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Why was an "explitive" the first word to your response? That remark alone tells me why you think putting this filth out is okay. Why the the profanity?? Was that even necessary?
do you listen to music or do you just skim through it?
talking about being thugs and gangstas, using half naked women in music videos, it's called -
entertainment-
If vile negative things like that give you joy, there's a deeper problem. How about some things that uplift black people?
it has absolutely no impact what so ever on the mentality of people if there is good parenting involved. but instead of wanting to take responsibility of teaching their children good morals, parents would rather take the easy way out and blame rap music, or violent video games, or what have you.
my parents never once censored me from music, or movies, or video games. instead, they took the responsible approach, and they decided to familiarize themselves with what i was exposing myself to. when i decided to start listening to rap music in 6th grade, my dad sat down with me, and asked me to play the music for him. and when they realized what i was listening to, my parents took the responsible approach and taught me the difference between right and wrong, entertainment and reality. and as such, i knew that what i was hearing in my violent rap music was not something that i was to emulate. and as i grew older, and began paying more and more attention to the music, i also realized that the music was telling me these things were things that i was not supposed to emulate.
people like yourself pay absolutely no attention to the music. you see a half naked woman in a music video, and think the rappers are about objectifying women. not realizing that when they say "*****" and "hoe" they are talking about the women that actually are *****es and hoes, and not generalizing an entire gender as these things. why do they feel the need to speak on these things? because these are the things that these people experience. this is what these people see.
so yea, "one" song by 2pac dedicated to his mother is enough. because all that other **** he is spewing out isn't "venom", it's not corrupting youth. and if you listen to it, 2pac is trying to tell you that the bad things that he speaks of are the things that need to change. with 2pac in particular, it's a lot more than "one" song. listen to "keep ya head up", "dear mama", "changes", "brenda's got a baby", "unconditional love", "life goes on", "i ain't mad at cha" and tell me exactly what you think 2pac's message is.
listen to some bone thugs-n-harmony. listen to "tha crossroads", "if i could teach the world", "family tree", "change the world", "don't worry", "get up & get it", "if i fall", "don't stop", "do it again", "so good so right", "order my steps" and "i tried" and tell me what message you think these guys are trying to get across.
listen to some n.w.a. and i mean REALLY listen. not just skim through it. you tell me what point they are trying to get across. because the point ISN'T that being a gangsta, and drug dealer, and woman abuser, is cool. or "runaway love" by ludacris. most anything by nas. "slippin'" by dmx.
yea, there is a lot of hostile lyrics in rap music. because the world that these artists come from is hostile. that's what they know. but rap music is hardly the first form of music to say not so nice things. the doors, anyone? one of the most respected bands of all time. yea, morrison wasn't all rainbows and flowers with his lyrics. but nobody *****es about "break on through", "riders on the storm", or any doors death music as a poison to society. well, maybe back in the 60's when ed sullivan thought that morrison singing "baby we can't get much higher" was the ultimate evil, but these same people calling for the heads of hip hop artists, wanting to ban them, and force them into taming their lyrics, are the same people who think that morrison was god. and morrison was ****ing amazing. i love the doors. but let's not be so hypocritical here.
don't generalize an entire genre of music, and entire culture, off of some stupid ****s like 50 cent, and all the other ****ers out there right now, who are a bunch of idiots and bring the entire culture down. hip hop is more than just what you see on mtv. and hip hop is also more than just "*****" "hoe" and "*****". hip hop is legitamate music, just like rock n roll, jazz, blues, country, etc...
and the lyrics that come out of hip hop aren't a venom. you need to listen to the music, not skim through it. but that takes too much effort. people would just rather cry about everything and have it all banned, so that they don't have to put any effort into actually teaching values and morals to their children.
Not demeaning at all.....
