by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action
I'm a huge fan of hip hop music. In fact, I didn't even start to like music until hip hop came along. I will continue to be a fan of hip hop music, but as a black scholar, I feel that part of my job is to ask questions that we may need to answer as a society.
The question for today is, "What's wrong with hip hop music?" Perhaps the question I've asked is presumptuous, since many of us don't see a problem at all. I've sat in the car for hours with my teenage daughters, listening to one song after another, each of them returning to basically the same themes: Money, sex, weapons or drugs.
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I had a friend just recently blog about this topic and its connection to Waka Flocka Flame's horrible interview with 106 & Park . He basically says that too much media attention is given to one area of Hip-Hop. It's a interesting read:
http://untitledcompositions.blogspot.com/2010/09/politics-of-intelligence-hip-hop.html?spref=fb
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