Just yesterday I sat here at the computer with a 41-year-old friend who used to be the sound man for a traveling punk band. He was telling me that some rap is GOOD, "not that I expect you

So I said, 'OK, let's read some lyrics.' I put 'Eminem' into Google.
We sat here and read five or six 'songs'...

Elvis may have trivialized 'love' but there's no way anyone can say that he promoted gang rape, murder, incest, stalking, or the ugly imagery of committing sundry varieties of harm.

Beware! The Rap Gods are on the loose. Part of my post disappeared. It should have said:

"...some rap is GOOD, "not that I expect you/em> to like it", given my age/history/bent. He also said that Presley in his time had generated the same kind of negative attention from parents, clergy and 'good' musicians as rap 'musicians' are getting.

"So I said, 'OK, let's read some lyrics', etc, etc.