Clean-Up

[Guest]

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/44204111

Sharpton pitches rap cleanup in Detroit

06/03/2007 9:37 AM, AP


The Rev. Al Sharpton has brought his campaign to clean up hip-hop lyrics to Motown, and organizers hope to collect thousands of bars of soap as symbols of the effort.

Sharpton and the Rev. Horace L. Sheffield III, pastor of New Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, talked about the campaign Saturday outside the Motown Historical Museum.

Sharpton said it made sense to promote the hip-hop campaign in Detroit because NAACP leaders plan to conduct a mock funeral for the "N" word during the group's July convention in the city.

"The 1960s were the Motown sound and James Brown," Sharpton said as he stood in front of the museum, which includes the former Motown Records studio. "But they did not call us the 'N' word and they did not degrade women."

The campaign began last month in New York City with Sharpton challenging the recording industry on denigrating lyrics. Organizers say they plan to soon roll out the effort in Los Angeles.


----------------------------------

Local youth in my area held a "burial service" for the "N" word.

 

[Relic]

They should bury the B word and the F word and the S word and the W word from out of their lyrics also, in terms of using them as defining role models of young females.

 

[Guest]

They should bury the B word and the F word and the S word and the W word from out of their lyrics also, in terms of using them as defining role models of young females.

I agree - and I think that it is great that they are starting to clean-up. Don't you agree that it is good to see that they are taking a start?

 

[Quath]

I think the ban should be by consumers and not by law. Let people decide if they like the music and lyrics.

The bigger problem is parents not caring what their children listen to. I think parents should censor music for their children. But for that, all i need isgood labeling of the music.

 

[Guest]

I think the ban should be by consumers and not by law. Let people decide if they like the music and lyrics.

The bigger problem is parents not caring what their children listen to. I think parents should censor music for their children. But for that, all i need isgood labeling of the music.

I do not believe anyone is advocating a law - however, I believe that parents and consumers need to be armed with all available information possible to make wise decisions.

And I believe that the music industry should do a better job of policing themselves - they are responsible for the music that they produce.

I also believe that our church's should be doing more to educate the parents and youth of the danger of violent music, movies, toys, tv shows, etc.