youre not hearing what im saying. some people make music for themselves, some people make music to sell millions of records. all of hip hop doesnt fall into the latter category. if you look at it through BET, MTV, radio, news, etc. in the year 2003 then yeah, you could say its minstrelsy. if you look at it on a broader scope (the time before big companies got invovled, through diff. media sources, etc.) it wont look the same. so like i said before, *I, me, myself, chienyenwa* would not call it "blackface" that cheapens and narrows the culture. i would say hip hop has some problems, but shit, everyone says that.

edit: im not silly, bruh