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Like I said, you need more Hip-Hop in your life.
I agree with you totally about how watered down shit has gotten and how acceptable it is to whine over autotune and make club hits with oversimplified rhymes. I'm one of those who draw distinction between "Rap" and "Hip-Hop". While it isn't totally *fair* to term it that way, it's the best distinction that such battle has. Unfortunately, the terms have become more interchangable, so that doesn't work as well as even like 10 years ago.
Anyway, Hip-Hop is still alive and well, BUT with pop radio in the payola department as it ever was, and so-called music stations airing reality shows and reminicing on 80's hair bands, there is not really an outlet to find such goodies like there used to be on shows like "YO! MTV Raps" or "The Bassment".
A good start would be to look up acts like Little Brother, The Foreign Exchange, and Dialated Peoples. Hierogliphics are still doing their thing. Black Star released a new album (though Mos Def changed his stage name, goes by Yasiin Bey now), Jean Grey is a bad-ass woman, and is actually a highlight in my Twitter feed. KennyAlli is a cheap plug on my part, because I know him. Honestly, his studio stuff is hit/miss with me, but I know for a fact that he has always been a phenominal freestyler, even since junior high!
It sucks that you have to do some investigating if you don't know where to start looking, but it's a bit easier in the age of teh internets. You don't have to settle for the rotten, low-hanging fruit and get some deliciousness elsewhere.
Hope I was able to help in some way.
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