I suspect you got the idea for this from my other
post, where I made the point about Mos Def


The problem with this is that "streetness" is incorrectly
associated with crime in hip-hop and that's sort of a shame,
and is what changed rap into a minstrel show

Black Thought might be the most "street" rapper ever, if
we're being honest. He's not less "street" than Beanie,
for example.