Agreed, agreed and agreed. I'd want to be very clear that I consider myself almost totally ignorant about the range of music that might be called "rap," and the things that make me reject what I hear on the radio may have to do with why I reject the products of mass culture pretty generally. So I wouldn't want to be understood as passing a general judgment on a variety of music so much as on a wing of the entertainment industry which continually represents itself as democratic, while production and distribution are far more elitist than the snootiest poetry curriculum.

Adam