Game 11 - Mets 1, Brewers 0

This is the type of game the Mets lost last year.

This is the type of game that Johan Santana would pitch, then not win and that's what cost him the Cy Young. Yes, Lincecum had a great year but if Santana has three more wins, meaning 19 for the season, he wins his third Cy...

OK, so it took a John Hopkins grad to answer the question with the detail needed to take it from dream to discussion. No offense Zoltan, but you didn't define it like this:

Definition of conscience music--

Music that is inspired by and speaks to the universal human condition,
i.e. the struggle to overcome suffering, and, more particularly, in
the context of society that promotes suffering exploitation,
dehumanization and general alienation.

I could take this in various directions. I could comment on the fact that various rappers have done tracks towards this, whether their public persona shows this off or not.

Let's see. Jay-Z - Meet the Parents. 2Pac - Brenda's Gotta Baby. Kool G Rap - Streets of New York. That's just off the top of my head, but clearly each of those artists are better known for spitting "gangsta rap". Whatever that is.

I could argue that rap, in its essence, is founded on conscience rap. That The Last Poets, Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, The Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow, Eric B. and Rakim and KRS-One were all conscience rappers. That the pillars of this thing we call hip-hop are founded in what seems to be an insult against rappers nowadays.

My wife makes fun of Common by calling him that poetry rapper. It's a shame that artists like Dead Prez are considered underground because they'd rather rap about social issues than the imaginary social scene, full of drugs, alcohol, loose women and fast cars.

As I type that, it reminds me of rock in the 1980s with all those bad hair bands, screaming around the stage with scantly clad women miles away. Sorry, that's a Patton Oswalt joke that I find pretty funny.

Since I'm leaving topic, I'll leave the post here. Nelson Figueroa goes tomorrow for the three-game sweep at 1:10.