I hear you, but the problem is for over a decade hip-hop has been shunned to the underground as poppy easy-to-digest crap has dominated the scene and even tried to call itself “hip-hop”. We might have respect for KRS-One or Common or artists like that, but the industry has been only pushing BEP, Rihanna, etc. as “hip-hop”.
I go into venues and that’s all I hear. Pop tunes with rap music beats and mashups with rap music beats.
I agree that many hip-hop DJs have been anti-digital, but that’s slowly changing with many getting on Serato. However, the issue still is how the sound is controlled by the record industry, and they’re defining it as the cheese.
I totally agree me being a 90s kid that is where my roots stuck 80s & 90s. sadly the record companies mold who they want to rep them and put that out as hip-hop and many mainstream fans only like the simple money club and have fun everything is alright or I’m a drug star msg and hip-hop wasn’t brought up on that and that irks me more that people actually love that