How would "Hip-Hop/Rap" be now if Gangster Rap had been a fleeting trend and/or it stopped glamorizing African American racial slurs?

If you know what Hip Hop is vs. rap itself, Hip Hop was originally formed as a means to get a message from the various ghettos out in music form. Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five talked about "White Lines". No glorification of violence in it, yet it told of a soon to be crisis in the ghettos called crack. Public Enemy was also along the lines of militant Hip Hop with their focus on education. What eventually got them into trouble wasn't their views or stances per say, but Prof. McGriff's anti Semitic comments that got him removed from the S1W. And P.E. wasn't an ignorant band either. Chuck was a college graduate and is now a professor on his own and still making records. Back in the 80's most of the rappers of the time were college graduates. Gangsta rap was an "evolution/de-evolution" of Hip Hop. It still brought the message of the streets, but rather than keep it clean as had been done before, it used vulgarity and shock value to get it's point across. Same overall message, completely different delivery. Corporate America bought into the whole "gangsta rap" genre and then they massed produced them (Model T Ford style) the moment the cross over appeal was discovered. Hence today you can hear re-hashed versions of the same crimes committed by everyone and their mother. And everyone is from the ghetto. Man I never knew there were SOO many people from the SAME ghettos doing the SAME crimes, and the cops are clueless. Yeah. Right. Hip Hop is a lifestyle, where rap is a "skill" where you can put words together and they happen to rhyme. It doesn't have to make any sense even. You could break this down even farther, but like French Montana said "Conscious Rap/Hip Hop doesn't sell". As stupid, ignorant, (I can't stand him BTW), he is right. You want to make money, lie, lie, take another identity (Rick Ross), lie, and when you make it "big" get a sudden charge or short prison term (Lil Wayne and TI). Did I mention lie?

As an avid hip hop head I have watched my beloved art turn into something I can't even recognize anymore. My best friend and I both Senior NCO's and MC'S in our on right, have asked this very same question. Hip hop would have remained in its purest form. However money would have come along eventually. Anything that makes money will be snatched up by a corporation at some point. I missed the days of Eric B and Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, Big Daddy Kane, and KRS1. This music was my generations music. Sadly I feel nonviolent and lyricists will soon be a thing of the past. I wish it wasn't so though.

Now into my mid-to-late 40's, my mother still rolls her eyes as I roll into her drive-way. Mini-van full of her grandchildren. I get a tongue-lashing for "playing that crap too loud." Whatever, Mom. The kids are simply being exposed to "oldies" ...albeit the Scorpions. Besides, the kids don't like Glen Miller!

It's. Just. My. Music.