1.   Better than rap lyrics and militias.

2.   A few poets offer tepid rap lyrics or graceless sociopolitical position papers.

3.   Aides to Dole said he had not seen the movies he cited but had read about them and had also read offending rap lyrics.

4.   But many rap artists and their supporters say the hard-edged lyrics of some rap lyrics merely reflect a grim, urban reality that they did not create.

5.   Death Row Records had flourished for years while becoming the poster child for violent, misogynist rap lyrics.

6.   Fuchs said earlier this week that he spoke to Ms. Tucker and offered to meet with Knight to discuss rap lyrics.

7.   Fuchs had accused Morris of leading a campaign to destabilize Warner Music while it was facing political pressure about rap lyrics.

8.   He also said rap lyrics about the slaying of police officers and the sodomizing of minors are more dangerous to children than drugs.

9.   He cites Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who recently pilloried Time Warner over obscene and violent rap music lyrics.

10.   He questions the merits of rap lyrics that are often dirty and graphically violent.