To hip-hop:

In the news alot recently have been several pleas to hip-hop music to clean up the lyrics they have. I think that this is a step in the right direction, mainly because it is something that needs to be done for the good of all communities.

But once again on the flip side i think that this attempt is a useless one. I doubt that just asking them to clean up their lyrics is going to allow them to come under realization such as "Wow. I can benefit from what's being said" or "Yea i really should clean up my lyrics." They are just going to keep doing what they are doing, because they are making money, and people enjoy the music that they make.

But should the fact that young, impressionable minds are at stake if rappers choose to keep rapping about drugs, sex, and violence? Even if it is not any of those things in particular, just the expilcit lyrics that are used, can incite children to talk to adults that way?

This is a rough choice on all sides. On one side, you have your freedom of speech at stake, the other young minds, and the mindsthatg are easily influenced, and on the third side, which probably matters most to all of them, is the money they make from keeping the lyrics the way most people like it.

I am so glad I'm not a rapper...