Hip Hop parents??????

No doubt! We can say all day that its up to the teens or the parents to infuence or make the right choice when listening to music or watch TV or whatever. But isn't what the entertainment industry is doing is the same thing as dangling a piece of candy in front of a person that is trying to lose weight??

We can tell our kids all day, stay away from drugs and alcohol, abstinence, and safe sex. But an hour later you got either Nelly to "Shake their tailfeather" or Young Joc to "Meet them in the "trap" its going down" or Rick Ross saying that he "made a whole lot of money dealing weight". And you got these half naked video girls shaking their booties. Kids even emulate that on 106 and Park. But we say that its just dancing. OK, the girls think that, but the boys don't. And sometimes the girls don't themselves. I think that the artists should hold their on selves accountable for what they put out. But as long as Mr. Record Executive is making the large checks, they won't! And furthermore I think we give teens too much freedom to make choices

I like to hear positivity in hip hop, but I do not believe that music makes people go and do anything, so I don't see that it's the artist's responsibility.

We spend too much time worrying about music when in actual fact, the real problems within society stem from poverty and social injustice. Let's focus on those things and hold our politicians responsible for their actions instead of wasting our energy on blaming music.

I have an 8 year old daughter and if she wants to look up to anyone, I'd way rather it was Lauryn Hill or MC Lyte than Britney Spears or the Pussycat Dolls.

Teenagers for the most part aren't interested in positive messages in their music, they just want to piss off their parents. It's harmless.

edit: Exactly, Fonzie, exactly. It's not like the postive stuff isn't out there, it's just not selling any more.

Key word: PARENTS, it all traces back to the home, maybe if parents would raise they're children like they mean it, like a real caring parent should (which isnt the case all across america) then their children would grow up to know better than to let some ignorant azz songs or rappers influence them, i mean even if rap music was positive all the time on radio etc., children dont really give a freakin care about abolishing violence and drugs, only your personal peers and surroundings can really play an important role on a child. The media isnt mind control and its not really powerful to the extent that you give it, although its just a small factor near the end of a long chain of problems that lead to violence, drug usage, etc. in the mind of feeble-minded child

First and foremost... Ozzy ate the heads of bats on stage...not Marilyn Manson (both have great music by the way check them out sometime)...and artist can say what every they want on a record for that is what artistic expression is in its truest form...I can't tell an artist hip hop or otherwise to only create music that I want to hear...It wouldn't be fair to the artist or his/her other fans in that respect. Parents should raise their children not Curtis " Half dollar" Jackson.

I think that parents have the primary responsibilty to raise their kids period.

There has always been music that had negative messages.

Hip Hop gets a bad rap. What about crazy azz marilyn manson and his murder death kill lyrics WHILE eating a bat on stage?

What about some old school country bama music talking about lynching blacks in the south likes it's a sport.

I think some people need to get up offa their soap box and stop waiting for hip hop to be responsible.

It's our job as parents to censor music and educate our children about fact and fiction.

An artists job is to make music. It is a parents job to raise their child and anything that child does go or bad is from their teaching. (Even if a child picks up something from an artist the parent is letting their child listen to the music in the first place)

My mother is 38 and Slick Rick is her favorite rapper My dad 41 listens to hip hop but he doesnt have a fav.

Ya.. well.. it is kinda sad pretty much every mainstream "hip hop" song is about sex... but what artists should/shouldn't do is really not important to them anymore.. they wanna sell more records! And as the saying goes, sex sells.

That's why underground is the only way to go nowadays..

They should make positive music but at the end of the day it's the individual that decides if they want to kiss a girl, kill a man or take it up the anus. Do not blame others for your own stupidity.

no no no they dont have 2 do anything like that they can make the kind of music they want 2 if they r feeling bad then they will most likely make less positive music its just the way it works