Prof is brilliant! Glad to see.<br>Lynrd Skynrd and Led Zeppelin aren't far from rap. I have the LS record and am a fan of LZ and happen to be a rap guy. If you can understand the systemic and cultural forces that turned Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie and Clyde) "from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake" You can build an appreciation for those who embody/portray such a character or who among them had actually dabbled in the underworld, and/or wed gang ethos  before making it. In doing, you also acquire an understanding of the economic realities, that also shape their choice of instruments and thus the art form. Please do note the recent phenomena of 'survivor worship' and which rappers have been most promoted. Culling from your own recent instruction in 'experiential blindness' and empathy, trying to understand what ideas they have of the justice system in it's different iterations and practices and prison complexes, there are many hidden gems of spirituality or mysticism in rap along with the espousal of "spirit of the rebel". themes ancillary also to Lynrd Skinnard and Led Zeppelin. Try the modern Jay Electronica, "Patents of nobility" Part II. (He happens to be above brag rap or coke rap)