There's still a whole lot of genuine creativity and and talent in the rap and hip-hop world; the only real problem is commercialism. So much contemporary hip-hop is manufactured, paint-by-numbers stuff that's just responding to what the market has been trained to buy. The result is that the truly good stuff is relegated to the artistic underground. The general public form a low opinion of the genre because of the mass-produced material that's saturating the market, so they never get a real chance to experience and appreciate the honest, compelling stuff that's out there. Even some self-proclaimed fans probably never get exposed to the real talent.

Basically, I think that people like Bubba Sparxxx and Chingy represent everything that's wrong with hip-hop today. Not just them, of course, but performers of their type.