but i'm sick of people crying about how Hip-Hop doesn't get the respect that other ( decades and in some cases centuries old ) genres of music gets.

It's too young. AND it has no real rules, as relates to "teachable" forms of music.


Isn't THAT a "Hip-Hop" argument? "It's whatever you want it to be" or "You can't teach Hip-Hop...this shit is just IN you".


You can't have it both ways.