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...Real hip-hop is the underground artists that respect the culture and strive to produce meaningful lyrics that will move not only your body, but also your mind and soul. How do we get more of these positive artists on the radio and TV? -Nick Wallace in Salt LakeAll hip-hop artists that are successful are poets. I would like them all of them to be uplifting. I would like the world to be that way. But they all have a right to exist as they are. I don't see why Snoop Dogg can't be the next Hugh...
There are movies made everyday glorifying death, murder, and sex. Why does hip-hop have to be the first one to take the fall? -D. Lee in North CarolinaIt doesn't have to, but it does. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. In the movies, the violence is so gratuitous. The sad truth is that people can't take it when it's reality. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look...
Russell Simmons, the so-called CEO of hip hop, made headlines last week when he politely urged the recording and broadcasting industries to excise the words “bitch,” “ho,” and “nigger” from all music. In a statement released through his Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, Simmons called these words “derogatory and disrespectful” and asked music executives to delete them from songs on a voluntary basis...
...their songs. Why didn’t Simmons request the removal of those words, too? And what about anti-gay epithets? Does Simmons think they are less hurtful than anti-woman epithets? (If you’ve seen Byron Hurt’s excellent documentary, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” you’d wonder the same thing...
...years of hearing rappers talk negatively about women, about their babies’ mothers and sex,” he writes, “there’s been a real change in the patterns of teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy in the black community is down, and I believe hip-hop…made girls smarter about premarital...