1. That's what it was founded on, but art evolves, you can look at damn near any other artform and see evolution from what it primarily was. Rap is relatively young so most hip hop heads are ignorant to that fact or choose to delude themselves into thinking rap is gonna be the one outlier that stays the same. That idea is actually lowkey toxic because the average person is typically gonna interpet it as "rapping/basketball is the only way to overcome my struggle" and they essentially put themselves in a box, we already see this in communities.
That or they just get stuck in a loop of talking about their struggles and not talking about realistic ways to get out of it, which starts by creating an optimistic outlook
2. No way in hell you gonna tell me hip hop is concerned with authenticity gicen the currently climate, WAY too many fake nikkas to point to ti debunk this
Prodigy a "legend" yet he's KNOWN for being a fake tough
ass nikka
