[Brainhose]

This is a no brainer. I had the same argument with an ex-friend, I complained about Rap's vile lyrics and he said: "Ya know, our parents complained about the Beatles".
A completely moronic argument, since I was young we've now gone from the scandalous "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (GASP) to rap lyrics that call women B*tches and whores and urging the killing of police officers.
Why don't you discuss that aspect with your daughter? Why quibble over dialect when the core of the songs are just so different? I'm sure you must find the subject of these rap songs terrible. I don't understand why you let your children listen to it.

[weegee]

Former pimps, drug runners, and hustlers who "got a break" and a record contract are hardly in the same class as the Beatles (who played strip club dives early in their careers).

"Are you frontin'" is a challenge put on "you" by players in the game on the street trying to cast you off as a bulls***er and not as "tough" as they are. One upsmanship among a bunch of thugs (not necessarily low rent). Some continue to traffic in a life of crime even after they become big. Getting gunned down by another criminal before you are thirty does not make you a "big man".