:wow:
That's deep.

It really depends for me... once they get into **** like gay-bashing, it's off the table for me.
I want to be able to sing along or rap with music I listen to and there's just some stuff I won't follow.

Yet "Stripped, Raped, and Strangled" by Cannibal Corpse is cool by me.

I guess it's the difference between stories, etc. and sending out legitimate messages or being brutal, gruesome, even violent in imagery and being downright hateful.

Alright, the latter seems to apply then.

B-but... you kinda' have a beard!
I thought that calms him/her.

I've been told lies!

This is part of why I dip more into either older hip-hop or the lesser knowns and underground artists.
Like, I dunno if anyone actually clicked the links I posted... (doubts it) but they weren't negative or encouraging anything bad.
I don't like when rap and hip-hop just becomes embracing negative stereotypes, shallowness, or boasting and materialism.

I thought lucid dreaming is like dreaming with awareness.
Or with the false awakening... waking up from a dream within a dream. So the one dream is acknowledged as such, but you're still dreaming and don't realize it.

I guess it could be to an extent. I was awake from that point on... albeit disappointed to be so awake.

I'm made to remember... Big Daddy Kane had some nice stuff.
Also, thank you for this msharmony.

Music by Gorillaz often incorporates some good guest rapping as well. The music aside is always good as well anyway.

Deltron 3030 is actually basically a prelude to Gorillaz. Damon Albarn provided some vocals on some of Del's tracks and in turn, Del helped out on Gorillaz self-titled debut. ("Clint Eastwood" and "Rock The House")
"Time Keeps On Slipping" and "Madness" from Deltron 3030 both almost sound like Gorillaz tracks at times due to Albarn's involvement...

I almost feel like Chuck D took Flava Flav in for one of 3 possible reasons:

1. Pity... sheer pity.
2. He knew Public Enemy would be amazing... perhaps too amazing. He needed a counterweight.
3. The contrast of Flava Flav utterly sucking just exemplifies Chuck D's own brilliance.

The differences to look for:

Melodic Death Metal has the heaviness and distortion of Death Metal, but with clearer harmonic melody and guitar lines of classic heavy metal. Vocal styles are often mixed and range from death grunts, growls, to more clear sounds. It is generally a separate subgenre from the following two (which may often overlap):

Power Metal is clear all around, typically pretty damn fast and may or may not incorporate keyboards as well. Vocals are clear and often range from medium to high, but not necessarily.

Symphonic Metal combines elements of classical music basically and symphonies. Operatic vocals are often included, though may be more like those of traditional heavy metal. Rather than relying solely on electric guitar, instruments like violins or organs, even piano, may be incorporated. This is often quite epic. Nightwish (mainly with Tarja) is a good example.

Yeah, I do have defend this guy.
Having certain preferences doesn't make someone an ageist or a racist.
If that's the case, only going for one gender makes someone sexist.

That's one sexy dude then.

I'll give some listens. Never got into Eminem. A lot of white kids just kinda' familiar with hip-hop flock to him, I don't know why.
Beastie Boys are good in that silly way, but like Bloodhound Gang I can only listen to them in doses.

Lyrics often matter a lot to me, so we'll see.
Like, Jedi Mind Tricks seemed good at first but when I heard them start spewing a bunch of homophobia and gay-bashing, I was like "f#ck this ****"...

Ice-T has some good stuff that he's done. I like that he's depicted the ghetto life often without actually trying to glorify it, such as in Escape The Killing Fields in which spoke out against glorifying it and advised getting out and trying to leave that kind of life behind.

If we'll get into old school, than I might as well throw out Public Enemy.
Basically the best. Chuck D's delivery is godly and his lyrics are great. Love the political drive and social awareness.
Flava Flav is the only downside to Public Enemy I can think of.

Well.... now that the question's been posed...

Yeah, my luck with white girls around here isn't that great. The people I tend to connect to better just happen to often be Puerto Ricans... a lot of the whites around here can tend to come off as kind of snobbish or just not very down to earth. I don't like to generalize like that, but it's what's been observed.

Just watched Sukiyaki Western Django last night... strange but I guess I liked it.
Pastiche films can be a lot of fun. It's something I loved with Brotherhood Of The Wolf/Le Pacte des loup.

Bold... so bold, it just might work!

I'm my own brand of sexy I guess.