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...What do you hope to accomplish by eliminating the n-word? -Robert C. Smith in Garden City, NY I think people misunderstand the stance. It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart. But I don't think that rappers are part of this debate. This debate is about corporations and other corporations. This debate is about the sponsors and the people who are concerned and the people who have a business to protect. But the artists' rights have to be protected. Sometimes America can go so far that people's rights...
...promote it. They talk about regime change, but they also talk about oil and s___. They say it is regime change, but it is so complicated. Most of the time we aren't talking about supporting anybody unless there is something under the ground. And that is the sad truth about American ambition and many kinds of foreign policy. I don't have the answer. But don't we wish all the politicians were not connected in so many ways...
...have to be the first one to take the fall? -D. Lee in North Carolina It 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 at poor people ? it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people...
...know many hip-hop artists are talented, but why can't they make songs that don't put black people down in front of the world? -Sherman Gay, Los AngelesThey don't think they are putting themselves down. Hip-hop is so honest. We have to adhere to the truth, even if it makes us uncomfortable. The artists have to express what's in their heart. They don't always feel like being happy and dancing...
...truth is that the war on terror is destined to outlast a change in the Oval Office - or in vocabulary...