<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Sometimes there are gang problems, but in my experience, my peers listen to it because they feel isolated from others and feel they can’t trust them, and like to think about being powerful enough to control the situation, and receive respect.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Feb 19, 2020, at 7:54 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Anyway - Spike, I second the rec for Professor Elemental. (I haven't heard enough Mr. B to say, yet.) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kn9mCeCZzQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kn9mCeCZzQ</a> is an example, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j0eX1m2Pss">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j0eX1m2Pss</a> for one of his crossover works with another fine band. He's got a few albums out, too. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I do like this one a lot better. It isn’t about murder and I didn’t hear any racist terms in there. The British guy is one I can relate to. I don’t understand why murder rap became so popular and why it is still so widely embraced. Perhaps I just am not getting it: are there still gang wars going on and they feel the need to write poetry about it? My world just doesn’t have that in it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>