Today's musical society is significantly different from the music of our past. However, Hip Hop as we know it, has brought about mixed feelings and mixed messages.
We complain all the time of how every other race tries to disrespect and degrade the African-American society, or how they just don't understand and refuse to understand the Hip Hop life, because "this is the way we express ourselves". To me, what "Hip-Hoppers" fail to realize, is that what they consider to be an acceptable way of acting or living, when it gets to the outside of their Hip-Hop community, others may not see it that way. Every community has their own terms of what is acceptable and what is not. So if this is the way we are going to express ourselves, then of course there is going to be some type of negative feedback, some type of stereotype.
Now i'm not saying that Hip Hop is the cause of all the negativity, or that it is all together a bad thing, i'm just saying that it does contribute to this negative view.
The N-word has become a euphemism for a ultra-bad negro. At once upon a time in American society, the word nigger used to be the unavoidable word between two conversants engaged in dialogue. These days, Hip-hop have given the N-word new dimensions by personalizing it with "My." An example would be "My Nigger."
It is undeniable that a double standard exists, and it only adds to the communal frustrations of a country trying to eliminate racism from the social equation. However, it would be far from constitutional to outlaw any specific words or subject matters in songs, and would only set the group apart further with any sort of censorship; a true form of oppression
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