  The sun is shinin' through the broken slats in my window as the alarm goes off. Waking up is great when bad dreams turn sleep into a re-run of uncomfortable and disturbing memories.
Solution: Get up, grab the stereo, plug it into the bathroom socket and pump some 50 Cent as I hop into a hot shower. "I love to hit the block, I love my Tu Pac, I love to bust shots, But Y'all don't hear me though. " -50 It never ceases to amaze me how much I enjoy music that I shouldn't be able to relate to at all, being the relatively well educated cracker that I am.
I think it has to do with the energy and depth of feeling to some of it. Now I'm not talking about P. Diddy or Nelly pop bullshit. But the hard-core rappers- like 50, Snoop, Biggie, Tu Pac - and the thoughtful rappers - Like Kanye, Kwali, Dead Prez - really bring a lot of emotion to their music. When so much popular musicians seem like they're going through the motions the rappers I listen to have more depth of feeling to what they're singing about.
Don't get me wrong though, I recognize there is a lot of bad, souless rap out there. I came to work and in the Globe and Mail there is a funny story about playing cards produced by the American centre for disease control that "feature graphic photographs depicting ailments, including images of children with polio and mumps and close-ups of a staph infection and an ulcer. " urlLink 'Got it, got it, got it, need it,don't want it' The cards are supposed to educate kids.
I wonder if their is a card for Paranoia? This story got me thinking about my favorite non-traditional deck of cards, - no they don't have strippers on them, sicko - the War Profiteers Deck. These cards are a spoof on the American "most wanted" deck of cards made to help soldiers identify the enemies of freedom during the occupation. In this deck are everyone's favorite neo-cons like Rummy and Cheney, organizations like the IMF and my favorite: urlLink The Jerk Card you can check the rest of the deck out urlLink here .
Peace. 
