It's true of lots of genres that you gotta dig a bit to find most of the good stuff, but with hip hop, virtually anything you will have ever heard of if you don't do some heavy digging will have sucked major donkey balls*. It's not just mainstream hip hop that sucks, it's also the layer just after that.
Then you go deep enough and something listenable starts to appear.
Still mostly meh.
*: Don't say "but what about Eminem? He was very popular and you must have heard of him?" ... My point exactly.
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