50 years of Hip Hop- How Come?

There's jazzy hip-hop and descent band line-up at the band camp on those style. 

Mac Miller was pretty good and talented.

Nubya Garcia is pretty much jazzy hip-hop artist as well.

Some of Robert Glasper's recent stuff integrates all genre's...except death metal and polka.

Death Metal Polka. I just found my new career….

Hip Hop is like Urban folk/punk. The stories are amazing. Ive listened to hip-hop for well over 30 years. Im an old school chicago graff writer, before every painting mission, whether rooftops or trainyards- wed get pumped to the Artifacts - and was even in the same crew as Common - UAC. From Tribe Called Quest to WuTang to Necro - hip hop is a real, viscerol and touching fringe art. You dont have to love it - but you cant deny it. In the 90s hip hop was life.
Diggable Planets, Del, Artifacts, Wu-f#cking-tang, Guru, Necro, Old Dirty Bastard, Atmosphere, Slick Rick, Lords Of Brooklyn etc etc etc - history.

Totally agree with your assessment and I've often wondered the same thing. I've lived through the mellow/rock of the '70s, disco, New Wave and House in the 80s/90s, Euro, EuroNRG, HiNRG, Trance, Ambient and so on. They all come and go but Hip Hop is still here. Not sure why. It's not for me but that's fine. I thought Hip Hop came about in the 80s? If it's 50 years old, it would have started in the early 70s, correct? I don't remember Hip Hop in the early 70s. Personally, my fav genres were New Wave and House.