This is a rather incomplete definition of hip hop. Ghettocentricity is the mark of an aesthetic widely marketable, but it hardly defines the entire genre. Even the base marketing of hip hop surpasses fantasies of the Mighty Whitey so popular in blockbusters like the Last Samurai or Avatar. You can say the same of any decentralized art movement, that the Beatles are an 'audio time machine' or just about any inane analogy you can think of.
This is a rather incomplete definition of hip hop. Ghettocentricity is the mark of an aesthetic widely marketable, but it hardly defines the entire genre. Even the base marketing of hip hop surpasses fantasies of the Mighty Whitey so popular in blockbusters like the Last Samurai or Avatar. You can say the same of any decentralized art movement, that the Beatles are an 'audio time machine' or just about any inane analogy you can think of.