Rap-Mind Revolution

I was listening to some of that rap music today. You know, the thing that I never got about rap was that everyone is talking about fights and battles and stuff like that. "Yo, Man, my rhymes are so much more ill than your rhymes!" Or "Come on and take me on, Jerk, and I'll show you that I am the better of us two rap artists." I don't get it. Why have an entire genre of music devoted to how much better you are at performing said genre of music. When you think about it, thats pretty meta. You're the best, supposedly, at rapping. And rap is rapping about rapping well. Are you with me?

Ok, so I was thinking that maybe rap needs something a little different. Like someone who actually had nice things to say about the other rappers. Someone who would remind everyone else that we're all good rappers when we put our rap-minds to it (everyone has a rap-mind (which isn't part of your regular mind) but you just have to find it within yourself).

I don't get how the whole rap artist naming system works either. Lil Wayne, Big Pun, Yung Something-or-other. Using that logic, to the best of my ability, I think my rap name would be Mighty Friendly Handshake, which is a pretty nice introduction to my friend-rap stylings. Immediatly artists like Jay Z could look at my name and say "Wow, I don't know who this fellow is, but I think his rhymes will be both fresh and inspirational to me. They'll make me feel good about myself."