Originally Posted by D-Money

Usually with rap acts you're dealing with 1 artist. With a band, you're dealing with at least 3 to 5 band members that need to clear their schedules. That's way they do tours, they set aside those dates because they know they will all be available. I do a private show, not based around their tour dates. So I pay a premium to any artist since it's not a routed gig. Takes a little more money to get them to do an off tour date, regardless of who the artists are, whether it's a rock band or rapper.

So rappers happen to be easier to book because it's 1 person that decides if they want to take that date, not a band of people. And the equipment is usually easier too and most of the time cheaper for the sound requirements. Though to be honest when you book bigger rap acts, I pay just as much as if it were a band since they require some serious equipment when dealing with artists that normally perform at arena's and not small ballrooms. They can't understand that they are being pulled into a small room for only 1000 people since they perform such big venues normally. Most of the time, my sound system would be fine for a 20,000 people plus arena.

I hope that answers your question.