Rap isn't really that deep or sophisticated or varied.
Nobody plays anything - lots of cursing and slurs - pounding base with lots of posturing - rap is meant to be felt in butt-flexing ways and not listened to with any sophistication - its primitive. In a first listen of group of Olivia Rodrigo, Phobe Bridgers, Rhiannon Giddens, The 1975, Ed Sheeran, The Cure and any rapper and and you can know the rapper in 5 seconds (1 probably).
Lamar, Scott and SixNine are different the way Hershey is different from Reese's and Snickers - chocolate snacks with no value. Its not like one guy is Chinese menu and one is Vegan and another is keto.
I'll add to that that the average rap audience doesn't know much - they aren't monuments to education. Rhythm and bass are hypnotic and aphrodisiacal - makes appeal to the lower nature and no surprise rap has a violent streak as wide as the Gulf of America.
As I said - ALL the most profitable music tour lists have no rappers on them.
If you really knew the arts you would know that art quality isn't a steady stream upward. The arts collapse and decay all the time. Right now its widely acknowledged that Hollywood, TV, music and writing are bottoming out quality wise. Smart consumers understand that - then you have the young rap consumers. There's more musical sophistication in a set by The Cure (hot tour last year) than all the rappers work in a year. Boom, boom, boom..slur, slur, slur
In first 12 lines of Lamar's "Not Like Us" there are 4 slurs not to mention the usual mother insults, curse words etc. Its just junk
"Nail a ___gga to the cross, he walk around like Teezo
What's up with these jabroni-a** __ggas tryna see Compton?
The industry can hate me, f__k 'em all and they mama"
Oh Pulitzer magic is amazing
