The Never-Ending Story
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
I’ve written about it… time and time again… I’ve beaten it into the ground.
Hip Hop and Don Imus… the ruiners of the Black Community…
Yet, EVERYONE is still talking about it… The Hip Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) held a meeting and released what I hate to admit is a meaningless statement… Bleep the words “b***h”, “h*e” and “N****r” on radio edits of songs…
Um, don’t they already bleep those words?
They don’t bleep “Brain”, “Dome”, “Crack”, “Coke”, “Dope”, “Drugs” or “Guns” - all words that, while they are not considered curse words, are indicative of problems in our community. And don’t think that just because you tell these rappers that they can’t say certain words that you are affecting change.
These are rappers we are talking about here. They got a made up phrase, “Bling-Bling”, into the Oxford Dictionary. They will just make up a new word that means the same as the old word. Before you know it, your four year-old will be running around with a new phrase that perplexes you.
MC Lyte says that hip hop owes women an apology. So does my friend Chuck, the Co-Founder of Allhiphop.com. I agree. If someone was always talking bad about me, and people like me, I would start feeling a little bad about myself. In some ways, I guess I do.
And yet, I’m not blameless. I can’t express how many times my best friends and I have called each other “B***h” and “H*e”. I mean, I am pretty sure that I have called someone that I love a “nappy headed ho” because I thought it was funny.
I don’t anymore.
