Time & Perspective Quote by Jon Crosby

Crosby’s line lands with the weary clarity of a working musician watching “new” music become a weather system you can’t control, only dress for. The casual hedge - “At least” - is doing heavy lifting: it grants rap metal a baseline legitimacy while quietly downgrading it to a trend you tolerate, not a language you speak. “It’s not really my bag” is less dismissal than boundary-setting, the kind artists use when they don’t want to start a genre war but also don’t want to be drafted into someone else’s cultural moment.

The real tell is the touring detail. Being on the road turns the radio into a proxy for normal life, a flickering connection to whatever the mainstream is deciding today. Crosby isn’t presenting himself as a tastemaker; he’s admitting to consumption by circumstance. “We don’t get it most of the time” sounds like a throwaway, but it’s a sharp reminder of pre-streaming scarcity: the band is physically moving through dead zones, dependent on local stations, reception, and whatever’s in range. That constraint shapes taste. You listen to what you can get, and you build opinions inside those limits.

Subtext: he’s measuring himself against the radio without surrendering to it. Rap metal is “good,” sure, but the band’s identity can’t be built on a format they only catch in fragments. It’s an offhand quote that quietly sketches the era’s tension between touring musicians and the machinery of radio-defined cool.