Sorry Ron, I'm trying like hell to understand your point but I'm with Rick. I understand how Hitler, Thatcher, Bush, Bin Laden etc build their opinions and ideas, I understand their environment, but I ain't walking an inch in their shoes. Sometimes you have to judge and find guilty and the guilty don't get my respect. Neither does the local racist, bigot, etc.Respect, I was brought up to understand, is a thing that has to be earned.There are musicians whose music does little for me but they have my respect as being damned good at doing what doesn't turn me on, but coming back to rap, I can't respect someone who does something I actively believe is harmful,dumbed down, and exploitative, as a lot of it is.(Not all.)