When "Intergalactic" débuted in 1998, rapophiles rejoiced because the very inclusion of the word verified that rap was a dominant genre in mainstream music and word inventors such as the Beastie Boys were the cutting edge.
First, the trio put up a few of their favorite songs, with accompanying explanations, and then their friends put up their favorite songs, and so on, until they'd formed a community of like-minded rapophiles.
The Beasties would go on to be the ur-rap group, able to please the most unpleasable rapophile while also being the only rap album in plenty of people's record collection.