It's understandable and wise to endorse authentic hip hop artists, but just because you embody the hood as an artist doesn't mean you can ignore how your culture is perceived by other cultures in your music.
RapIndie is a blog and on average, blog readers are not living a drill music compatible lifestyle. Turning your back on drill artists isn't fair to the rappers that don't have privilege, while endorsing too many drill artists is like cosigning their behavior.
Intellectuals (well-educated) artists don't always make better music, but that's why quality control isn't a corrupt measuring tool.
The point is, we do our best to select rappers that enhance the culture, bring cultures together, and make people feel seen. Although sometimes it's hard to do that fairly, we are trying.
In hip hop, your sound isn't youthful or old school; It has either changed to fit current trends or it is a flow from a previous era. Sometimes the most successful rappers adapt to what the youth sound like; like Kanye. Other times, rappers get successful with an old school flow on new instrumentals; like Juicy J. Sometimes you have artists like Lil Wayne that lose their connection to their market by missing key components to their appeal: truly comedic punchlines he laughed at in the take he recorded, his massive sense of confidence, or instrumentals as good as "Tha Carter 3".
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