Speaking as an ex-professional Jazz Musician and someone who loves 20th and 21st C music in the Western "Classical" tradition, I can categorically say that ther

Speaking as an ex-professional Jazz Musician and someone who loves 20th and 21st C music in the Western "Classical" tradition, I can categorically say that there is hiphop that qualifies as great music.[1] Like all popular genres of music there is plenty of junk though. As Louis Armstrong said "There's only two kinds of music, good music and bad music... and we play good music". [1] A few simple examples from artists that HN folks may not be super familiar with to prove my point: Little Simz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxfGQ2AJHGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxfGQ2AJHGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh8Q2iytzns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh8Q2iytzns Dave (this was live at the UK's version of the Emmys and noone knew he was going to do the verse about then Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the end so it caused a real stir). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLS2IzZSdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLS2IzZSdg