I admit to shring your affection for rap tunes....I been into it since ladies was wearing Sasoons.

I know, there's crap rap, but hey, every time someone says he likes rock music I don't start cringing and pointing out the existence of Styx, Moody Blues, Bad Company, Rush, etc....there's plenty of crap that needs to pass the crap filter in all genres.

I still have my original 12 inch from the Sugarhill Gang with my main man Hank on it!

Rap can be eerie, exuberant, pensive, insightful....and all those things that the great unwashed get upset about - - violent, misogynistic.....Hell, it can be as bad as country music, sometimes!

I guess if some chicks murders some guy's truck to teach him a lesson it's country music, and if someone says the same thing in a talking rhyme, it's rap representing a violent culture.

Gin and Juice is bad, but Whiskey River is a party tune.

Excitable Boy is mainstream pop, and Today was a Good Day is Ice Cube promoting antisocial violence.

Music is music.....except for that audiophile pap crap some of us plotz over.