There's a lot of ATL dudes that get shyt as well.
They would get more shyt if they were selling a million copies and winning grammy's.
Do you think Macklemore would be called shyt if he was doing 10k first week and 35k total like the ATL rappers you are talking about?
The cats from the previous generation like Franchise boys, D4L and whatever the fukk their names were, got blamed for "killing hiphop" let's not act like everyone who's wack and makes a name out of themselves doesn't get it.
He can flow, "spit" and write pop songs with "substance" but he's not a good rapper imo. Brings nothing new to the table, monotonic flow like Microsoft Sam, not charismatic (in the booth), I mean I can go on but you get the point. Conclusively he raps like the average rappers everyone had in their high school besides the important fact that he can write pop songs.