And another little piece of timely folklore. The local major chain of music stores around here do not display rap albums on their racks or in their bins. Instead there are xerox copies of their covers in the CD holders. I asked them why, and they said that those were the ones that got shoplifted the most by a long shot, and furthermore a lot of the xerox copies have been shoplifted since they started doing this. If anyone doubts the hard-wired connection between rap and criminality, please explain the above. I assure you it's true. You also might try checking out some of the popular rap artist websites, such as www.thug.com. (also true; probably some good links). I spent years watching and listening to children puking out whole albums of this shit when they couldn't write a complete sentence or add two numbers. I did it until I couldn't take it anymore. Don't anybody try to outliberal me on substantive issues, but this is one subject that does not merit our compasssionate understanding.

As above, Chet