The ideal music listener encompasses all three factors, but it is the third critical facility that Strasser is trying to encourage. He reckons that anyone who cares to study it for five minutes will see clearly that what the Americans call hip-hop and rap is constituted of the four by four bar rhythm and basic dodecaphonic construction of Austrian folk music of the late nineteenth century. “Enough of this music was archived by scholars to prove this.”

"But my critique, of course, is not of the orthodox harmonies, as Adorno may have wished, but of society at large.” That stupid chuckle on his face again. “In my articles I try to bring the young people of Germany to analyze this decadent culture they have been unfortunate enough to have been born into. What do we want and what do we need to solve the problems of Germany? I see these new white rappers as being a way to wake the young, cynical generation up. Their natural impulse to hate society as it stands today must be encouraged but also developed. I love to go to these rap battles and feel the young energy brewing in the room.” Thanks for the tea, you fucking mentalist.