Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends church school church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Personally I just think rap music is the best thing out there period. If you look at my deck in my car radio you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy that's all I live that's all I listen to that's all I love.