The Beatles vs NWA

I recently got into a debate with several students about the opinion of who was better and more influential to their respective time period. Was it the Beatles for the sixties or the rap group NWA for the nineties? I was shocked by their reaction. It was as if I had a cross and they were vampires. Why are the Beatles so protected? I made the case that NWA gave birth to many people's careers and the Beatles did none of that. When you look back at some of what NWA had to deal with to get their music heard, the Beatles had it easy. I think it goes back to the liberal thinking in public schools. It all starts at the young age of 5. That all music can give thanks to the Beatles, before and after the Beatles. And if you question it you can get shot. I'll do a little comparison between the two. This of course is only my opinion.
I'll start with the Beatles. Formed in 1960, the sound they started with is rock that was popular in the 1950s. After they rode that for all it was worth they hopped on the "Hippie Bandwagon" and took that as far as it could go.Then they broke up. Ultimately selling more than 1 billion albums and becoming the world's biggest money making music group of all time. Leading to my theory that they are and always will be the biggest sellouts. Never doing their own thing but copying the next big thing. But what have they done for music? They didn't change a thing. Everyone seems to want to make you believe that the Beatles are the be-all-end-all of music, but they aren't. The hippie movement made so many millionaires that it would put Microsoft to shame. They would let you believe that it was all about peace and love and caring for each other. When really it's about corprate greed and raping people's pockets.
Now on to NWA. NWA was formed in 1986. They consisted of Dr.Dre, Eazy E, Ice Cube, Mc Ren, The D.O.C and DJ Yella. From their first album "NWA and the Posse" to their last ep "100 Miles and Running", they never received any airplay. They never had the media show up during any airplane landing. Their videos were never in any cycle on MTV. And they never met any Kings, Presidents or Heads of State. Yet they prevailed and sold hundreds of millions of albums. You can make the argument that rap was popular already but you have to remember that before them rap was positive and ruled by the New York influence. Where as the Beatles already had an audience, NWA had to create one. Yes they were obnoxious, overwhelming and not what you would call mainstream, but they changed the music industry forever. Rap music was not the only one to change from their influence. Bands such as Beck, Korn, Limpbizkit, Rage Against the Machine, Sublime, 311, are just a few out of hundreds of others. They made it so that white suburban kids can listen to rap without feeling inferior. They launched the careers of the likes of artist such as Snoop Dogg, Warren G,Eminem and they were direct results of their style of rap. When have you seen the Beatles in any movie(other than the bubblegum pop movies about a submarine) but I bet you have seen at least one with Ice Cube in it.
So America, this is the one of the many problems I have with higher education. They would let you believe that the social and musical experiment of the sixties was so important and that they are responsible for the grand enlightenment, but really it was a big stinky waste of time. Nothing positive came out of it. All the talk of this "higher utopia of a generation" that the left pushes on you is nothing but lies and fluff. Remember Jim Jones?
Try this for an experiment, go up to someone, preferably a liberal and say that NWA was better than the Beatles. See the reaction you get. I do it for fun.