When people forget pump it up was essentially a left over track no one wanted...
Anytime someone says "This generation" they usually come up with some ridiculously statistic they pulled from their ass or really just use twisted fallacy after another.
It's rap, not much has change...trash artists have been just as successful back in the day (Vanilla Ice,
Heavy D, Fred Durst, etc).
This "altercation" is about as lightskin as you can get. The ex-coke fiend poet is letting his drug flashbacks get in the way of his making money. So he rather instead, burn every last bridge and go out as a pill popping pariah...yeah that's keeping it real...