Durk and them Chicago boys definitely play a HUGE reason why rap is in the state its in.
Peep this.
If Chicago never popped off Akademiks and Adam wouldnt be as big as they are.
That element alone is a net benefit. You got crashouts all over America shooting shyt up and puttin it on the internet. In hopes of landing on one of those two pages. Countless Youtube pages focused solely on gang violence, killing, history war stories etc. etc.
Ak was able to transition away from the murder and violence to a more broad scope of the culture, while Adam on the other hand went more deep in that route.
All in all shyt is just bad.