Submitted by Tai aka DJ Bubonic, Feb 18, 2008 14:18

Hip Hop is a passionate art form that consists of more than just music. By allowing the crap that the media is trying to label as Hip Hop to pollute and dilute the true art is like allowing the media to claim victory over urban America's only true voice. An educated person knows that urban America does not get the attention that it needs. The media covers it up by focusing on crap like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Hip Hop has been the voice for urban America since it's inception. Not only to educate the youth of urban America but to educate the rest of the country of the struggles that still exist for urban youth. The media recognizes that as a threat and uses it's power and persuasion to flood the market with crap like Soulja Boi, Hurricane Chris, 50 Cent, Mike Jones, Akon, T-Pain, etc... The youth then sees those figures and idolizes them. They see the big chains and grills and think they will be cool if they have that stuff. The youth hears about getting drunk and exploiting women and assumes that is what they are supposed to do because the figures they see on t.v. do it. Instead of the youth being inspired by the art they are enslaved to the idea of becoming cool. Our generation can no longer sit around and let that happen. Allowing such is admitting defeat and giving up on the young minds that are trapped in our urban societies.

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