Hip Hop at its best is...Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Rakim Allah, And mainly Underground artists...Mainstream Rap in general is a joke...they commercialized Hip Hop and nobody stays "Original" anymore...its all booty sluts cars clothes money...everyone raps about the same shit in different words...have you ever listened to a rap songs and was hearing "Barely" any rhyming, its mainly just a chorus that plays back over and over...Mainstream Hip Hop gets no respect for me...its all about the people who are in it for the love of hip hop and not the "Commercial Hip Hop" ...and what about the idiots that dance around and claim there Hip Hop but i will classify them as "Bubblegum pop"