Current state of hip hop PT_8

Tha Following comment is courtesy of Keith Boykin Producer and creator of the 10 part series

This is volume 8 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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[gabo802]

how the hell is rappin bout bitches, hoes, rims, gold, etc letting people know whats going on.. no other race of people call their women hoes and bitches, the white man not doing that you are. if u really wanna let people know whats going on,lol you would not be rapping bout the things you rap about, and these dumb ass people in there clapping. im so disappointed in my people. wonder why they look at us like fuckin animals man.y'all wake up please. people stop buying that garbage!!mind control

[finglian]

how come dead prez wasnt in any of these.put some real people on the subject not money hungry sellouts.

[Chuchi90sBaby]

@medit84truth Agreed.

[funkateer17]

@medit84truth White recording artists generally don't say that shit in their songs. If they did, the media would humiliate the, calling them "white trash". For some reason they don't do that with black artists. Maybe they're scared to. Maybe they're just being inadvertantly racist, preuming it's a cultural thing that all black people do.

[bavo123]

Can anyone please tell me the name of the instrumental at 9:06?

[varner414]

Mike Jones was wrong, it was a playboy against america

[ashley722911]

ppl are taking this way to serious, hip-hop is there for entertainment thats it!!!! It's just music if you don't like don't listen or buy it... point.blank.period... songs are writtin stories of a mirror image of what someone has gone through.... How The Hell Can Blame Hip-Hop For America's Problems....

[199rem]

you how yyou gayy jee

[tubelightx]

@Bellcasus I don't think so but go on then explain it to us!

[Bellcasus]

@tubelightx NO He Not Fool. u Miss Interpret Of What He Sayin Bitch

[PrinceG28]

one question to any of those "rappers/artist". When was the last time you produced a song of Unity ?

[medit84truth]

@gabo802 "no other race of people call their women hoes and bitches, the white man not doing that you are."

What planet do you live on? You mean to tell me you never heard a white man call another white woman a slut, bitch, whore, etc. You must not hang around white folk. Also, what about the porn they produce? I understand your concern for black people to have respect for one another, but you actually worsen the esteem of our people by asserting that such behavior is exclusive to us.

-Peace