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The Controversy with Don Imus was great because it raised some important issues. People are quick to talk about hip hop and blame the rappers, but lets be real, the females in these rap videos allow themselves to be oppressed, disrespected, and treated like objects. If you let a rapper slide a credit card through the crack of you butt, there is not a lot of self respect in place. Women need to take a stand and stop supporting hip hop, and if they can't do that and would rather dance to a hot beat in the club, then shut up and STOP COMPLAINING! Yes you have the right to listen to whatever music you want to and enjoy it without the social responsibility that weighs down Hip Hop. But the black community has to be more aware and more socially responsible, because they don't have the priviledge of ignorance that the white community has. Eminen can go shoot somebody right now, and noone will attribute his criminality to his race as a white man, but let 50 cent go and shoot somebody, you best believe that the black community and hip hop will be taking the blow for that one. It is not Snoop Dogg's responsibility to come up with clean lyrics and stop calling women B's and Hoes, he has the right to freedom of speech just like the rest of us (including myself:)-but money talks. If snoop could sell millions of records talking about the importance of family and education, then maybe he would actually do that. But concious rappers don't sell out and top the charts. Their lyrics are in direct coorelation to the demands of dominant America. The big picture is that white suburbia is the biggest financial supporter of hip hop music and culture, and buying into hip hop only confirms their stereotypes about the black community. 4 out of 5 people who buy a hip hop album are white, so what does that tell you? White folks want to take a voyeuristic journey into the black culture without the repercussions of actually having to deal with it. Without the repercussion of growing up in the slums, of have teachers with low expectations of you, of households with broken families, of the constant barrage of racism and stereotypes; nope they can just pop in any hip hop album and feel like they know black America, feel like they are down with a g thang baby... Which brings me to the main question, who is the real hoe? If hip hop is suppose to be about freedom of speech, and represent the people, and filled with these so called hardcore, real rappers, then some of these rappers need to get some balls/cahones and stand up to white owned corporations who encourage the buffoonery and mistral imagery of hip hop. Otherwise, they become the real hoes, who do whatever they need to do to make money, even if it is degrading their own people.

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