G-d help us.
Hip-Hop and Rap music for the last 20 years has been a black mark on the Black community and society at large. It isn’t music at all, just a bunch of bad ideas and foul language tossed together. When I think of Black music, I think of The Four Tops, Temptations, Archie Bell & the Drells, Tower of Power, Barry White, The Sound of Philadelphia and going back further, the 1950’s era “doo-wop” music and many others. Now that is class. To borrow from the old cartoon “Fat Albert,” hip-hop/rap is “like school during a teacher’s strike” (both my district and my cousin’s district are on strike now), i.e. “no class.”