The Clipse and Folk Music
So I've been listening The Clipse and folk music lately, and not much else. Since it's easier to point out the differences rather than the similarities, let's do similarities!

1) concern with being perceived as genuine
keepin' it real/being a common person

2) primarily lyric based music
(which is funny to me, as someone who doesn't listen to lyrics anyways)

3) spare arrangements

4) music of the plebes* (*see next item)

5) deviation of original genre's values
rap: focus moved away from party music to bling/street life
folk: "folk music" is hardly folk music in the sense that it is experts (and not the actual common man) that play the folk music we listen to. it's also mass distributed as a commodity - thus being popular music rather than music you go out and hear performed on the street.

6) sonic grittiness
distorted synths/staccato rhythms in Clipse and raw voices/lo-fi audio in folk