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Hip-Hop

Public conscience has dumbed down under electronically hyped but primitive sounds, words, and social insults of hip-hop sneers and a stomping beat. It generates a billion dollars in sales, thereby winning friends in high commercial places. Beyond the profit circle, concerned black leaders count the social cost.

Cedric Muhammad (2006) thinks rapsters and hip-hoppers ought to stop behaving like strutting juveniles and grow up. He draws an analogy between Puffy and Shyne in the hands of the law they hold in contempt, and argues that the popular phenomenon of hip-hop seems collectively immature. The crisis in hip-hop today, he protests, is that in the past 30 years seems unable to learn, and cannot tell a friend from an enemy. Even the superstars use aggression to mask their anxieties. Muhammad calls it a "maturity reversal." Sudden affluence merely increases the display of self-indulgence, and mocks the hard-won gains of black America. ) Kitwana (2005) suggests that the division between the hip-hop generation and the civil rights generations is as vast as the division within the country in 1960 (p.22).

The example of Puffy and the callow Shyne is apt. Muhammad laments that the old star could not constrain his protTgT and so Shyne heads for jail at age 20 for the kind of aggression hip-hop glorifies. Muhammad frames the persistent question:

Why is it so important for artists to never suffer an insult and never tolerate being offended? And why isn't part of grooming young hip-hop artists preparing them for the fact that they will have to control their emotions in public and private settings as they will undoubtedly be approached by fans and others who will on numerous occasions hurl insults their way?

No hip-hop artist can stand an insult from anyone who looks like him or her. They know where reality and art end in their personal lives, but the...

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