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<blockquote data-quote="RC" data-source="post: 295480"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gingergenius @ Dec 24 2009, 11:50 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=428883" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>But that clearly shows me, how you've never even ventured anywhere near the Bronx, Brooklyn, Jamaican Queens or other such under privelaged areas.</p><p>I'm not talking about the credentials of mainstream hip hop in the naughties - I'm referring to how it's promoting a more positive message. The beats are catchier, and glamorising the music in such a global aspect rather than keeping with hip hop and rap as being a gang related issue is something i think is a great thing.</p><p>I've talked to so many teachers who have seen a remarkable increase in students in their schools. It's not like watching Michelle Pfeiffer teaching in a school as much anymore. More kids are graduating and doing better with their lives, making something of themselves rather than joining gangs etc.</p><p>NYC and it's running government are all boasting that it's down to them that crime levels have dropped and education has progressed, and so it may have, but the music has changed in that time as well. </p><p>I have no idea what is behind all this positivity, but your (and the guardian's) issues with this music is just unfortunate, when people like Will.I.Am openly encourage the positivity of telling kids they can achieve anything, rather than forgetting the black working class and concentrating on the middle america.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RC, post: 295480"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gingergenius @ Dec 24 2009, 11:50 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=428883']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> But that clearly shows me, how you've never even ventured anywhere near the Bronx, Brooklyn, Jamaican Queens or other such under privelaged areas. I'm not talking about the credentials of mainstream hip hop in the naughties - I'm referring to how it's promoting a more positive message. The beats are catchier, and glamorising the music in such a global aspect rather than keeping with hip hop and rap as being a gang related issue is something i think is a great thing. I've talked to so many teachers who have seen a remarkable increase in students in their schools. It's not like watching Michelle Pfeiffer teaching in a school as much anymore. More kids are graduating and doing better with their lives, making something of themselves rather than joining gangs etc. NYC and it's running government are all boasting that it's down to them that crime levels have dropped and education has progressed, and so it may have, but the music has changed in that time as well. I have no idea what is behind all this positivity, but your (and the guardian's) issues with this music is just unfortunate, when people like Will.I.Am openly encourage the positivity of telling kids they can achieve anything, rather than forgetting the black working class and concentrating on the middle america. [/QUOTE]
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