rap music

Neph it is what it is...I think some people here need to take that advice and thicken their skin.

my posts were aimed at all the silly comments ive been seeing tossed around, and not just in this thread, no ones saying you have to 'like the genre' its one thing to 'not like it' and its one thign to swipe it off as scum "trash" which goes to my original point...but yeah since no one has anything to say or contribute (but that)

might as well close it--

Jdilla, i have that ready, check your pm bud

 

Flip, I am standing up right now and applauding you, you nailed it right on the head.

 

I agree with you flip218 about the lack of quality parenting, but I would like to add that statistics show that more and more kids are growing up in single parent house holds. Many of these kids who are in those house holds turn to the people they see on the television and the internet as kind of a role-model. I would have to put a 50-50 blame on parents and on the artists (be they rap, rock, alternative, pop). I say the artists because they know the "real" audience they are reaching when their videos get played on BET and MTV.

I know having a "positive" message is not what sells now a days, but their are rap artists (getting back to the forum topic) who do promote the well-being of society. Check out artists like Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, and even 2Pac. Many people prolly would agree on 2Pac...but besides the commercial songs he did, (mainly forced to do by Suge) many of 2Pac's songs had a message in them that the Black community could relate 2.

Can someone else post other positive rap artists?

 

i love ya, flip! ;-) was hoping someone would make a good argument against that pathetic post of mine. it was totally unsupported and inane; 'bout time someone took it a step down