OK, that does sound like a worthy cause. But my To Read list up there already has two 'rap' entries so I think I'm doing my bit...
(It amazes me that Americans can still be so very old-fashioned about hip hop, or pop for that matter - I've had some arguments with friends-of-friends on Facebook about eg Girls Aloud which have astonished me, as over here that sort of argument barely made it into the current century, or at least not unless you're talking to an older generation)