Then you are not listening to the right kind of hip-hop. My favorite rap group is Bone Thugs ~n~ Harmony.
Hip-Hop basically samples songs that have already been hits and makes them hits again. So, in a way, it is kind of cheating, but then again, many of the hits in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s were stolen from black artists, so I guess it’s fair.
Depends on who you are listening to. There is lost of Christian rap.
You can purchases clean versions of secular hip-hop albums. They used to bleep out the cusswords in the 80’s, which was kind of annoying. Then they used to reverse the cusswords which was less annoying, but still annoying. And then they would just must the words, but keep the beat, which I prefer.
I have also gotten pretty good at editing music myself in Audacity (removing the explicit lyrics myself).
What was bad about Diddy was not only was he doing these things, he was putting out music that spoke of God and uplifting things. He attended a Catholic High School if I’m not mistaken, but he didn’t live it.
I remember going to a Catholic Youth Retreat and we were talking about the topic of music. One kid said that his favorite artsiest was Puff Daddy at the time. I was more into West Coast Hip-Hop (it sounded more gritty and less polished) than East Coast Hip-Hop, but have most of Diddy’s albums and many of Bad Boy Records artists CD’s.
R. Kelly is another one who’s music I really like, but who did some really bad things.
But, there is good Christian hip-hop out there.