The limit of my hip hop listening is restricted to jurassic 5, The Roots, Dilated Peoples and Cypress Hill. I love a lot of the old school stuff like Public Enemy, Run DMC, Digital Underground, Naughty By Nature etc.
However I hate Eminem, fitty cent, jay-z, nelly and all the commericalised shite. Eminem is the Kasey Chambers of rap music (which is kinda an insult to her). I actually like Kasey but Eminem is just like her.....Eminem is for 30 and 40-something year old men and women who heard 'lose yourself' and said they always liked hip-hop and rap....its like people who heard 'not pretty enough' and claimed to have always liked country music.
The thing that creases me though is what people define as r 'n' b. Example, people plugging Justin Timberlake as an R&B artist....do fu ck off! That prissy choirboy is about as r&B as I am rastafarian! Also It seems like the minute you put a microphone in the hand of an African-American and they start singing its considered R&B (*DISCLAIMER: previous comment was made without an racial discrimination whatsoever. It is merely my POV and I am expressing it)....call it rap but don't confuse it with a style that has produced some of the best known names in music....Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Ray Charles to name but a few. What is considered R&B today is watered down, pop laced, image driven garbage. Destiny's Child are R&B? Hell no! The only person who has, in my opinion, distilled the essense of what R&B is and bought it to 21st century audiences is Prince....hes a genius...oh, and Wycleff Jean.
