I am more and more intrigued by your last two paragraphs. I have read them a couple of times and I think there is really something there. I don't have a fear that extreme will become the new normal. That every time we reach our limit for what we accept, we actually condition our mind to allow us to go a little further down the path.

Nice shout out to Easy E by the way. Every once in a great while, my iTunes will cycle through some of early 90's rap and I remember, it my professional opinion, how much better it was than everything else.