i mean, i find that HEH IM DA BEST thing annoying too, but i think a certain amount of machismo is endemic in all of hip hop culture. i definitely don't really hold it against the mc if his songs have actual substance. it is one thing to think some bum who talks about nothing but how many women he fucks///cars he owns and how awesome he is in general is irritating, but i don't think sage is really all that huge an offender. a lot of his lyrics are either introspective (and not in the MAN I RULE way) or observant. that song ds posted has like nothing to do with him! i dunno, i never really got that out of his music, i guess.