Please Excuse The Language, "It's Hard But It's Fair!"

Being real, keeping it real---real Foolish! How in the hell did we allow our culture to be reduced to images that belong in the gutter. Our rich cultural heritage has been digitially reproduced and transformed into a misogynistic nightmare. One in which young girls walk around showing more flesh and exuding more sexuality than the burlesque shows of old. Teenage boys see themselves as pimps and players, and have no sense of what it means to respect women. The youth are constantly bombarded with sexuality explicit images of what it  means to be kool. Black youth in America have always set the standard for what it means to be kool . Their genuine creativity and sense of style has created fads that transcend popular American culture.

Today the mass media sets the standard for being kool. These images that are created speak to the lower nature of the youth. People who are morally bankrupt and are willing to do anything to make a dollar, create these images in corporate boardrooms. There seems to be no limit to the vulgar images that saturate the minds of the the youth. The mass media is a multidimentional monster with tentacles that touch every aspect of daily life . The recording industry uses its vast influence to push these vile images on young people who lack the social skills to differentiate art from life.

During the mid-1980's with the emergence of "gangsta rap" youth culture in America began a downward spiral. American youths were hypnotized by the gun toting and drug dealing thugs portrayed in music videos. The decaying inner city became a breeding ground for gangs. As crack cocaine arrived on the scene, the stage was set for the rise of a counter culture that would begin to erode the fabric of American society. Record companies began to exploit this phenomenon by mass producing these vile images. America's inner cities pronuced a new  musical genre that traps the minds of the youth in an endless cycle of "Guns, Hoes, Bitches and Dope".

More than two decades after NWA screamed, "fuck the police". The recording industry and rap music in general has taken on a life of its own. A genre that had the revolutionary feel of the sixties has been transformed into the vechicle of self-destruction. No longer does it represent the frustration and the hopelessness that exist in the ghetto. Inner city life has never been a thing of beauty but the images that bombard our lives daily are a collage of negative stereotypes that threatens our very existence.