Why can't Hip Hop grow up?

We are in the year 2010 (basically) and outside of a very few acts like Jay-Z and Nas, Hip Hop has this problem with growing up and being law abiding adults. I dont mind rappers still rapping when they reach over the age of 30, but the maturity factor is a problem that a lot of people have.


I mean, I dont know if anyone can vouch for this, but I see a lot of these 30+ MCs still stuck on that childhood minstate that they had on their heyday back in the 90s. From Onyx to the LOX to some members of the Wu Tang, its like they feel that they can re-live the old days and "take it back" the atmosphere and the feeling. Their content is still the same (outside of a few sprinkled introspective tracks) and it is turning more and more people off cause they are growing up, finishing school, having careers, money, families of their own and here are their favorite rappers, still on the same immature sh!t that they grew out of years ago.

It also harms the growth of the music as well. How come I see R&B singers and rock stars talking about real life stuff that their fan can connect to as they get older, but rappers in general still gotta talk about the streets and not talk about the consequences like a human being?

Now, we even get a lot of semi-oldhead rappers like Fabolous, Camron, Gucci, and Jeezy (at times) still chasing the young ass trends and its quickly being the norm for rappers their age thinking its OK not to grow. At some point, the fitted hats, the trned hopping, the gun talk, and the smoking blunts have to be put down.

All Im saying is that, time flies and if we dont demand rappers to grow and be human on records we gonna see a lot of middle aged to elderly people with grey hair and ailing health still making an ass of themselves, and anyone that listens to Hip Hop.