I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.