I can't speak on his music because I haven't heard it but you are right about the "hood rapper" not understanding these things. But you know what? It also extends to regular rappers or people who don't know anything about the technical aspect music. There was an artist, I'm not going to say the artists name, but he had me mix a record, it was on the radio, everyone heard it. He wanted the shit pinned to the red, squashed to death, no dynamics whatsoever. I told him I would give him two versions, one at like -0.2db and one with a bit of headroom so the radio stations wouldn't have to run the limiter too hard. The radio chose the version with headroom.