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Freaks Hoes and Flows vs. I Love the Kids

April 15, 2007 | Tags: Hip Hop, Porn

My name is A-Plus and I’m addicted to porn.

The current state of the game parallels the adult entertainment industry. I don’t like everything that comes out these days. In fact, I don’t like MOST of what comes out these days, but I don’t have to.

What I do like is that grown folks can go to the club and walk it out, snap, and simulate fornication to the latest club jam.

What I don’t like is the fact that the children are doing the same thing.

So what’s all this have to do with the adult entertainment industry? The answer is quite simple. If you were a horny young adolescent like me, you secretly raided somebody’s porn stash and got your rocks off to porn stars with big hair and 70’s disco music. You also had the good sense to put it back where you found it when you were done.

And why did you do that?

Because you knew that porn was something you weren’t supposed to be watching at such a young age.

Commercial Hip Hop (and pop culture in general) has taken the “wrong” factor out of child hood. When you snuck to watch that adult movie, or listened to that CD with “explicit lyrics” on your walkmans back in the day, you KNEW that what you were doing was W-R-O-N-G.

You couldn’t even put together a viable defense when you got caught.

On the flip side, not only is the “wrong” factor been thrown out the window, the theory of “a time and place for everything” is lost on the current generation as well. Add to that the fact that grown folks don’t slap the shit out of kids when they get out of line and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.

Don’t believe me? Take a trip to your local junior high or high school and see what kids will say in front of teachers or other authority figures.

We need some standards in Hip Hop. There’s no reason that MC Such and Such should have his strip club song on 106 and Park.

Now, the strip club song at the strip club, with grown strippers, shaking their grown asses, I’m all for it (hey, I’m still a man).

The strip club song, on early morning television, with pre-teens shaking it in their Sponge Bob undies, I’m not with that.

If the kids are going to do wrong, we can at least make them work for it… like we did.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the writer and not necessarily those of HipHopDX.com or Cheri Media Group.

Everything doesn't need a defense

April 15, 2007 | Tags: don imus, Hip Hop

I promise, this is the last Don Imus related piece (maybe).

I wrote Callin Out Names: Don Imus, Hip Hop and Nappy Headed Hoes not to detract from the original issue, but to check Hip Hop and how we in the culture treat each other. No more, no less.

Since a lot of folks are trying to put Hip Hop on the hot seat, let’s be real about a couple of things. The old white people are saying the same shit that we’ve been saying for months (Don’t believe me, go back through some of the DX editorials). All Hip Hop doesn’t need, nor deserve a defense.

I’ll defend dead prez, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli, Common, etc. to the end.

Snap music… is out in the cold.

Bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks… sorry for ya.

I never knew a love like this… I got your back.

With all this talk of a blanket defense of Hip Hop, we need to remember that everything in the name of Hip Hop (or rap) doesn’t, or shouldn’t represent who we are as a culture. To be fair to the game, Every woman isn’t a queen, but every woman isn’t a bitch or a hoe either. The problem is that I see more bitches and hoes on TV than queens. Everything that wants to be lumped under the banner (or better yet, the guise) of Hip Hop isn’t always worth the CD or vinyl it’s pressed on, nor doesn’t warrant an intelligent defense by anyone with half a brain.

The biggest problem here is balance, or the lack of on main stream airwaves. But I’ll be damned if I put the same energy (or ANY energy at all) into defending the profanity in the bullshit as I will the profanity in the substance.