Rap and Politics
Aside from insulting Barack Obama and demonizing Islam, bashing Hip-Hop is one of the mainstream media’s favorite pastimes.
Aside from insulting Barack Obama and demonizing Islam, bashing Hip-Hop is one of the mainstream media’s favorite pastimes.
Extreme situations call for extreme measures. So how can you teach your child to appreciate the type of rap which won’t brainwash them into thinking that sex, drugs, violence and partying is what life is all about? Here are 6 ways to indoctrinate.
Firstly, for those who don’t know, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the government agency in charge of regulating all communication in the United States. They’re also responsible for monitoring explicit language, content, and images in public broadcasting
First week sales numbers are in for Rick Ross, Pharrell Williams and more:
Although I had to move on, I have NOT forgotten you. I left to find the truth…and bring it back to you.
The BET Honors is a two hour broadcast to honor those that the network doesn’t air in the other 8764 hours in a year.
“If a rapper who talks about killing people can’t handle someone getting ready to ask a question about the only interesting thing he’s done in the past year, maybe that’s a sign that rap journalism is broken,” Baker wrote.
It took a 17 year-old girl from New Zealand to bring attention to a problem that’s been plaguing rap music for years while a 1000 rappers who have been trying to do the very same thing for the last two decades have been overlooked, silenced, and even mocked for being relics of a bygone Hip Hop era.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z have become a pop and Hip Hop icons, to the extent both seem untouchable, in likes of “made” mafia figures. Seemingly, they have been given the general public’s permission to say and do whatever they like, without consequence. This notion, perhaps, has been reflected in the couple’s hubris as of late.