don't agree with the list of standards. There are no standards to liking music. If you feel it, you feel it. If you don't, you don't. You don't have to be black (I'm hispanic), I wasn't really raised in the "hood" (my shit is bad but not poverty stricken), I love all music not just rap, never been into county jail must less a pen, there are no gangstas on the street, just thugs, I may not have alot, but I got a roof and a computer so I'm not struggling that much, alot of people are from Texas and they hate rap and wouldn't even bother to listen to it, alot of people that listen to Ro have no clue of who or what SUC is, and every one has (will) lost loved ones at one time or another.
Anyway, point is music shouldn't have standards, music should just be. To put standards on it is to depreciate the value of it.
But thats my opinion. Take it, leave it, love it, hate it.