Blown away. As an old white guy who loves and plays jazz, I totally ignored and even dissed the whole rap thing. I thought jazz and blues were the world's storyteller of tragedy, injustice, & magic of life, love, & living. To everyone who creates, performs, and blasts out this music, thank you. What I thought was noise is, in fact, a powerful heart daring & struggling to break out of a cage society wanted it to stay silent in. Raise your voice, drive those deep beats, lift the world higher by telling the stories of life the world needs to hear. My eyes and my heart are opened. Rap On.