Well, look around you, where else are you going to go?" He raps his knuckles anxiously on the table.
Having made his name with down-to-earth raps about Weetabix and KFC, can we now expect more rarefied subject matter?
Despite being a capitalist patriarchy, though, the music business can also be a terrific vehicle for the voices of women and minorities – and what's unfortunate about this kerfuffle is that the most interesting aspect of it, Cyrus's latest album, Bangerz – a glorious record of freestyle-influenced club tracks, overblown theatrical ballads and hoedown country raps – has been overlooked.
Mr Wuthnow raps today's religious leaders for paying limited attention to inequality and poverty in this Tea Party age.
He's famous for hollering "What!" "Yeah!" and "O-Kayyyyy!" in the backing tracks to the songs he's involved with, but he also raps on his own.Mark Liberman's link to this YouTube [note: about a million swear-words, as there will be in the rest of this post] of Lil Jon's track "What You Gonna Do" got me thinking, of all things, the progressive grammaticalisation of the word shit.
After reading "The Partner" you will be up to date on, among other things, bugging devices, how to fake your death, change your identity, track fugitives and beat raps through legal ruses.
Jasiri X, a rapper, raps that "Unless you're born black you can't understand the feeling/ They beat that boy down; they never planned to kill him".
Some of the raps are indeed angry and misogynistic, so grating that you have to close the book for a while.
"I'M STUNTIN' and flossin' and savin' my money and I'm hella happy that's a bargain, bitch," raps Macklemore, an American musician, in his 2012 song "Thrift Shop", extolling the virtues of second-hand shops.
At almost every door Connor Harnett, an 18-year-old security guard and candidate for the right-wing populist party, raps on, the answer comes: "Before you get started, darling, I'm voting for you anyway .That is just as well because, cruelly tongue-tied, the burly debutant politician struggles to say more than: "Here's our manifesto.
They have also brought their own national twist to a foreign sport with raps about "banging G's" (scoring goals) and delightfully direct chants ("I believe that we will win").
