>Joey BadA$$ was raised by parents who raised him on Hip-Hop.
>He's no different than the son of a jazz man whose 14-year-old
>son goes into playing standards and puts his spin on it
>although it sounds mad familiar.

bingo.
we're seeing the first artists who actually came out of a life of "hip-hop", rappers giving homage to rappers WE listened to

so it makes me feel someone out there did something right

it's as much a part of the "maturation" story as it is experimenting with different styles