Dead In Motion By The Anti-Pop Consortium Is Spot-On

This quote is so wrong-headed it's embarrassing:

There's never been a time when rap didn't have to defend itself. The culture perpetually generates criticism and accusations from every corner: from the political establishment; from proponents of other types of music; and, most crucially, from itself. 

Luckily, rap is particularly well equipped to absorb all the criticism it invites, because rap, by its very nature, is a culture in which almost nothing is impermissible. Pathological narcissism, poor taste, and criminal behavior are punishable traits by the standards of the mainstream culture. But within rap, even the most shameful acts are defensible, if only because rap is meant to be a melting pot of egregious behavior and reckless judgment.

Gee, what could I get to counter that argument? How about a never-complained-about True Sounds Of Liberty doing "Code Blue"?

 

I never got along with the girls at my school
 

Filling me up with all their morals and their rules
 

They'd pile all their problems on my head 


I'd rather go out and fuck the dead 


'Cause I can do what I want and they won't complain 


I wanna fuck I wanna fuck the dead 


Middle of the night so silently
 

I creep on over to the mortuary
 

Lift up the casket and fiddle with the dead
 

Their cold blue flesh makes me turn red 


'Cause I can do what I want and they won't complain
 

I wanna fuck I wanna fuck the dead 


And I don't even care how she died...
But I like it better if she smells of formaldehyde!
 

Never on the rag or say leave me alone
 

They don't scream and they don't moan
 

Don't even cry if I shoot in their hair
 

Lying on the table she smiles and she stares
 

Chorus

So, Rock songs about fucking dead girls - performed without irony - are A-O.K., but let a Rapper call a feminist "bitch" and it's the end of Western civilization. 

 Race problem? What race problem? This is something different altogether.

Until recently, I haven't mentioned race on TMR, and there's a reason:

Too busy discussing American racial double standards with the corpse in my basement,...