Hip Hop under the kosh...

First it was the fallout from the Don Imus 'nappy headed hoes' comment now it’s the 'stop snitchin' theology. If you haven't already heard hip hop has been getting a lot of flack, and with that a lot of airtime, in the u.s recently.

Last week Russell Simmons led a hip hop panel including Common, Kevin Liles and Dr. Benjamin Chavis (president of the Hip-Hop Summit Network) on Oprah to discuss the use of sexist and misogynistic language in hip hop - or more like get berated by black women who just 'ain't gonna take this shit no more.'



Now Russell is calling on the hip hop industry to ban three words from the mainstream media: n****s, h**s & b*****s. And there's me thinking these words were already banned from radio edits.

Then earlier this week Cam'ron appeared on a CNN show called 60 minutes which was looking at the affect rap's 'stop snitchin' campaign has had on crime in urban communities.

When you wanna portray the worse in hip hop you can always rely on Cam...

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What’s funny is that Cam got great promotion in the show; further demonstrating how all this negative stuff is good for business. Anyway who made these guys the rule makers? What has to be stressed to the kids is that these guys will say anything to get that money... its strictly business. They're millionaires. Like 50 said it’s a different financial space, you have to have a different mind-state, they're just acting ghetto to maintain their income.

Don't believe me - look at what happened with the Diddy and Shine case. Diddy took the stand and he's out getting more money than ever before and he's still running the city. Shine felt he would be betraying his principles by getting on the stand; so he didn't and the last time we saw him was when mtv did that interview with him from his jail cell but at least he always gets shouts on tracks hey...

***In case you got the wrong idea: Coffee does not encourage snitchin of any kind***lol