What does what you grew up on have to do with it? I grew up on Coltrane and Muddy Waters. I listen to a very, very wide range of music, but I'm not quite sure how that's relevant.
Yes, I do consider Kanye, currently, to be utter BS. Your whole concept of hip hop culture is based off of the whackest representations that are playing a game to make a buck. None of them have much to do with hip hop culture at all. Hip hop isn't just music, it's an attitude. Amiri Baraka is just as hip hop as Wu-Tang. Thelonious Monk is probably the most hip hop cat there ever was.
An MPC IS an instrument. The OED says an instrument is: "That which is used by an agent in or for the performance of an action; a thing with or through which something is done or effected; anything that serves or contributes to the accomplishment of a purpose or end; a means". You know, like a tool, or implement. Do I have to make where I'm going with this any more clear?
This idea that hip hop is "stolen samples" "roland drum pattern" "overly slick production" "speaking in a rhythmic manner" all comes from, once again, your idea of hip hop. You've got the wrong end of the stick. As for asking a REAL musician... I can point to countless great, great musicians who are highly respectful of, and indebted to hip hop culture. D'Angelo, Prince, Michael Jackson, James Poyser, Michael League, J Dilla (he's a producer but he played many of the drum, bass and keys samples that he used). This could be a very long list. Hell, Robert Glasper blew up in a more mainstream sense recently when he decided to blend the two musics he loves and grew up with (hip hop and jazz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25IGnjE-iSM - check the way that cat is playing drums, like he's a drum machine. You know, these INSTRUMENTS can influence 'REAL' instruments, too.
As for the "half-assed rock bands" comment, I wasn't taking a dig at the music. I love a lot of different kinds of rock n roll. All I was saying is that it tends to be rock musicians in shi**y bands, playing shi**y renditions that you wouldn't want your dog to hear, that have this stupid attitude cause it doesn't necessarily confirm their world view. All of the "REAL" musicians that I personally know are indebted to hip hop while making their own music of various styles. I'm sure hip hop artists appreciate you talking down about their entire culture based off of what white america considers profitable (a.k.a the idiots). Hell, I bet dream theatre has respect for hip hop producers.
"Hard core"? "From the streets"? Gangsta rap is what you're referring to and, once again, it's a very small part of hip hop culture only amplified by MTV. When hip hop artists mention violence, greed, pride, lust etc, it's not always a representation of the artist, but of the society they come from. Do you think Wu-Tang, when saying, "cash rules everything around me" are saying money is all they care about? Come on. Yes, all "uber popular music" is whack. ALL of it. That includes all "uber popular" hip hop.
Lets take your notions of what hip hop is. If I've understood you correctly, you think it's all stolen samples, basic drum patterns, shallow lyrical content blah blah blah.
J Dilla (best producer of all time, IMO) with Common and D'Angelo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdZK0HeYkwM
MF DOOM (a rapper who wears a mask as a protest to the image fetish in popular hip hop, who is also probably the most clever rapper today)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4iR668Ki3I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW-9TcDTKa8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpaonSDPw7Y
That song ^ is produced by Madlib, a wizard of the MPC and various other INSTRUMENTS who referred to J Dilla as the 'Coltrane of Beats' and was given permission by Blue Note Records to use anything from their vaults to remix their catalogue because they understood his contribution to the culture of urban music. That's right, jazz is urban music, not white americas dinner music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHMrJNZaatE
Seriously, look up the way J Dilla flips a sample if you think all he's doing is stealing bits of other songs. At least school yourself before you start talking.
The good thing is all these people that I've mentioned are having a positive effect on hip hop. All the guys who are rising up from the underground now are, in some way, from the MF DOOM school of rapping. All the producers I can think of today, and that's a lot, are 'post-J Dilla'.
https://soundcloud.com/chillchildren/lunch-lightsabers
https://soundcloud.com/chillchildren/gardens
^ A couple of mates of mine whose work you've dismissed, and are very, very clever.
Sorry for the essay. Nah, jokes, I'm not. I can't change your opinion about hip hop, but I hope you at least realise your opinion is based off of a very skewed representation of what hip hop is. If I'm successful, this was worth the time. If I'm not, I'm procrastinating so I don't really care.
Damn, this sh** needs to be a sticky so ignorant cats can be pointed here. Nah, lets go back to talking bout Jamerson and you lot have fun playing Sweet Home Alabama
). I personally can't stand him but I do like his father's work. 
