>>>Are you saying that all rap artists should make >their music for a hypothetical child in a vacum
>>>away from society somewhere?
>No, what I'm saying is what
>I said.
it all makes perfect sense now.

> Is there not one
>person that you feel is
>more responsible than the other?
I don't know Jeru The Damaga and Juvenile personally, no way am I going to decide who is more responsible. You don't think the world has hypocrites, or does it just not matter if you preach the right things?

> Are you arguing that
>the children are not watching
>and listening?
No, the opposite - I am saying that children are listening, and I am talking about the situations those children may be in. Providing context. Not going back to an imaginary child who exists in a black whole in the universe and has a one copy of Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip-Hop and one copy of Doggystyle.

>Our children are not hypothetical.
So why do you treat them that way?? You insist on recognizing them, but when I attempt to provide a context from which they might be listening to the music, you dismiss that.

>Would you rather the children
>sing Amazing Grace or Back
>that thing up??????
SO WHAT? There's nothing wrong with Back That Azz Up, it's not even an offensive song to me, it's more playful than anything. But what do you mean by the statement? How do you think it should effect how artists make their work, and how the audience treats it? Do you think all art, ever, that is not along the lines of Amazing Grace should be discarded? Do you think it should be relegated to adult-only stores, like porn or something? Do you think no one should make it, or it shouldn't be valued as art? And whose standards should we use, anyway? Yours? Why?

>>Using Brand Nubians as an example, Slow Down is not necessarily a progressive or positive
>>song from a womanist perspective.
>Perhaps for YOU as a woman.....But
>calling a woman back from
>a foul life - using
>her body to get what
>she wants - is not
>positive?
Not even getting into this, but your way attitude about the song proves to me that I would never want someone like you being in control of the production of art any more than I would Tipper Gore or Delores Tucker. There is no difference. I don't think any one person should have that responsibility. Do you? Do you think it should be you? Cause it really sounds like you feel that way.

"I'm every MC by the name of Jay Dee" - Jay Dee