As a white suburbanite (and I am not ashamed to be a white suburbanite), I find rap and hip-hop to be inaccessible and juvenile in the extreme.  I am not nor do I aspire to be a playa from the hood, so rap does not speak to me on any level.  I understand that each generation finds its rebellious voice in new and provocative music, and rap is the rebellious music of the current generation of youth, but it strikes me as decidedly disingenuous considering that most of the white suburbanite kids who buy and listen to rap would not last five minutes in the real hood.

O Brother Where art Thou, phenomenal soundtrack. i am a man of constant sorrow pulls the movie together. Overall this is a good list for the 21st century, I'd like to see a all time best 150.

got it... and listened to it more than a million times .......