You can say it's "segregated" but we are talking about 2024, the era where most of the current generation was raised with Lil Wayne, Soldja Boy and Lil B as big influences. This is a generation that spent it's teenage years during the prime of mumble rap. Young Moneys top 3 being the biggest influence is the "Hip Hop" that they know. This generation doesn't know about pop locking and head spins or hardcore rap songs with no cursing. The Hip Hop we were raised on is not the Hip Hop this current generation was raised on. Mr Magic and The Source magazine are dead in this era. Akademiks is the Mr Magic and Source magazine of this current era.
Hiphop culture was never prevalent.
It was misappropriated.
Since it's inception.
From art houses.
Then transistioned as a blockbuster draw from movies to music.
grafitti was misappropriated orig8nally and completely ruined as a mainstream viable component. While the entirety of its pillar and artistic expression was misappropriated.
pbs specials to wild style.
details this as its undercurrent. Yet the next foray in film after wild style that was mainstram.
Beatstreet was a bait and switch.
that visually misappropriated everything it could see fit. With no mainstream resistance. till breaking as a gateway. Fought back against Classically trained misappropriation.
The first rap group in the mairstream was a fraud.
Plus completely welled in the mca way. That an entire new school way of thought emerged. To keep misappropriation from occurring in the future. Yet has been never been allowed in a major label construct or big business. To ever allow any kernel of mores or norms of hiphop culture to be established snd have any prevalence in the mainstream what soever.
Like I said.
Hiphop is the only culture. Where someone gets to come tell a real culture based person. How and what their culture is. While never being apart of.
Or even a historian.
nor knowledgeable about said culture.
@Plankton
Case in point.
What chu write
If you lost at that question.
You not apart of hiphop.
Art Barr