Obviously one's career is not made from thin air, but rather discovered. However! If you read my reply it was quite obvious I referring to a particular piece of underground hiphop, that El-p so heavily encompasses.

Juice, Vakill, Poison Pen, Celph Titled, Rhymefest, Yeshua, and a hundred plus others I have heard, are dope! Im not anti-underground. And would love to see them all reach commercial success. But I did not state this in my response above, as it had no relevance to this topic. What does pose relevance to this topic is the segregation of music, that someone who reaches commercial success is suddenly fake. This is insane, pretentious, and one big fucking generalization....