances that went with them aren't being picked up. Shit I remember those dressed to sweat parties and when this shit came on, it was intense! It's like black folks (shit americans in general) looked at techno and said "pass". And I've never really understood how hip hop cats never took to it. Seems like a natural progression to me. And why aren't hip hop artists running to dubstep? The rapper that incorporates dubstep beats into their sound correctly has a chance to upset the market.
There are so many other ways to stay "relevant". Shit Jay created his own lane so I would think he'd be able to really get experimental. This "Ghetto Techno" is not experimental.
Man Dubstep and Drum and Bass has hip-hop and reggae written all over it.
The closest we've gotten in recent times are Major Lazer [Diplo+switch] and when Cudi had the Crookers remix Day and Night[even if that was electro].
Jermaine Dupri hopped on the "let the bass kick" remix too. And Electro hip-hop had a small blip with L.M.F.A.O, but they're probably going back to DJ'ing since Party Rock was released.





