>It's like, I have a feeling if it was a bunch of hipsters
>trying to do ironic 'sleazy' metal, we wouldn't have received
>this message. But with Tyler there's got to be a dangerous
>element of 'real' (even though all the OFWG songs are so
>excessive they hop, skip and jump over easily into parody, yet
>their detractors want to take them deadly serious). Which is
>why I think there is a racial element; a young black teen
>rapping about raping three women and shooting a cop pulling
>him over(while driving underage)=deadly element of real as
>opposed to outlandish fantasy.

...this is not surprising.