Genres are entirely about the consumer, but discussions about genre too often seem to get dumped back on the artist. If Macklemore & Ryan Lewis get labelled "Pop" instead of "Hip Hop," then they're just a DJ/rapper duo making pop music and there's a general sense that they've lost the credibility that's so central to hip hop culture. Instead, the Grammy's General Committee trumps the Rap Committee (which is composed of who, exactly?) and these dudes take home four Grammys. Close one. Every story I can dig up about this cloak-and-dagger Grammy drama, though, hinges on a single anonymous source, who supposedly said the Rap Committee's reluctance to include M & RL was due to "their success on mainstream radio and their appeal in the pop world.” So just because these two independents from Seattle made a couple songs that somehow "out-populared" the likes of Drake, Eminem, and Jay-Z (I'm not going near that whole Ken