commercial radio has never, ever been a friend of rap. it didn't play any in the 80s, except for ghettoizing it in saturday mixshows. in the 90s, they played mostly snoop, dre, biggie, puff, foxy. the idea that it was once some proponent of glorious temple of hiphop purity is pure romanticism.

drawing a general distinction between weed rappers and songs about weed is frigging bizarre. anyway, cypress hill, house of pain and redman talked about marijuana incessantly.