I was having a talk with a couple of my cohorts the other day, when the topic of mainstream hip hop came up. We were talking about who we think its good, whos whack, the usual, when we started talking about the impact this kind of stuff has on everyone today. I mentioned that I thought it was strange how you didn’t see 17 year old kids with 20″ rims on their cars 20 years ago, or videos of people “ghost riding their whips”
the way you do now, and it got me thinking about the messages music has been sending out and the actual effects it has on the youth. After about a half hour of back and forth debate on the topic, was that bottom line is, the message being sent out is really fucking with the way kids think and act these days. Coincidentally the same day I was messing around on youtube when I found this video:
Haha, I wonder if this was the kind of stuff Little John was spitting, if it would make a difference. Cracked me up though anways.
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Be prepared to talk more about thin in class!