You want me to listen to a bunch of cRAP by a person who claims to be on the cutting edge and from the streets who is paid millions and rides around in a limo? cRAP music is one of the biggest scams perpetrated on the American entertainment scene. It is full of people who claim to be artists and look down their noses at the "sell-outs" while depositing a huge paycheck all the while. It is right up there with "performance artists" who feel that the only gimmick they have is to shock people. They have nothing to say. All they are doing is catering to white suburban kids who have white guilt. What I find funny are the people who still love Eminenema after he did that duet with The Velvet Fag, Elton John. Was that not selling out?
In any art form there is crap and there are those that raise the bar artistically. Rap is no different than any other musical form. I used to hate rap until I worked with many, many talented individuals who had alot on there minds and brought it to the fore in a musically creative and culturally shattering way.
Rap is the folk music of today, as much as Dylan or Guthrie's music was the street music of yesteryear.