Hip-hop
As a Commons select committee expresses concern about the influence of rap music on young black males, two leading commentators debate whether hip-hop is to blame for gang violence and glamourising criminal lifestyles. Michael Massive makes a plea for popular culture to reflect the concerns of the moral majority while Matilda Egere-Cooper says that blaming a few foul-mouthed rappers for society’s ills gives them more credit than they deserve.
In Hip hop
In defence of the moral majority
- By Michael Massive
- 19 June 2007
Hip-hop's misogynistic and carbine-infused soundtrack is symptomatic of the creative bankruptcy of popular culture
Don't shoot the messenger
- By Matilda Egere-Cooper
- 19 June 2007
Characterising hip-hop by the rhymes of a few foul-mouthed rappers is giving them more credit than they deserve
