<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Tut tut, BillK, you just gotta learn to laugh! Moreover, let Randall<br>clue you into some really great Rap, and soon you can be singin'
<br>and dancin' away at just how da whores oughtta be cut up and fucked.<br>(I, certainly, dare not replace the latter with "------", after all, to avoid<br>shocking certain sensitive types.)<br><br>Lee<br></blockquote>
</div><br><br>BTW Lee, not all hip-hop is violent and/or idiotic. <br><br>Most of it is, but then as Theodore Sturgeon famously said, 95% of <br>anything is bullshit.<br><br>It's not my favorite style of music, but condemning a genre of music
<br>based on its worst examples is sorta like condemning all orchestral<br>music based on elevator Muzak<br><br>E.g. buy some CD's by the Roots, that's a fairly intelligent hip-hop band, and<br>they actually play real instruments ;-)
<br><br>-- Ben G<br>