It's a cesspool and offers nothing to anything, but I think it's quite sad at the same time. The African-American contribution to art and pop culture in the 20th century was enormous and incredible, yet was shunned or at least vastly unrecognized for the longest time. I think sadly a lot of the "hip hop attitude" stems from that same kind of ignorance. That's not to say for a second there isn't a lot of great hip hop, or artists who are perfectly amicable, but a lot of the surrounding image is hateful and obnoxious and it strikes me that is sort of a vindictive measure.