No. Rap/Hip Hop is awesome popular music created from the ingenuity of the poor having public parties and gatherings. From figuring out how to isolate breakbeats in funk and jazz and disco and use the best part (the break!) as a repetitive backbeat set to the ingenuity of using live mixers to fade tracks in and out, it was people using professional PA and recording equipment to make a new statement built purely off of music. Add an emcee, or master of ceremonies, to the mix and you had block parties by, of, and for the people.
So we can't shake on that one, my man.
What it became in certain MCs hands, the gratuitous violence and displays of gauche wealth, or misogynistic sexual braggadocio, is the most pertinent criticism against it. But that's what the people wanted. Violence and money and #####. A truly democratized art becomes democratized in what it is in pursuit of. If anything, rap tells us more about our culture than it informs it.
Off the soapbox.