you see the best hip hop track have a meaning behind them.... lyrics truley are key to what is otherwise a pretty homogenous back beat....

for example: the message by grandmaster flash... possibly one of the greatest songs of all time, why? because the lyrics discribe perfectly the bittersweet ironies and tourments of growing up in back 1980's urban america... now while i do not fit into any of those catagories, im not black i didt live in the 80's nor in america its a great part of history and something worth understanding.....

dan