Oh, Shh. From W.B.E.Z. Chicago and PRX, this is Sound Opinions. I'm Greg Kot.

And I'm Jim Deregatus. Music can be a mighty force that brings people together, but it can also be weaponized.

This week we'll share our favorite disc tracks, songs that settle a score.

Plus the rock doctors are back to help a mom find good music for her son.

I realized I was going to have to expand my musical horizons to bring him up in a household that

showed him that he could be a whole bunch of different things

that he didn't have to just be a toxic dude. That's all coming up on sound

opinions. You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Greg Kott. He's Jim Deeregatus and this week we're going to assist a listener who's looking for some musical help.

We're going to talk to a mom who's got some issues with toxic masculinity as she says she's trying to empower her young son

who wants to avoid that syndrome but still listen to good music that's coming up

later in the show first a topic rife with toxic attitudes, distracts.

Stand, son, listen, man, dad isn't mad, but that's rife with them we have have machine gun Kelly and M&M feuding right now.

Of course, we had push a tee and Drake.

It's been there from the beginning.

And it goes back to trading the dozens, right?

I'm going to...

Schoolyard taunts.

Your mother's so big when she sits around the house, right?

All that nonsense.

Exactly, and hip-hop ran with it.

They took that tradition from the schoolyards into music and the trading of insults was a

core element in how an MC would get discovered in the early days. You know, you would have these battle

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