The "nerds in hip-hop" discussion is ridiculous because they all end up abstracting "nerd" to reflect various types of intelligent and/or intellectual expression they don't like. So it almost always funnels down to a "rap is for ignorant incoherent blacks always on weed and crack" logic. If it then circles back to its original premise of "white nerds and execs took the culture out of the game" then that's a nothingburger convo, taming down the aspects of services that don't match bourgeois tastes is inevitable, since all art is made for bourgeois audiences anyways.
Hip-hop is already far too globalized, subsequently curated and promoted to cater to middle-class tastes and sensibilities world over; it's too far gone. These days any conversation that takes hip-hop back to its social roots is hardly insightful yap about how art is consumed in bourgeois society, or other uninsightful, unnuanced, corny social commentary that often devolves into leftie hotep type racism or the milquetoast rightoid kind, especially since these tend to be the only types that fixate on the question, obviously without inquiry.
Don't listen to it bub!
The nerds in "hip-hop" can kill themselves