Still, there's a point. Rap music, in many if not most cases, is agressive, violent, threatening music. If you're an observer and not a participant, it's frightening. Punk music is similar - and my son makes his living as a punk musician. The week of the Rodney King riots, he set his band up on the top floor of a parking garage in Sacramento, and drew an audience of 125 or so - plus several cars full of police in riot gear.

To fail to explore the violence of rap music, is to fail to fully explore the genre.

-Joe-