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=Urban Culture: Superficial or Not??=

"Its becoming harder and harder to deny that violence on TV doesn’t affect children. The typical child watches far more hours of TV by the time they are 18 than time they spend in school." ([|http://www.allaboutcounseling.com/culture.htm#cul10)]

"Rap music has emerged as one of the most distinctive and controversial music genres of the past decade. A significant part of hip hop culture, [1] rap articulates the experiences and conditions of African-Americans living in a spectrum of marginalized situations ranging from racial stereotyping and stigmatizing to struggle for survival in violent ghetto conditions. In this cultural context, rap provides a voice to the voiceless, a form of protest to the oppressed, and a mode of alternative cultural style and identity to the marginalized. Rap is thus not only music to dance and party to, but a potent form of cultural identity. It has become a powerful vehicle for cultural political expression" (Rap, Black Rage and Racial Difference, Steve Best and Douglass Kellner, http://enculturation.gmu.edu/2_2/best-kellner.html)

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"Rap music is thus highly complex and many-sided with contradictory effects. It is clearly a formidable mode of cross-cultural communication, enabling white audiences to listen to black voices and assimilate black views that they might otherwise miss. Rap music makes the listener painfully aware of differences between black and white, rich and poor, male and female. Rap music brings to white audiences the uncomfortable awareness of black suffering, anger, and violence. More upscale and privileged audiences are enabled to experience the painful effects of deprivation and pain suffered in the urban ghettos. They can also confront grotesque caricatures of its own mainstream celebrations of wealth and materialism via the often gross in-your-face recounting of their new found wealth by black rap artists." (Rap, Black Rage and Racial Difference, Steve Best and Douglass Kellner, http://enculturation.gmu.edu/2_2/best-kellner.html)

"At its worst, G-rap is itself racist, sexist, and glorifies violence, being little but a money-making vehicle that is part of the problem rather than the solution. Many of its images and models are highly problematic, such as the gangsta rap celebration of the outlaw, pimp, hedonistic pleasure seeker, and drug dealer. Yet rap is a contested terrain with its most virulent sexism contested by other rap artists who also attempt to provide an array of alternatives to the dubious figures of gangster rap. Some rap is random in its circulation of violence and anger, channelling it indiscriminately against the entire world, while other rap artists correctly target anger against the actual forces of oppression that have historically subjugated the black community. In short, G-rap is but a part of a much broader and more multifaceted hip hop culture that has become a dominant cultural form and style in the present era." (Rap, Black Rage and Racial Difference, Steve Best and Douglass Kellner, http://enculturation.gmu.edu/2_2/best-kellner.html)

Un- Superficial
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Can you picture my prophecy? Stress in the city, the cops is hot for me The projects is full of bullets, the bodies is droppin There ain't no stoppin me Constantly movin while makin millions Witnessin killings, leavin dead bodies in abandoned buildings Carries to children cause they're illin Addicted to killin and the appeal from the cap peelin Without feelin, but will they last or be blasted? Hard headed bastard Maybe he'll listen in his casket -- the aftermath More bodies being buried -- I'm losing my homies in a hurry They're relocating to the cemetary Got me worried, stressin, my vision's blurried The question is will I live? No one in the world loves me I'm headed for danger, don't trust strangers Put one in the chamber whenever I'm feelin this anger Don't wanna make excuses, cause this is how it is What's the use unless we're shootin no one notices the youth It's just me against the world baby

Could somebody help me? I'm out here all by myself See ladies in stores, Baby Capone's, livin wealthy Pictures of my birth on this Earth is what I'm dreamin Seein Daddy's semen, full of crooked demons, already crazy and screamin I guess them nightmares as a child had me scared, but left me prepared for a while Is there another route? For a crooked Outlaw Veteran, a villian, a young thug, who one day shall fall

Everday there's mo' death, and plus I'm dough-less I'm seein mo' reasons for me to proceed with thievin Scheme on the scheming and leave they peeps grieving Cause ain't no bucks to stack up, my nuts is backed up I'm bout to act up, go load the Mac up, now watch me klacka Tried makin fat cuts, but yo it ain't workin And Evil's lurking, I can see him smirking when I gets to pervin, so what? Go put some work in, and make my mail, makin sales Risking 25 with a 'L', but oh well

With all this extra stressin The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath When will I finaly get to rest? Through this supression they punish the people that's askin questions And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions Be grateful for blessings Don't ever change, keep your essence The power is in the people and politics we address Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic And when you get stranded And things don't go the way you planned it Dreamin of riches, in a position of makin a difference Politicians and hypocrites, they don't wanna listen If I'm insane, it's the fame made a brother change It wasn't nuttin like the game It's just me against the world

Superficial
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 * I Know You See It lyrics**- Young Joc

Inny meeny minny (minny) mo (mo) How many bitches from the club won't go I know you see it (see it), I know you see it I'm like inny meeny minny mo (mo) How many niggas in the club won't go I know you see it (I know you see it), I know you see it (I know you see it)

Now you can call me tipdrill (drill), playing my song (song) Throw a couple ones, then she throw away her thong (thong) When she bust it open, take a picture with my phone (with my phone) She love my cologne, I call it perk body zone (body zone) Now she * poppin', it's goin' down (it's goin' down) Slap the waitress on the booty, tell her "get another round" (another round) And when I make it rain, money all over the ground (the ground) Fresh force ones, Sean John button down (button down) And then I'm like "oh (oh) boy (boy), a clique fulla stars (stars)" Big four fifth, big, and big cars At the end of the day, when it's all said and done (done) I need four freaks 'cause I need more than one (one)

What would our Leaders Think???
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