Your entire post is nothing but bias and opinion. You clearly don't know anything about Hip Hop just by your statement and clear bias. It's a pretty huge sense of entitlement to act like you're speaking for an entire subreddit haha.

My friend and I tried imitating his videos as little kids in the late '80s for fun haha. He was never not huge ever since he got famous in the early 70s, even was still huge in the 90s and after while most people made fun of him.

My personal favorite is the UK version of Aftermath - that sweet spot in 1966 where rock was beginning to get colorful but not quite fully psychedelic (a few important cases aside). UK version (the original) had some different awesome songs than the US version, and was one of the 1st rock albums to stretch the LP run-time beyond 50 minutes, with extended-length songs, one of which reaches 11 minutes. The US version is great too, but I miss the removed songs, and the run-time is shorter. If I had to choose their overall best, I'd go with Exile on Main St.

It basically took over internationally as the "voice of the people" more than other current genres, and is a newer artform. Electronic music is a huge influence in popular music around the world, too.