As for the people who say they hate rap/hip-hop, this is what they really hate:
These people forgot to add an extremely vital word to their sentence: "I hate mainstream rap/hip-hop." That's really it. The rap/hip-hop they listen to are people rapping about being a stupid hoe or saying nigga eleven billion times. They don't really hate rap/hip-hop, they just hate what's being played on the radio, so they automatically paint the entire genre as just being Lil Wayne or Nicki Minaj without doing research into what rap/hip-hop actually is.
I link good rap/hip-hop on my Facebook a lot, and it gets ignored because it's automatically been placed into the same camp as YMCMB. Why? They happen to be in the same genre as each other. There's a huge difference between someone rapping about issues in society (the original purpose of rap/hip-hop) and rapping about getting bitches and being a stupid hoe (what people have been deluded into thinking rap/hip-hop is nowadays).
I don't know that many people that want to look for good music, or many radio stations that want to look for good rap/hip-hop to play on the radio, so garbage like Nicki Minaj is rolled out for everyone to listen to and thus perpetuate the cycle of people hating rap/hip-hop. It's not that they actually hate rap/hip-hop, it's that they hate shitty rap/hip-hop. The sign that humanity as a whole is deteriorating is that Nicki Minaj was made a judge on American Idol, and it's a bit depressing that someone who has abused the fuck out of auto-tune gets to decide whether or not you have talent as a singer.
So if you say you hate rap/hip-hop, at least add "mainstream" before rap/hip-hop because I know that's what you're really saying. It also helps if you don't paint the entire genre as being similar to Lil Wayne or Nicki Minaj, because that is so far from the truth.
