NOS...an Australian rapper would probably not get anywhere trying to sell records in the U.S...I can honestly say that's the accent I've had the most difficult time decyphering, besides Irish, when it comes to rap...these stupid kids here can't decypher people with U.K. accents and they represent the population of most rap listeners, they wouldn't be able to understand an Australian head...

and ya never know if you'll be signed by then or not...you should try out anyway...if you get signed then you get signed by then and you'll be doing ya thing, if not then you get to be on the show...either way, ya can't go wrong...
you should try out anyway...

but werd @ Kon...if they did "rap idol" they'd have to do every other idol...they already did a "dance" show that was supposed to be modeled after American Idol...hate to sound racist but honestly the people that voTe for A.I. are generally white people, that's why all the shitty people like that skinny white boi Anthony whatever were left on the show this past season and all the good people were off madd early, all the black girls and even Constantine, got voTed off before him...

white people wouldn't know who to voTe for on no shit like that...they'd botch it all up, it'd never work unless that shit was on BET and even then, you'd have a bunch of white kids from the suburbs that think they know anything about talent in rap vTing for the person talking about cars and ice the most, therefore botching it up...something like "Rap Idol" would never be successful and have any kind of legitimiZed credibility for a "true emcee"...

did I say an Australian won't make it?...if I did I didn't mean it "like that"

I meant it's unlikely that people will understand 'em and that'd be a reason they probably would not sell...I never said that has ANYTHING to do with their skill...I dont' know every Australian rapper...the one(s) I do know are lyrically sound, it's just really pretty difficult to understand and decypher their accents

and OneManBand, you think some FOX Executive is gonna do a "Rap Idol" on there?...how many regular ass TV shows do you see on FOX where even more than 2 main characters are black?...I watch FOX a lot and there's no shows I can think of besides "HOUSE" and this other one that comes on Friday nights that have any lead black actors...I don't honestly think they'd dedicate an entire season of a show to a genre most peg to be "black music"...unless they determine that people will watch it like craZy and they can damn near control every aspect of it so that the white suburban people aren't letting what their kids see on TV influence them to do bad things then I don't think they would...if rap in general was in a better place and off all that 50CENT "let's all be gangstas" shit then MAYBE they'd be willing to do it, but in my opinion of how I see television and percievetelevision eXecutives to be, I highly doubt it'd ever happen on a major non-cable network...