Rap Music
I’ve been a part of the Hip-Hop community since the late ’70s. I really started to participate in the early ’80s. Since that time, I’ve seen purposeful rap music get pimped and pandered, beaten and broken, slumped over on its ear and left for dead. In 2013, the average rap song is almost nothing more than a mobile advertisement for sex, drugs, violence, and more sex. Even the “radio friendly” versions of songs are chock full of explicit material and adult themes. Too much of popular rap music is focused on sex and violence, two things that are sensitive, yet ignored issues in urban American neighborhoods. The sagging pants, the tattoos, the “I don’t give a f**k” attitude can all be loosely linked to young kids emulating their favorite rapper. Rappers that often emulate their favorite criminal. Take off the blinders and see where this is headed.
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