I know personally, I've built up a wall between myself and hip hop. Hip hop has disappointed me for at least a couple few years now, and its mainly due to its commercialism. Its changed into something that doesn't give me that feeling that hip hop used o give me. It seems as if hip hop has become something that any chump with balls, a mic, and shit to talk and not talk about can "embrace" and flash ass on t.v. I feel like I'm gettin' a little emotional here, but that's been a major issue for myself and my relationship to music, and black music in general. When was the last time you heard someone new who made you feel the way you did when you first heard X-Clan, or PE w/Fight the Power, or Rock the Bells and Kurtis Blow talkin' about Basketball on the radio for the first time?!
Maybe its just the curse of its own greatness. It was bound to happen I guess. As soon as MC Hammer and Young Mc started gettin' radio play and broadened the horizon and appeal of Hip Hop a little of its soul and original essence were sold.