21 Questions

I’ve been working overnights at work lately.  Yes, my schedule is totally wrecked and even more so than it normally would be because I have four overnight shifts and one regular one.  However, the overnights still have their advantages.  I’m able to blast music and listen to full albums, since no one else is there to interrupt me. 

I’ve been listening to a lot of rap: Eminem, Wu-Tang, Young Dro, Kendrick Lamar, DJ Quik and lots of others.  Besides wandering why pussy, cash, and guns are such popular topics when the rapper is presumably in the studio making his raps rather than doing the before mentioned things, I wander if there is a certain portion of the population that likes all of the skit tracks on rap albums. 

It seems every rap release has a decent amount of tracks where the rapper is performing seemingly pointless conversations, confrontations, phone calls, or other forms of noise that are not rapping.  The phone call seems to be a very popular skit.  This usually consists of the rapper talking on the phone with someone and having a confrontation.  They aren’t funny either, at least to me.  My real question is: Does anyone like these tracks?  Do other people find Kanye’s skits much more listenable than other rappers’ skits?  And, is this a cultural thing where being from the suburbs and having a college background make me not get it? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDZie1Za7u0 Can you dig it because I can not.