Question: Why are there so many non-notable rappers with Wiki pages?

I've just seen more that have no sources whatsoever. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_one_cares_about_your_garage_band one or two gigs is not enough. Meanwhile, the reason I ask is because I've seen articles deleted for "non-notability" when the person in question was literally the founder of an entire district of a major city in LA County, is quoted and sourced as an authority in the LA Times and other regional papers regularly, and served in local government, etc. But somehow they are not notable when some guy who literally has only one album on a little label that went nowhere and one of his sources is his "birth certification for the state of Texas" is still notable enough to remain on the site and even to get them a Discography page... with literally one disc to their name? It seems like a double standard.

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