Joke made and so on. No but seriously there is some good hip hop. Ignore the old crap some people are floating about. Except Cypress Hill, they're good. Kanye. Dizzee. They're better.
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Kanye's hip-hop. Dizzee's rap. The OP did say rap too. Anyway Dizzee's basically hip hop, too, its not a closed genre anymore considering how widespread it is.
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