I think if you were going to study rap lyrics as 'text' you couldn't really compare them tothe poetry of Walt Whitman. Rap's from a different time, yo, *cough* and perhaps by people who come from a completely different world to old Walt. It would be damn interesting. Considering movies are now considered 'texts' you could pretty much do it with rap. Come to think of it, I hate it when people refer to movies as 'text'. I don't know why.

I would also like to know who B-real are.

Q. Towelie on South Park. Why?