3/01/2007

BYE BYE HIP HOP???

Sales of Hip Hop records have slid 40% over the past two years. This year is the first that no Hip Hop "album" was in the Top Ten. It seems that there is a real Black backlash, at long last. For a while it was just college women pissing into the wind, but now even some of the rappers are at least conscious. A really good piece over at Done With Mirrors. Many are blaming BET for causing the continuing violent and "ho" ridden lyrics, saying that they won't play anything else so the kids have nothing else to listen to.

Let this also be a tip to the aforementioned Done With Mirrors, a very intelligent blog that has a focus on the arts, in a libertarian kind of way. Give it a look.

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