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BET NEWS Presents HIP HOP vs. AMERICA, a Powerful Special Addressing the current state of hip hop
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Tha Following comment is courtesy of Keith Boykin Producer and creator of the 10 part series
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
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Because mostly impoverished people think that obtaining those things is the only imperative ideal in life as opposed to gaining and education and productively contributing to society.
no thats there way if showing that that they have overcome poverty and the negatives of society and they have been shown to do that by the media i mean how are the ppl in upscale homes any better they buy big homes build big fences and live in "ristricted" areas so really is it so bad that they buy a little bit of"bling" it's just showing there escape from a harsh reality
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