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Added on Sep 7, 2010
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This is volume 7 of our 10 part...
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This is volume 7 of our 10 part series on the coverage of BET's Hip Hop vs. America.
As we continue this discussion, we will bring you bonus footage from past interviews with panelist and other members of the hip hop community world wide.
BET NEWS Presents HIP HOP vs. AMERICA, a Powerful Special Addressing the Current State of Hip-Hop
Honest, Candid Town Hall Meetin BET NEWS Presents HIP HOP vs. AMERICA, a Powerful Special Addressing the Current State of Hip-Hop
Honest, Candid Town Hall Meeting Features Voices Across the Full Spectrum of Opinion Including Nelly, T.I., Chuck D, MC Lyte, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Stanley Crouch, Cornel West, Mike Jones, Master P, Kim Osorio, Dr. Ben Chavis, Judg
Parts I and II to Premiere on Tuesday, September 25 and Wednesday, September 26 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, With Part III to Air Exclusively on BET ON BLAST
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Hip-hop culture and controversy have always made for familiar bedfellows. Yet, in the wake of the Imus controversy and in a year when the genre's sales have tumbled, hip-hop finds itself under an exceptional amount of scrutiny and pressure -- and the stakes have never been higher. BET NEWS takes a powerful and compelling look at the state of hip-hop today in a three-part series titled HIP HOP vs. AMERICA. Hosted by BET's own Toure and Jeff Johnson, this special showcases a candid, heated forum that will allow audiences to hear the opinions of prominent leaders in the hip-hop industry, the political realm, academia and the Black church
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jungle. There is no real 'right' or 'wrong'
when it comes to people making money, and
exploiting those around them. If that
disturbs you, than you are living in a
fantasy world where everyone follows your
strict codes and conduct. What one person
views as immoral, others my view as moral. I
DO agree with the statement that hip-hop has
lost it's creativity. All you have to do is
make music that is the flavor of the week.
It's mostly all the same.
for negative hip hop from the PE era. If
Schoolly D and Ice T came out today, they
wouldn't sell either. If a P.E.-ish group
had modern lyrics, modern musical concepts,
and authentic creativity, I think they would
sell a lot. The bottom line is, music
sucks today regardless of whether it's
gangsta or conscious because the artists
don't know that much about music theory.
to rappers like BIG, Jay Z, and Snoop Dogg.
Plus at the time they came out hip-hop still
stood for something. If PE were to come out
today they wouldn't sell as much.
as the rappers that have negaitve meassgaes.
drastically changed from what it was 10 years
ago. Not as many videos, no late night bull
crap, etc. The same people who keep blaming
BET are the same people who don't even watch
it and don't know their format is different
from years ago.
period. If you were an artist and loved the
art of music more than the potential of the $
it can bring, you'd probably make more
conscious music. The dude in the red shirt @
1:45 is right.
of this discusion IS how much they "hate the
game", rather than any specific player, I
agree wholeheatedly with that statement.
that's pathetic, take responsibility for the
frailty, immaturity, sultry behaviours and
sex-fueled decisions of SOME of the members
of your own gender.
would do the same shit the rappers doing
2:03 , please
black person IE hip hop artist becomes
successful then they are selling out. Be
angry, be mad, but do not let your ignorance
frown upon anyone making it. Critics and
opinions are a dime a dozen. Someone works
hard to make their way...There is Always
someone there to tell them why they did it
the way they did. Which is seems to be the
Wrong Way. Hate the Game Not The Player....
just confused about why you would stick up
for Nelly when he hates Black women so much.
on it nelly!
early 80s and 90s was poetry and real now hip
pop is digreading black women. Women in hip
pop is degrading each over. NElly an adult
music video playing on B.E.T, is a channel
for black ppl you watch that channel at night
is like black porn. Rather than portyaing
black ppl in a posetive way. Is portaying
them in a bad way, And you wonder why white
ppl think black ppl are trash!
hop it's just some rappers
sense.
ridiculous. Strip clubs only allow adults in
and the women are the one's in control with
security guards to assure their safety. His
music video is being watched by school
children. It's even here on youtube!
the young people against the old people.
against old black people? its just a
generation gap