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RAP IS GIVING A WRONG IMAGE

RAP IS GIVING A WRONG IMAGE

Anthony Dillon · Wednesday, September 21st 2005 at 8:20PM · 140 views
I love hip hop like the next person, but the rap game is becoming saturated with wannabe thugs and commercial music. Being a thug is a fad and the youth doesn't know it. Music videos are corrupting our race with the cars, bling bling, clothing and beautiful people. Well, in reality we know these hip hop artist act gangsta talking about what they will do, but they cleaned their lives up somewhat and the not going to risk there meal ticket. The youth are imitating these weak rolemodels like 50 Cent! P Diddy is a good rolemodel because he's giving back, and he's not carrying a bad image for our future. It's okay to have a lil bling or a nice whip, but don't put all your money into things with no value... I mean really can you live in a car? Some rap music is producing black on black crime. The lyrics are telling us to kill our own people, and of course the record labels are going to give them millions to keep us enslaved mentally. We can do more than run fast, play sports and rap we put to much emphasis on those things. We don't want to be a inferior race; come on people! We were beaten, hunged, disrespected and we killing our own people. Think, are we so messed up in the head that we can't differeniate fiction rap from reality. Don't let rap brain wash you, take it for what it is music. Don't implement the lyrics you are listening to. There is to much negativity in the world; where is the love ......MAN?

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Anthony Dillon kansas city, MO

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WILLIAM W. HEMMANS III Wednesday, September 21st 2005 at 11:12PM

Awesome post bro, keep up the great work, you never know who is reading this and the positive mind opening affect upon people.
Peace

Will Moss Thursday, September 22nd 2005 at 3:54AM

Don't you do some video work? :-D

DeMishea Charleston Thursday, September 22nd 2005 at 1:19PM

I certainly agree that rap gives the wrong image. My cousin is hearing impaired...yet he always writes about being a PIMP, and I read one of the raps he wrote, even though it's not written like a hearing person would write it...because he learns American Sign Language which is kind of backwards english...his general rap was talking about living in the ghetto, being a pimp, have 6 or 7 girls on his arm, guns, all that negative stuff he see's on BET. And he can't even hear. He's about 17yrs old...this is the kind of image our youth has to look forward to or believe is glamours. No one talks about the struggle of getting a college degree on a HBCU campus and it can be a struggle or the importance of having knowledge. Alot of you black males tend to think, "if I just have a nice car with some 20inch rims, and tinted rims, then I got something. Never mind they are living from pay check to pay check or not having an honest job as long as the outward image is portaryed with the finer things of life...why do I talk like this...b/c I'm very close to my guy cousin they think like this. Just wanted to let ya know I do agree.

Best wishes,
DeMishea Charleston

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