You were reaching by the last two. Of coursemedia outlets don't like Ak because he's a threat. Dude is corny but he has a large audience and his own platform and artists have no choice but to respect that. He's a cornball, he's soft etc but so are the audience and a lot of these rappers. The 'culture' is fragmented. Not a lot of people respected Chief Keef and then he pretty much dictated the culture. Drake was a meme for the first half of his career.
I'll take it a step further
Academics is what fucced up New York and I like to troll the New York cats but y'all don't see It?
Anytime something along the line of tradition is brought up he guns it down. Any time you talk lyrics he guns it down. He's pushing that relevance card and its marginalizing legends and what they have done. He tried to make kony something it's never been. Fucc is he to tell New York what they guidelines are. He's an enemy not an asset and damn near single handedly made it unpopular to be able to rap...
Ak himself is getting mad dusty tastes wise. Other younger nikkas are slowly replacing his lane, something he touches on EVERY episodeNo wonder he say's stupid shyt like "Oh that's old", "Nobody cares about lyrics" and "Music is more diverse now" It's actually funny that he usually contradicts himself on his latter point of music being more diverse.