The short answer is yes. Some is fantastic, some not so great, just like everything else I suppose.

Some favorite hip hop artists of mine are the Knux, Jay Z, Nas.. and I Iike some of the UK guys as well - Wretch 32, the Streets, but then you start getting away from hip hop and into garage music, etc.

Genres are blending together all the time anyway. My favorite type of music is most easily called "bass" music. Drum n bass, breaks, dub step, hip hop, electro, and everything in between.. A delicious stew of sounds. when I was a teenager I mostly listened to metal, then I had my hippie music jam band fascination, then I discovered raves but had to weed out the good stuff from the dime-a-dozen shitty "main room" trance.

Some of it!