But it's supposed to be playing in the middle of Rocket Queen! Axl once claimed they wrote it while trying to get kicked off the Iron Maiden tour.

It's just the rap being done by itself as its own song.

Let me see if I can find the recording of Rocket Queen from their 02/22/92 Tokyo show where he does the rap in the middle of the song in like a minute. Not only is it much better, the recording quality is much better.

Ah, I was writing my post as you made yours and didn't even see it. Also, I don't watch 90% of embedded videos, and being as that was only 51 seconds long as simply titled "Axl Rose Rapping", I never would have guessed.

Axl is Axl. Love him or hate him.

In some recent interviews and statements, he's said some interesting stuff. Specifically, he's repeatedly accused Slash of being a liar and a delusional narcissist, the very charges that were leveled against Rose during his extended absence from the public eye and the media. One thing in particular that Axl often brings up is a popular story that Slash allegedly started spreading that one night on the Use Your Illusion tour Axl supposedly threw a huge temper tantrum and refused to go on stage until his bandmates signed over complete ownership of the GN'R name to him. Sounds believable, right? Sounds like something the man who stormed off multiple stages and started feuds with Vince Neil and Kurt Cobain might do, right? Except it's not true. Axl has owned the GN'R name since 1985.

Now, it's much easier to believe Slash. He's always smiling, always working on some music project, always available for a photo-op. Meanwhile Axl is very private, possibly bipolar, seemingly lacking self-esteem, and haunted by childhood sexual abuse. But what if Axl is telling the truth? What if Slash really has tried to systematically defame him since the breakup?

You can't possibly believe that. It took the man from somewhere around 1998 up until mid-2008 before he thought Chinese Democracy was good enough. If that doesn't show self-esteem issues, I don't know what does.

That, or you're just being mean.

Again, Axl is most certainly not "highly aggressive". If you study his behaviorial patterns, bipolar disorder (aka manic depressive order) is a much more reasonable diagnosis. What you see is occasional bursts energy - some benevolent, some malevolent - followed by large lulls.

I've read pretty much every interview, heard pretty much every story. It's hard to tell what's true and what's not. A lot of the craziest stuff comes from has-beens, never-weres, and ex-girlfriends.

Erin Everly has repeatedly claimed that Axl paid thousands of dollars to have the souls of her dead dogs transferred into new bodies. I think that's the best one I've heard.