So on my way to work today I realized that I had left my cd case at home and had nothing to jam to.  I was forced to listen to the dreaded radio.  There has never in my whole life been a radio station that I have thoroughly enjoyed.  I am extremely selective when it comes to my music and I will not have a brainless disc-jockey assigning what he or she thinks is music into my eardrums based on the idiotic phone calls of screaming twelve-year-olds and belly-shirts of mid life crisised adults.  During commercial breaks someone is always yelling at me to buy or attend something ridiculous when they should be in anger management classes or submerging themselves into a bathtub.  Yikes, was that too much?  I don't think so. 

I had the horror of hearing some music? this morning, it was unfortunately Hip-Hop.  One was a song by Ray-J called Sexy Can I?  First of all, No, you cannot!  I knew this song was going to be non-biodegradable trash because he semi-apologizes from the beginning, ...sexy can I, just pardon my manners.  The song is about a girl named Sexy apparently, and how he likes to visit her at work.  Go figure she isn't working at your local grocer, volunteering at the Jax Zoo or teaching Women's Studies at UNF, ...sexy can I, visit you at work when you sliding down the pole.  Oh and the song also makes a point to mention, ...and if you ain't ****in' tonight man you can watch that tour bus go by.  Drive on idiot!  How classy. 

 And then there is Lil Wayne.  Lollipop is a song about a girl named Shawty who thinks that Lil Wayne (who also has a stuttering problem), ...Lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-looks like a lollipop wanna lick the rapper so I letta lick the rapper.  Oh how clever, rapper and wrapper, nice pun Lil Wayne!  Now, I know that rap lyrics have been derogatory and indecent for a long time and I did not just awake from a coma.  It just seems to be getting worse each year.  Does it make anyone else want to yack that these songs are currently on America's Top 40 and will probably be under millions of middle school student's Christmas trees in December?  But don't get your tubes tied just yet.  Hip-Hop is not all hoes, b**%#es, crime, sex, drugs and vulgarities such a these.  Hip-Hop artists who have real talent are out there.  Here are some links to some of my favorites, wrap these raps instead, thanks garbage man!

Aesop Rock: http://www.definitivejux.net/

Jurassic Five (J5): http://www.jurassic5.com/

Mos Def:  http://www.geocities.com/mosdef2002/

G. Love and Special Sauce: http://www.philadelphonic.com/home