You should be thanking DJ Kool Herc and the pioneers of hip-hop for inspiring your idols in the first place. Your fave didn't pave the way, hoe. Shut the fuck up.
Cortis leans heavily into hip-hop, yet hip-hop itself first emerged in the early 1970s in the South Bronx of New York City, and it is BLACK MUSIC—born from BLACK CULTURE. It already existed long before your idols were even born.