Rap Censorship

Are rap lyrics the scourge of society? I think not. America thinks not. As these ineffective politicians will see when America returns to the polls! I'm certainly not saying that it's OK to demean or violate someone else. It's not! What I am saying is that rap should not be dragged around and beaten senseless by a bunch of preppy non-thinking wonderbuns who take pieces of lyrics and analyze them out of context in order to build and further their own political agendas. Most rap artists chronicle their existence in their lyrics. Wanna know how Chuck D felt or what he was thinking when "Apocalypse..."

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As the founder of an organization established to protect the rights of rap artists, to support and promote rap music, and to unify the rap community, I deal with rap music and the industry constantly. was created? Pop it in the old tape deck. Let's ask them how to help alleviate the problems. And these are just two examples that exist in an industry full of positive rappers. I'm not certain if they mean White America or Black America, or if they even care, but according to the Citizens Crime Commission (a not- for-profit research group legitimized by The New York Times), violent crime in the U. Let's not shoot the messengers, let's listen to what they're saying. And if you don't want your own children to listen to rap lyrics, explain to them why, and then turn it off.

Instead of stomping out our personal freedoms and First Amendment rights by censoring rap lyrics, let's all work together to stamp out the 500 year cycle of oppression and disenfranchisement within non-white communities in America that leads to the experiences that are highlighted in rap lyrics. Let's be careful not to shoot the messenger!

The "lyric vigilantes" currently blaming the woes of society on rap lyrics, say they have targeted rap lyrics at this point in time because of an increase of violence in America. Let's separate the real issues from the symptoms of the problems, and then solve the real problems.

It is frustrating that a society that claims as many young Black and Latino victims as the United States, would attack rap music, which is often viewed as the only legitimate form of expression by many urban youth, as "part of the problem in society," instead of seeing it for what it is: expression of the ills of society as seen through the eyes of its victims.

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