Congressional Hearings on Hip Hop - Panel 2 (8 of 9)

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce hears testimony from artists and music executives on the state of hip-hop. The event took place Sept 25, 2007. David Banner, Master P were two artists that spoke.

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[TheSpliftight]

I hate that some dumb fucker messed up the audio, so that we can't hear what's being said. Whoever did this is a stupid motherfucker.

[Beastmastermassacre]

Naw....rappers are slaves to the corporations who own and control record labels...but why do they want to control it?....money...and the fact that young black males have power in hip hop....tupac scared the hell out of the government and corp....by the stuff he was saying against them...so now they gotta have control.

[Blackmilitant421]

Of course there were black on black crimes....but the murder rate reached its highest point when most rap was about killing. Just like NWA making the song Fuck the Police...violence against police rose 300%...is that a coincidence? If the rapper Cam'ron could get millions of inner city Black men to wear pink...what makes you think that rappers (who are paid by the white and wealthy) can't control Black kids to do anything?

[rodmanian]

Because black men didn't kill each other before gangsta rap? You see conspiracy everywhere but your point would be more relevant if you'd come up with actual facts, proofs. No black on black crime in the 50's? 60's? 70's? U sure?

[crazycoolone]

Don't get me wrong; I don't think that people that write or deliver creatively on a mic are all knowing. For many, they don't know how to run a business let alone a community service based business. I've seen pro athletes absolutely F-UP a good idea by putting their boyz or family members in charge of something & THEY were out of their league. The boyz & fam. had NO IDEA of how to handle ANYTHING other than being paid, glorified, groupies.

[crazycoolone]

The same thing can be said of professional sports. Only in America can you have young men who are 17-19 years old who are given multi-million dollar contracts to play ball. They don't give the support/ money / airplay to people who are trying to help the community and get them to think. If a person is too aggressive about helping the community, they tend to ignore or vilify them.

They LOVE promoting ignorance and apathy.

[Blackmilitant421]

These rappers need to do more in the community. Because they get millions to destroy young black men...don't you see? Gangster rappers work for the government to get blacks to kill each other.The government wants blacks dead or poor so they have to hire black people to convince other blacks to make that happen!!

[crazycoolone]

I don't think that rap artists should be responsible for doing community service for handling services that the American Red Cross does. These artists often have their friends and family around them who are more incompetant than anything in doing anything other than funneling money into parties and foolishness.

Most people that do community service and social services are WOMEN. So why don't they push for Black women to run some things even in Hip Hop???

[425854]

lol yeah i thought i was the only one who caught that.

[FAPPpublications]

"I come to work every single "Dre" day. 8:12-13 Hip Hop got a spritual hold on these suckers.....