From ghetto rats who find it the only way to find 'pride' or ce lebration in their dead end wastoid lives to suburban jocks looking for street cred in their bland corner of the American scream, you can see why it's gained wide acceptance, pumped by the music/media industry.
But I assure you, having lived on Lorillard (just 2 streets over from Washington Ave) to further out greener reaches where I'm back at now, there are many who have bitched about it since 77.
There were Disco record bonfires back then. Maybe because B-Boy Music had a smaller audience and was more localized and underground it didn't meet that level of mass ire.
But hey, like with your other "Why ain't no one doin nuthin bout this too" memes, no one's stoppping you from tossing your Eminenema download files and TUPAC LIVES tee in the river. Just doo eeet.