yes we do. That has filled alot of pockets in our communities. BET all that shyt was funded by what was brought to us. No one supports that "real shyt" (what does that mean nowadays).
Jayz still sells more than Lupe
Pac still sold more than Jungle brothers (people think Pac was real shyt and biggie too, and everyone has an opinion on this but to me real shyt is constantly uplifting, no bytches, no hoes, no pimps) but then the question is what his hiphop about. Is it street music telling the story of the life in the streets, is party music meant to keep the party going, is it conscious music that should have you thinking, is it about love.
There's the age old question, real is very different to people. It's not slave mentality to understand that white people still support the genre more than blacks. The proof is the pudding, the conscious shyt outside a few artists , gets very little play. Even lupe and commons conscious albums are sublet with a bunch of commerical appealing songs.
kinda rambled there my bad - good conversation though.