Summer in the City

I have a hot date lined up with New York. OK, so I stole that line from Sex and The City, but it perfectly expresses my big-time love affair with Gotham. And while we are on the topic of Carrie Bradshaw, I wanna know: how do you film in NYC for that many years and manage not to acknowledge hip-hop at all, save dropping a track from French rapper MC Solar in the last freakin season? I'm just saying.