Advocates of hard-core rap say that its lyrics are cautionary tales depicting real life in the inner city.

This song invigorates better than the heaviest metal or the most hard-core rap.

"I'm about to give you a cool-out, mental show," she announced before her short set, apparently expecting New Yorkers to accept hard-core rap or nothing.

His Kenny G image, however, does not deter hard-core rap and rock artists from working with him.

It is, he said, an elemental part of the style and attraction of hard-core rap.

But now hard-core rap and other murderous, misogynous music will have one less radio outlet in New York City.

What they won't hear is hard-core rap.

When youths aren't frustrated rap tends to be lighter, he says, and right now, "hard-core rap still dominates."

He waited until she left, even though hard-core rap was pumping all around them.