[Richard Kimball]

You're not phrasing it correctly. Everyone, according to these studies, is a wonderful person. Here's what you wrote:

all the rap fans that I have known (with one single exception) have been highly confrontational, highly disagreeable, explosive, hoodlum-esque, and the type I wouldn't trust further'n I could throw

Here's how to phrase it so it can go in Cosmo or the Enquirer:

If you listen to rap or hip hop, you are one of two types. You are either enthusiastic, given to sudden outbursts of enthusiam, usually 9 mm or larger, creative headwear angles and sharing your music with all others within a quarter-mile range, or you're a middle class white kid, seeking to get in touch with a multicultural viewpoint, so long as it doesn't involve moving out of your parents house.

Now, isn't that more agreeable?

[maxwell]

given to sudden outbursts of enthusiam, usually 9 mm or larger

Bwahaha...

Well I gotta say Eminem's stuff is tolerable. If I'm drunk I can listen to it. Most of that rap dogwaste is just downright primitive though. Makes my IQ go down just thinking about it. (Wallllll not that "She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger," "If I Said You had A Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me?" or "Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through The Goalposts of Life" is gonna do ya a whole lot better in any sort of intellectual aspiration... [snortle])

COUNTRY MUSIC LOWERS YOUR KID'S IQ

[maxwell]

And talk about IQ-lowering. With Spears, Timberlake and all the rest of them ridiculous teenyboppers, no wonder kids today are so fricking stupid.

I don't even know who's popular now with the kiddies but I do know I dig that one new song by Joe Nichols "She only smokes when she drinks". He reminds me of ol' whatshisname, John Anderson. Craig Morgan's "Almost home" is pretty good too. I think it was Randy Travis who put out that one about "3 wooden crosses" that is one of the best new songs I have heard in a while.