Check me on this: Many upstanding enterprises start with a plan to do something good, to do it well, and to manage to stay in business by turning a profit. Then along the way, after establishing a surviving presence, the plan and doing good well seem to fade compared turning increased profits.
My recent poster boy for this is Boeing airplanes. There was a day when Boeing enthusiasts wore T shirts with the slogan "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going". Then somewhere along the way decisions, sometimes complex, led to choices like selling 737 Max jets with the assertion that buyers need not incur the cost of simulator training for Max pilots beyond what their 737 pilots already had. Long story short the result was two planes that drove themselves into the ground before the 737 Max was grounded. The poor decision, as well as costing hundreds of lives, cost Boeing billions (not enough...).
So my question, not being a listener to Rap or Hip Hop is: Did "the music establishment" take over Rap and Hip Hop to make a profit with it after real people, using music to express their life experience, brought it to the forefront?
I mean "F da Police" has a lot more legitimacy from some people than from others, doesn't it?