Kelefa Sanneh the best hip-hop critic ever?

Can you think of any other rap critic who'd start a review of the new 50 Cent album like this?
'In his book "What's the Matter With Kansas?" the liberal writer Thomas Frank argues that conservative politicians have come to rely on a brazen bait-and-switch strategy. He says that they often champion "old-fashioned values" while campaigning, only to turn their attention to economic issues once elected. "The trick never ages, the illusion never wears off," he writes, contending that voters who say they care about, for example, abortion often wind up electing representatives who seem more interested in reducing the capital-gains tax. He's mystified - or, more accurately, horrified - by this seemingly paradoxical system: "Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes." Despite the book's widespread success, there is no evidence to suggest that the rapper 50 Cent is among the armchair political scientists who have bought it. Still, its central argument might sound familiar to anyone following his career.' Greg Tate, eat your heart out.