There’s something to be said here about the nature of hip-hop & how its essence is the contrast of rhythmic vocals over music, that this has a visceral appeal. Attempts by rappers to avert that, that stop trying to sound cool & get other ideas (sometimes but not always singing, sometimes but not always rapping “in a technically proficient way,” sometimes but not always imitating another rapper, etc.) defuses the key tension that made hip-hop so immediate to me as a kid, that sense of contrast, but anyway this kid gets it better than I do so I’ll let him explain.