i'm 20, so i dont have quite the same take on this whole getting older thing....but i couldn't help but comment on rap

believe me there is a lot of beautiful rap and hip-hop music out there....i'm at purchase college in the music conservitory and most of my department is made up of rappers (i'm one of 4 folkies...) and in the last few years i have found myself collaborating with rappers and punk rockers...not only recording together...but sharing gigs.....rap, punk and folk have a lot in common -- mostly as a way of getting ideas out there...not all rap is violent and not all folk is peaceful (but, yeah, all punk is loud :) ) sometime, just try listing to the beats or the pulse of the rhymes--it can catch you off guard and give you a whole new outlook on a subject...the rhymes(lyrics) arent just a bunch of phoney words and stupid b.s.---they can be beautiful poetry and tell you a whole lot about what my generation is going through...