If you're not making a joke that's wooshing over my head, they explicitly posted about this earlier.

Dense rhyme schemes? I'm trying to think of some but coming up empty, although to be fair it's been a minute since I was able to recite BB lyrics off the top of my head.

Thanks! You’re not wrong that I’ve spent an unhealthy amount of time thinking about this - I’ve written college papers comparing Wu Tang to Homer, and I once gave a public lecture on rap lyricism that I forced all my friends to attend.
Anyways, that was fun, glad you took it in good sport, I certainly don’t want to…

No. That’s just objectively false.

Good point.

Mid-90's doesn't qualify as Golden Age, despite the fact that I like it the most.

I get response notifications via email, and I often respond in my email client, and I'm pretty sure I've ended more than one with the signature I usually type at the end of informal emails. Which is just my name. So… there you go.

What if I am a weirdo?

Awesome!

Those fucking drums. I have no idea if that's a sample and if so, where it came from, but I have never heard anything else that hard in my life.

something something grab her by the birth control?

I always went to set people like that dude on fire. I’m not a huge fan of either Aesop or Sage, but I do know that they take (took?) their craft pretty seriously. Can you imagine how they feel knowing that there is a substantial fraction of their fanbase who think this way? Ugh.

Haven’t heard anything since like the third (?) Spearhead album, so don’t know. When he turned to pure weed rap, I gave up, personally.

I saw the trailer ahead of Dr Strange, and I nearly left the theatre because it would ruin anything else that came after.

I’ve heard he’s amazingly difficult to work with, which isn’t really that surprising I suppose. One of the albums (Ghetto Music?) has an insert saying “BDP in 91 (or whatever) is NOT Ms Melodie, D-Nice, or blah blah blah, stop fronting!”. Reading that you realize that he may have lacked some people skills. Then he…

I was thinking of DHOH. I was in its direct target market when it came out: left-wing radical poser whiteboy with a love for rap and an affinity for Chomsky, and after about 10 listens I realized I couldn’t even pretend to like it. Essays don’t make for good music, even with a shitty industrial beat behind them.

That's pretty fucking stacked.

It was my introduction to the Beasties, I mean I'd heard singles before or whatever, but that's when I got into them. And yeah, it's not as good as CYH, in retrospect.

They've always had kind of weak, whiny vocals. It's just their voices, unfortunately. But yes.

It's not a bullshit distinction, it's a perfectly accurate one. Just, as you say, it doesn't correlate with quality. Michael Franti's first group… uh… fuck I can't remember shit any more… was probably the most serious rap thing ever, but it honestly kind of sucked balls.