I don't agree with the "duality" of "ghetto and bass." There's a third (sub)genre, and that could be called "technobass" or maybe "Detroit bass." And the lineage on that goes on before Miami, before jeep trax, before "where dem hos at", before all of it.
Mind you, I like the booty/ghetto/jeep/Chicago style for the rawness and the fun (these newer Chi-town and LA labels leave me cold though, Dance Mania is still the one). And the *energy*! And while the output from Detroit is down in quality compared to a couple years ago, there are still some interesting things being released. I have enough technobass/Detroit bass now to do a pretty decent full set, and while I'll never match the skills of the masters, it's fun to play and *this* "house head" definitely rolls with that. phred
