Can we please just stop hating on rap, please? It's not as shallow a genre as people think it is. I will admit that all of the mainstream stuff is about "dat money an dem bitches", but that is actually only a small percentage of rap music that is out there. Most of it actually has a positive message. I don't listen to the shallow rap, only the rap with a message. I have heard plenty of rap songs about respecting women, taking responsibility for your mistakes, and the cold hard realities of gang life. The reason you don't hear about these songs is because they are not what sells, the "guns an hoes" songs are what sells, which says more about our society as a whole than about rap culture. Will Smith has very positive rap, and try listening to Tupac's (yes Tupac) song "Changes". The Game is a very real rapper. Anyone who has ever been the ghetto knows that it is not a pretty place and they do not want to go back to that life once they get out of it (which is very hard to do). Also, don't make judgements based on a very limmited experience of a genre. I listen to some Metal and Punk Rock, but I don't try to claim that I am an expert on either genre (I do have an apreciation for both though). I don't listen to just rap though, I also listen to rock, alternative, reggea, latin, classical music, classic rock, country, techno, electronic, and Jack Johnson (I don't know how to classify him).