st8jack-it is correct, 'rap session' is short for rapport; something of which there was very little ever going on in Group. I know that was the term used in The Seed, but I don't know anything about it before that. I agree, 'Clique session' would have been a much more apt term to describe it.
Bump music hurts my ears. I'm what they call nerve deaf. Actually, I get it from my dad's side of the family. I'm so sensitive to base sounds that I can't hear normal conversation over any amount of 'white noise'. But some of the rap artist are putting out poetry easily as good, or better, than anything that ever proceeded from the mouth of Bob Dylan!
http://www.geocities.com/bashlak/eminem/Not as good, though (imo), as some of the young metal or hard rock (are these the right classes? Scott?) like Linkin Park and Disturbed. Here's some System of a Down lyrics.
http://www.letssingit.com/lyrics/s/syst ... wn/23.htmlDisturbing as anything, but isn't good art supposed to move us? And the musical quality is just a whole lot more pleasing to me than most rap. But they're telling us essentially the same stories; and not much different from what Alic Cooper, Pink Floyd and Lynnard Skynnard were telling us decades ago. That which resonates is true.