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22. Well, the same is true for any genre

General rule, if you're haring it on the radio, it's not the good stuff. Even that has exceptions - Tupac is Rap's Johnny Cash, literally everything he made is good. Even the stuff he made after he was killed. yeah, figure that one out, there's a trick Tolkien and Frank Herbert could have learned Speaking of Tupac's death, Biggy's stuff isn't too bad. NWA is classic, and I haven't had much to complain about from Snoop or Busta Rhymes (though I think Busta mighta been eaten by George Clinton. it would explain some things if so). Hell, DMX and eminem are both kind of jokes - they both try way, way, way too hard to be "hard" for their niche market... but there's still raw talent there (if you can't appreciate DMX's storytelling, or Eminem's ability to convey rage through lyrics, i dunno man)

But usually, you have to actually look for it. There's a huge underground hip-hop scene specifically becuase the radio stuff is autotuned party music, written to be the soundtrack of a shitty music video. A lot of independent artists like Jasiri X, Nikki Lynette, Lowkey, immortal Technique... to say nothing of foreign artists (French hip-hop is simply amazing stuff).