it isn't meant to be understood by everyone, only the artist and those on a similar wavelength (the problem with hip hop is most of it isn art anymore, it's made for mass consumption)

so yeah, exclusivity, hipness and pretentiousness often go in the same box. foodies might look down on others because there's an art to they're knowledge base

in a perfect world it would be each one teach one, but people also get insecure just from you knowing more than them