I don't know about all the sexist, racist, misogynist thing. One aspect of rap is that it's often funny, and comic songs are hard to write, apparently--I can't think of many really funny popular songs, they get coy and clever without being very funny. A lot of comedy reacts against p.c. codified notions, and some of it is actually funny, to me. I've never heard a rap song as straightforwardly misogynist as Rocks Salt and Nails, or as butt-ugly as Run For Your Life, and it's a tough task to be bloodier than Trad Folk--might as well try to out-porn the ancient Greeks. Rap is a very young idiom, born in a hard place, and suffering from being hyper-commercialised. I'd rather keep an open mind.