Oh God. After years and years of nothing but moaning about the profanity and general where-is-this-world-coming-to-ness that is that dirty, dirty hip hop, Bill Cosby offers an alternative. He’s going to have guest rappers on to rap about … sigh … the value of education on his new album. So basically a full CD worth of songs that’ll tell us to ‘be cool, stay in school’. I’m not saying the message is dumb, it’s a good message for the kids, but the holier-than-thou attitude that comes with it is not OK.
Hip hop is a form of music and music is still a form of art. People should be able to express themselves the way they want, whether it makes sense to you or not. There are people out there that make paintings with poop; I won’t look at, or buy their stinky, ass art, but I also won’t start painting toilet bowls to spread the message that poop belongs in the toilet and nowhere else. I said poop a lot in this post, sorry ’bout that. If you’re worried about the children explain to them that songs are forms of entertainment, not recipes to live your life by. Just like Gunther Von Hagens’ Body World Exhibition isn’t an invite to cut people open and look at their still beating hearts.
Erykah Badu ft. Common – Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop)
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