I did a google for rap lyrics. My hair stood up on the back of my neck with the crap I found.
That was NOT the rap music I use to dance to....way back in the old days...I guess I should say now.
I remember rap when it first broke out on the music scene. I was in grade school. When the crack epidemic hit the inner cities, rap turned to gangsta rap and it was never the same. Plus, you could see how internalising the music affected the listeners. The apologists for gangsta rap like to point out how the majority of rap music buyers are white but so what? I listen to some gangsta rap but if you're not living the lifestyle and surrounded by that peer group, it's just another thing to listen to. It just KILLS me to hear professors espousing this trash as something good for black students. The last thing that poor, inner city kids needs is music reflecting their lives. She should see 'Mad Hot Ballroom'.