Your question got me thinking and going to what I think is the root to this: The definition of culture. This from the Oxford Dictionary: • noun 1 the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. 2 a refined understanding or appreciation of this. 3 the customs, institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or group. The first option would be my choice then. There's some "lack of culture" in almost every music style, it doesn't just apply to hip-hop/rap.

Hip-Hop is not a black thing. If anything it's a puerto rican thing, but it isn't. Blacks, whites, latinos were all there when hip-hop culture was born. Hip-Hop culture is a lot of things, but most commonly Rap (verbal), DJing (musical), graffiti (visual), break (dancing). Taki 183 is a white (greek) boy, who was the pioneere of graffiti art. Phase2 (black) is the most inovative graffiti artist from the 80s. Crazy Legs (lationo) is probably the most famouse old school break dancer. Nationalities. The graffiti crew 156 originally from New York is now a world wide crew with members from a dozen countries. French rap groups are commonly mixed arab, jewish, black and white. 2Ban is from Africa who lives in the UK making political rap. lets talk class. Gkae and JA are two of the most hard core graffiti bombers of all time. One is from the West, the other is from the East coast. Both come from a vealthy family. KRS One, one of the most respected rapper was living in a subwaycar at one point of his life. Gender. Everyone I mentioned above were men, but some of the earliest and most active graffiti writers were women like Barbara 62, Eve 62, later Lady Pink. Roxanne is a rapper who pionereed the entire rap industry in the earlier years. Young people were the creators of Hip-hop, but let's not forget the old record executives and lawyers who got rich of of rappers. No doubt they helped Hip-Hop get as big as it is today. Martha Cooper, born in the 40s was the first real documenter of graffiti art on the subways in NYC. You can rap about anything, you can be anybody coming from anywhere, the only criteria of hip-hop is just to do it. Hip-Hop never was the culture of a paticular nation, people or group.