Every artist who has ever existed "borrows" from others. If your gonna use that as a reason then your gonna have to throw out every record you own. As for bringing the masses attention to subcultures, what's wrong with that? There ain't an artist on the planet that doesn't want success, recognition and money for their work. Fuck, there probably wasn't an artist on the planet that would've turned down the chance to work with Madonna in her prime. You think when she called William Orbit. I'll say that again, fuckin William Strange Cargo Orbit. You think that when he got that phone call he gave one second of thought to the house scene he was from? You think he thought, oh no if I work with Madonna the masses will find out about me, and dumb pretentious fucks will call me a sell out? No. I guarantee his first thought was he'd just won the lottery.