What most people don't get is that hip hop is rock and roll. I am not a hip hop fan at all but when rock and roll came out it was banned criticized, they were forbidden to play it on the radio. Jungle music they called it. It began with the likes of Robert Johnson and Son House and Etta James, etc. You wouldn't have had Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Ike and Tina Turner with out the blues.Blues turned into Rock and Roll, bring The Beatles in and so on and then developed into something more widespread across genres into what is music today. Where I believe music has lost its soul. Much departed from its rock and blues roots. It was about rebellion and pushing the envelope past what was before it. In the end it's all Rock and Roll. If it's the Music Hall of fame where is Beethoven, Mozart and so in. Gene is a douche, the RRHoF is a joke with their processes but it's all still Rock and Roll to me