A RAPPER WHO'S STARTING TO GET ITWu Tang's RZA: Hip-Hop is Glorifying "Hell"
Boy was rapper Nas prophetic. Now, others are adding to the chorus who believe "Hip-Hop is Dead." Wu Tang's RZA - who has found a niche scoring films in Hollyweird and acting - recently weighed in:
"Hip-hop is just unbalanced. Right now, rappers are glorifying their hell. How you gonna tell me it's cool to live in the ghetto? Who wants to live where you got rats, roaches, pissy elevators, shootings, killings, rapings, drug addicts, alcoholics, all in a four block radius?
"Now, out of nine Wu-Tang members, seven are felons... We were the problem of our communities, but we never bragged about it. We kept moving on about life. "But right now, these hip-hoppers are stuck on one thing.
They stuck on sex and violence and drugs and partying. Life is way more than that. Especially the day after the party ends. When you get the f**k up the next day, what you gonna do?" Source
A RAPPER STILL IN DENIAL WHO DESPERATELY NEEDS A BEATDOWN
T.I: Hip-Hop Is Being Used As A Scapegoat
T.I. recently told MTV:"If you want to fix America, you have to start at George Bush and work your way down - you can't start at hip-hop and work your way up.
"Me, I got children and I'm with my children every day I can be there. They know if they call somebody out there a name, if they disrespect a woman, if they do anything to imitate a 50 Cent or a Snoop Dogg or a T.i. or what they see on Mtv... they gonna have to deal with Daddy.
"(Some) parents let their children blame it on hip-hop. I think that's the beginning of the problem, personally. I think hip-hop is being used as the scapegoat."