Hip Hop vs. America (The World) V. 9

This powerful segment in our 10 part series on Hip Hop vs. The World, discusses the images that we see in Hip Hop videos. On the panel is Melyssa Ford, a former video vixen, turned actress/mogul, who speaks from a point of experience on how the game has changed since the days when she was in music videos.

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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[michaelchristopherj]

@odthiambo Why do you women feel like if one woman is "disrespected," all are. Is this not more sexist than the man "disrespecting" the woman? Biologically men are geared to go after women for their fertility status (hip to waist ratio, breasts, buttocks) and women go after men for social status to know that he can take care of her children. Treating women as sex objects is no more disrespectful than women reading romance novels which treat men as status symbols. Yet we men don't cry about it.

[MrTheDodster]

I bet Dyson can rap a mean freestyle... he has more one liners then Soulja Boy does on hotel coffee tables with Kat Stacks filming

[sierra123ful]

HIPHOP can't be as real as it was back in the day wanna know why because when you start speaking the truth and whats really going in the black community and how we alone can be powerful you get killed Examples: Tupac, biggie, soulja slim, pimp c..so thats why we have the bullshit today on the radio

[beloit22]

@buggeazy102 and thats "SHIT" LMAO!

[buggeazy102]

all hip hop vids have to offer is a FATASS

[buggeazy102]

@beloit22 yess she is and ?

[beloit22]

@buggeazy102 She's Aint-Shit....No, wait....she "Is" a Dike.

[buggeazy102]

@beloit22 what? she got many hits fool go google it

[QUANTUMMECHANIC720]

please check out my blog on Black Atheism -THE PEOPLE’S MIC

thepeoplesmic.blogspot.com

I also wrote a blog on the N-word. Please let me know what you think.

[beloit22]

MC Lyte is NOT a "hip-hop ledgend" SHE'S A ONE-HIT-WONDER!

[albondeb]

why have i got no sound after the first minute?

[metalore]

What video is that at 1:20 with the gold star on the white shirt over the booty?