Genre elitism is utterly retarded and shows you have no understanding of music.
Music can be anything. No genre is crappy - their chief representatives, on the other hand, often are, and the misappropriations stem from this. There is good in everything, something to be learned from all styles. And why not make a new style if you're tired of what's already out there?
This is why subcultures that follow a specific genre piss me off a little bit - because it turns the music into nothing but a stylistic accessory, rather than another addition to the wide unending variety of sonic landscapes that is Music......
One thing you CAN say about genres is whether or not their focus is most interesting to you. Example - Hip hop. I'm not a big hip-hop fan as a musical genre, because the FOCUS is not on the music, but rather the lyrics. Personally lyrics don't interest me half as much as pure music. But there is much to learn about hip-hop (especially in production techniques!) Despite this, I'm an avid beatboxer and have been beatboxing for many years now with considerable aptitude. One thing about hip-hop that I loved and extrapolated!
Etcetera. I could go on and on as you can see... but I'll save that for a rant on my audio page later haha...