Part of the criticism of Jamaican dancehall appears to be the product of cultural clash stemming from a lack of insider knowledge on the nuances of the music’s content and the culture surrounding said music.  This struggle is something ethnomusicologists struggle with, even within an academic setting, with Bruno Nettl describing in "The Study of Ethnomusicology" how “insider” and “outsider” viewpoints would reveal different understandings on the same music.  Indeed, Nettl later mentions growing questions of who ethnomusicological studies benefited, especially from the groups being studied.  And even then, in "May It Fill Your Soul", Timothy Rice mentioned that even insider scholars required a level of distanciation to scrutinize their own cultures as needed.