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Rappers Rapping with Capitol Hill

You can't stop hip-hop is the message being spoken by rappers on Capitol Hill. In a House Committee hearing reminiscent of the days of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, rapper David Banner is defiant about cleaning up the lyrics in rap music.

Apparently, Banner thinks the government should clean up the neighborhoods where drugs and prostitution is rampant rather than cleaning up the language putting a light on those neighborhoods. Whether or not the crude language is spoken or written, the problems in the hood will still exist.

The committee meeting is about censorship versus free expression of ideas. Some are calling it an "Imus and Andy" reaction while to others this is simply a business and marketing issue. What is clear though is that since the social problem is too big to tackle by the government, they are trying to tackle the language problem instead.

Wrapping up rap lyrics in bubblegum wrap is no solution. though. Hip-hop must not be stopped, crude or not, that's all we got, to tell the truth, however loose about the bad and the good in the hood. Understood?

posted by Muse Dog @ 10:11 AM