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It's unexplanitory, how I gets lifted higher than a hundred stories; I take a beer and I guzzle it, I'm speakin' so shut your mouth and muzzle it; smokin' el's and rollin' reefer, I'll get you more f---ed up than a can of ether; so beautiful when I light it up, and then I cup my hands when I fire it up. --Wax of ESMob, "Lil' Ass Playa" (Losee 1995) Lines much like these are not …

…ks as much; but that it is a different frame of mind. When author Ronin Ro asked Swift if he was just an alcoholic in denial, Swift said, "You prob'ly right. But am I hurting you or your family? I don't think so. So mind your own" (1996, p. 74) Reverend Calvin Butts and C. Dolores Tucker, both advocates against rap music, would most likely disagree. Butts and Tucker claim that even mentioning such things as