"Hot" and "Sweet" Swing

There was obviously a lot of controversy surrounding swing music from it's advent. Soon, offshoots of "hot" swing (the "wild," "jungle-like" style played by Duke Ellington) and "sweet" swing (played by bands like Benny Goodman's to appease tightwad white audiences who were frightened by the high energy and sexuality of this new style of music) were spawning to target different groups of listeners. However, swing music wasn't the only kind in which white artists took a black musical style, dumbed it down, and "made it their own" in order to sell it to white people too afraid to be a part of the true culture of the music. This trend continues today, and I have a perfect example: The Beastie Boys.
Now I'm not saying that they're not a talented group (though they might not be), or that people shouldn't listen to their music (because I sometimes like to). All I'm saying is that the Beastie Boys took the genre of rap music, which originated in the everyday struggles of poor black artists spreading awareness of their hardships, and made it full of silly pop cultural references and the rhyme scheme of a 6 year old. And white people love it! I understand that their lyrics are supposed to be comical, but the Beastie Boys definitely turned rap music into a joke (and not in a good way).