Not a big Wu fan, but I'm die hard hip hop fan also. Pretty much everyone in the mainstream falls into exactly that category. Macklemore probably the exception

Not a big Wu fan, but I'm die hard hip hop fan also. Pretty much everyone in the mainstream falls into exactly that category. Macklemore probably the exception to the rule at the moment. Compare with the underground artists like Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Immortal Technique, Shad, Jurassic 5, Blackalicious etc. They are worlds apart! It's such a shame that hip hop has ben positioned as an almost antithesis of intelligent music in the public eye, when it started out as music with a message (much of the underground still has that ethos). It's so bad that I usually have to justify my music choices to people who know no better "why would you listen to that shit? - nothing but bitches and ho's".