I played around with them and they are awesome, thedreampolice told me about them and my sales engineer at Sweetwater highly recommended them as well...I had the hardest time getting past the looks...a speaker in a box...lol, but after hearing them and seeing the results of their accuracy, I was really impressed. They are probably the best bang for the bucks over any speakers. Focals carry a heavy price tag but once you try them out, nothing else exists!
Yeah speakers are one of the most important things when you are making hip hop beats. But you don't need more than 2 pairs because the trick is to know their sound at 100 and not to get confused by 5 different type of sounds while making your rap instrumentals.