eh….. I think that's kind of grossly overstating the case. Here's a game you can play - take the middle of any of his longer live solos, and see if you can tell what song it's from. Bet you can't.

I'm sure there's been a lot written about the weird disconnect between militant black rights and gay rights movements, but yeah, it comes out a lot on really good rap tunes. Fly Away by Goodie Mobb being one of the craziest examples, which straight up advocates the murder of gay people in an entirely non-metaphorical…

Yeah, and pretty homophobic and sexist and all that. But fuck could they put out some bangers, and getting name-checked by Biggie will hopefully keep future rap fans looking up their albums every now and then.

The trouble with rap is that it promotes a lifestyle of poor parenting. What I'm trying to say here is: send us some fucking money already Dad, if your ass can't stay home and take care of us like you're supposed to.

It was also the year that I started seriously getting into hip hop, so I think that should be mentioned somewhere in one of these articles.

Aside from the inherent creepiness of this kind of comment, it's worth noting that a lot of positive rap is really, really good, which isn't the case for most Christian rock.

Apparently you and me are both that guy. Hi, that guy.

Yeah… I don't want to be that guy, but this article has a bunch of weird mistakes. The Fugees first album didn't drop until 1994, and it wasn't exactly a resounding success, Jurassic's EP wasn't released until 1997, and I guess Pharcyde had a couple of lines from that one guy that were kind of progressive in that they…

I dunno if I buy this - I mean, yes, he was someone who deeply cared about the studio and was as much a composer/producer as a performer, but he was a hell of a performer and clearly loved it. Given that the evidence for him being more interested in producing than performing comes largely from his engineer, who has an…

Well, I'd dispute that ALL political lyrics have to be shallow, but point taken. However my point was more that M.I.A. seems kind of shallow not just as a lyricist, but as a… I dunno pop culture image constructor who wants to be taken as non-shallow?

Guilty as charged.

Sluggo is Grey Man/Karla/Putacorkinit. And a bunch of the racist clever username trolls from pre-Disqus. There's idiosyncrasies in the writing style that are too weird to come from anyone else (who else would use the word "dogsbodies" seriously, like he does above?).

And the one guy weeping after the other guy dies and refusing to talk about it, then sacrificing himself for him. And so much oil.

The good thing about these kind of comments is that when someone likes them you know to steer clear of them in future. That being said, what the fuck Guy Incognito II?

It's not gayer than Predator.

Why? Given that it's a series about this one guy's personal relationship to punk, and he was interested in the movement, what are you gonna do?

Oh I believe that she's politically extreme, just not very smart. Or at least not in the self-aware way that is required for a pop star.

sluglife actually isn't sluggo - s/he's been attacked before for it (by me, among others) but the name thing is a coincidence.

Eh? How are you not a troll? Come on, man, even you have to admit you troll like a motherfucker.

Hmmmm… I can't believe I'm defending Gaga here, who I have virtually no interest in, but I find it very hard to believe she's not extraordinarily self-aware. She's clearly someone who has very carefully thought out virtually every aspect of what she does, and is extraordinarily adept at manipulating the media to do…