No offense to you personally, but GTFOH with this bullshyt. Never in a million years did I ever think someone on a hip-hop message board would be defending BEP from the sellout label.
Being a sellout doesn't have to have racial undertones to it (although it's not exactly even remotely a reach to make the case that a hip-hop act that abandons it's entire sound after making a white woman the face of their identity is textbook).
Sellout in their case is the obvious whoring out on your artistic integrity and direction of your music for $$$ and mainstream acceptance. If this doesn't define BEP to a tee, the term should never be used again cuz you might not find a better example in music period, let alone hip-hop.
Act like becoming the embodiement of what you profess to despise exempts you from being called sellouts brehs.
And for the record, I was bumping BEP in my walkman back in '97 when I first heard "Fallin' Up".
