> the Belleville Three [0] were from a more affluent part of Detroit at the time Nobody in Detroit has ever called Belleville affluent (or 'more affluent' or w

> the Belleville Three [0] were from a more affluent part of Detroit at the time Nobody in Detroit has ever called Belleville affluent (or 'more affluent' or whatever), and I go back to those days. I will politely omit the lol because you (obviously) aren't from around here. Techno was indeed the music from middle-class African-Americans. It's too bad the world demanded that young Black male artists must act like the white world expected - like gangsters - to sell hip-hop records.