My favorite lyric drops about halfway through and has something to do with liberals wanting to kill babies and ban prayer in the Navy--a kind of Jay-Z-esque slant rhyme that falls nicely on the ear if you can ignore the atrocity of the context in which it exists. Funny how my usual critique of 'conscious rap' (that it deals far too much in vague generalities to be 'conscious' of much more than its own sanctimony--exceptions for Common, KRS-one, Qwali, etc.--a harsh critique, I know, but true in many cases, I'm afraid) is also basically my critique of this bozo: too simplistic, too many platitudes instead of saying things in a way that might actually compel people to reexamine their own society (e.g. Dylan, Marvin Gaye). I mean come on: Liberals want to kill babies? No one wants that. Is there no end to the hard-right's insistence that this very complex issue (the autonomy of a woman to have power over her own body weighed against the vexing moral question of what rights are extended to 'the unborn') is as simple as wanting or not wanting to 'kill babies.' And as for 'banning' prayer in the Navy--well, that one's just bizarre. Liberal-minded secularists, such as myself, welcome everyone, including sailors, to pray all they like---privately, which is another thing the right can't seem to get: the important difference between individual expressions of faith and the state, or an arm thereof, imposing a certain religion or religious practice---such as prayer---on those who wish to practice other faiths, or none at all.