yes, of course I try to look at the social context of music, whatever music I'm learning about. Have you checked out the post I referenced? I would hope if you'd read it and/or listened to the music I linked up in it, you'd recognize this.

The parallells between blues in the '20s and '30s and hip hop in the '80s and '90s are multitude. But if your thinking on hip hop is consistent with your thinking on blues, then you'd say all hip hop is positive, 'conscious' music, regardless of the actual subject matter, and I (along with many posters) can't get with that either.