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I didn't read your post carefully enough, my bad. Like punk though, Hip-Hop is for the most part kind of a counter-culture and so mainstream representations are never going to be accurate. No one who really listens to punk thinks of a band like Blink 182 as a genuine punk band, likewise no one who really listens to hip-hop thinks of Drake as a real rapper. I could be wrong on this- I am pretty new to the genre but everything I've seen, heard, and been around leads me to think the way I do about it.

Somewhat related, the same corporate dickheads that commercialized hip-hop are the ones who commercialized punk and also many other genres. Whether they're white or not really has nothing to do with it, they're just a bunch of suits tryna make a dime off anything they can that smells of zeitgeist.