>The kid who is stuck listening to radio, only, got way more
>economic issues affecting their lives than
>*insert-your-least-favorite-new-rapper*.

But no one is saying that HipHop culture alone is solely responsible for all that's wrong with blk America...but to act as if a lot of the HipHop music specifically and the culture in general doesn't impact the lives of many of its *young* listeners in a negative way is being willfully naive at best and disingenuous at worse
>
>The kids who aren't stuck listening to radio tend to have more
>options all the way around, beyond music choice, so the antics
>of Weezy F Baby means less to them than their Momma's
>performance review.

First of all, kids today don't just listen to the radio anymore, they're more up on ways to access the music they want to hear than we (their parents) are...and I can tell you that most teens I tutored in an at-risk program wasn't listening to Lupe Fiasco...they seem to invariably prefer the more hardcore rap music that in some sways gives them some sort of validation...

>Look, you know what all of this focus on hiphop and youth in
>the past 20 years REALLY seems like?
>
>A culture that's to afraid to challenge the social
>institutions that are killing us and would rather waste time
>chasing after interchangeable 20 year old pop acts

And to show you how two ppl can look at the very same thing and come away w/two totally differnt observations...because I see this as blk ppl still unwilling to chellenge OURSELVES...because we as a community don't have any workable solutions to any of our problems, therefore it's easier to lay the blame at the larger society as if we don't bare any social responsibility..thus the reason why we can rally en mass when a policeman or some over zealous wanna be cop kills a teen but we as a community are for the most part silent when it comes to rallying ans organizing to stop the killings in Chicago

Becaus it's ALWAYS easier to blame someone else for problems that you're still responsible for solving no matter who's to blame

At what point do we start taking some accountability for the part we play in our own destruction