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Immediately after the Imus flap, you spoke out against hip-hop censorship. Now, you want rappers and media outlets to stop using these terms over the airways. Doesn't this make you a hypocrite? -Keyon Jeff, Houma, La.No. I think it is some self-analysis. The outrage [over the Imus situation] made me think about it. I am allowed to have a different opinion...
Even if you eliminate these three words from hip-hop culture, what about other rap themes that are dangerous to society, like "no snitching" anthems? -Brendan Ripp, New York CityS---, when I was a kid I didn't snitch either. I don't know if you watch them gangster movies where the Italian guys come out of the church and they don't talk-- the sad truth is that we can talk about "no snitching" as if it were a rap code, but it is a street code. We need to create a dialogue between the police and community. That...
Wouldn't it be much more advisable to refocus your ideas on how best we can empower black people educationally, economically and otherwise? -Agboola Kehinde, LondonMy office has a whole floor called Rush Community Affairs. We have the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and other organizations. Plus, name me a rapper, and I will tell you the name of his charity. Even the worst rappers that you think you hate. You tell me 50 Cent, and I will tell you about G-Unity [his foundation for kids...
...there a hip-hop musician you feel the world should listen to more? -Cara Lahr in Rockville, MDSo many are relevant in different ways. I love when the Black Eyed Peas ask, "Where is the love?? but I also love when NWA said "F--- the Police" The discussion between police and community started at that point. If you life in extreme poverty sometimes you see the police as the occupying force. That they are there in some way to keep you in poverty and keep the system in place. And whether it is right or wrong...
...angry, would you give him your book, some money or the Bible? -Ju Huang in Stamford, CTI would give him my book, because there is nothing in that book that isn't already in the Bible, but maybe I say it in a different way. At the Hip-Hop Summit in Detroit, I saw Eminem one time speaking to the audience. He told them that with "hard work, dedication, self study and faith and you can realize any dream." I saw kids in the audience crying, he said it so eloquently. A preacher couldn't tell them. A prophet couldn...