What...do you think the only hip hop artists out there are 50 cent cookie cutter artists? You bet...there is some rap and hip hop that has negative messages...BUT, you are basically saying that ALL hip hop and rap does...and that is crap. In fact, there is a large native hip hop "scene" if you will in Canada that focuses on positive messages, healing, and dealing with past issues between natives and europeans. There are people like K-os...with some pretty positive lyrics, amazing rhyming abilities, etc. And that, for the most part, is where hip hop and rap started...a sped up version of street poetry...and there are some very good representatives of that. Not all rap and hip hop is guys with big chains, booty shaking girls and guns. And this is what I am trying to argue more than anything...that your generic stereotypes of stuff is getting old and tiresome."Obviously you don't know much about hip hop...other than what IS under the media gun. Why isn't Anderson Cooper reporting on the influential artists who are taking a positive approach...folks who treat the form as a true art? Where is he on that one?"
Snfu, do you live in a closet? All the key US news journalism shows I watch have had positive input from industry reps in the last couple of weeks.
What puzzles me is your bias that hiphop is a "true art" form. How in the name of anything that might possibly make sense in this universe did you get to that assumption? I'm listenin'....
Besides...why focus on music reps...focus on the music. This whole same thing has happened with music for decades now...from Ozzy to Twisted Sister to the whole straight edge deal to...whatever...and, of course, the focus is always on the SHOCKING and the EXTREME...that's what makes people like Anderson Cooper so popular! People like him are relied on to tell america what is scary...and they are more than abliged to find the scary stuff...and forget to mention the positive role models, or the real artists, or what have you....
Oh, and by the way, if you think rap is bad....
Ahhhhh...check out those cute little girls in prussian blue...aren't they great! Wow. Yup.