It sounds like this is talking about Hip Pop, and/or what is now rap, not the Hip Hop culture. I always thought the Hip Hop culture comprised of the people who were the elitist (but they of course would adimently deny being elitist) of the black rap community. They seperate themselves from the gangster rappers, the sell outs with bitches and hoes in their videos. Hip Hop was the underground, untainted version of all of that. They expressed more of a muslim, black power (more modern, less violent black power of course, but not completly without hatin' of The Man) type black man.
Or you can just ignore me because I'm arguing a point which doesn't really matter, because I'm arguing semantics of Hip Hop when no ones really cares, and lumps it in with rap, Hip Pop, and all.
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