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I work as a substance abuse counselor with kids. In the years I have been involved in this work I have noticed a pattern. My clients love prominent black rappers. Chief Keef, Lil Wayne, and Boosie Badazz are a few that come to mind. These kids can quite literally recite entire albums by heart but could not quote a single line from the Constitution or their family Bible. I have tried to understand the music, but it is generally glorifying drug use, gangs, violence against women, sex, materialism, or just being a thug. I am not saying all rap music by black artists is this way, but it blows my mind how tolerated and even celebrated some of it is, not just by kids but grown adults. I have generally tried to take a relativistic view of this music, but today I came across this article.
Boosie Badazz Says Television Is Forcing Young Kids to Be Gay | Complex
This is an artist who has a great deal of influence over a lot of young people's minds. Some of them even happen to identify as gay or bisexual. He then shares nuggets of wisdom like these...
Follow that up with if he found out his own son was gay he would "slap his ass back straight" and he would do what he could to beat his child into liking women. To his credit he admits if his blatant child abuse did not work he would find some "crazy way" to deal with it so his son could stay in his life.
This is a tipping point for me with this music. This man talks about a pollution of culture but what do you think he does? Feel free to read the lyrics of some of his songs since I would almost certainly not be allowed to directly post them here.
LIL BOOSIE lyrics
He talks about the entertainment industry monetarIly profiting off of gays but isn't he just profiting off the black community? How does his music do anything but perpetuate the societal ills experienced by the black community? I don't know if you can convert an impressionable young mind into being gay, but I am certain you can convert one into a weed smoking thug who thinks the answer to all life's problems is to become a successful rap artist.
I am really trying to find some peace with all this but it bothers me. This is a sad counterculture. Going to prison is cool. Using drugs is cool. Having several baby mommas is cool. Using violence to prove you are a man is cool. Making money selling drugs is cool. And yet, the media representing more gays is forcing a bad message on developing young minds?
What the hell?
Boosie Badazz Says Television Is Forcing Young Kids to Be Gay | Complex
This is an artist who has a great deal of influence over a lot of young people's minds. Some of them even happen to identify as gay or bisexual. He then shares nuggets of wisdom like these...
"They tryna make everybody ****ing gay," Boosie said. "They putting it on our culture. They’re putting it everywhere. Gay stuff is everywhere. I think that they’re just trying to do it to make a monetary gain. They’re not doing it for the gays. They’re not really fans of the gays. They’re doing it for monetary gain, man. They try to make money off these people, man."
"You got cartoons that have gays. On Cartoons! These are kids. Let kids make their own decision if they wanna go that way. Six and seven year old, five year old shouldn’t be turned onto gay cartoon when their mind not even developed yet. What if they like how that cartoon talk? Now, you’re forcing them to be gay. Every TV show is gays. They’re kissing each other. It’s out of hand."
Follow that up with if he found out his own son was gay he would "slap his ass back straight" and he would do what he could to beat his child into liking women. To his credit he admits if his blatant child abuse did not work he would find some "crazy way" to deal with it so his son could stay in his life.
This is a tipping point for me with this music. This man talks about a pollution of culture but what do you think he does? Feel free to read the lyrics of some of his songs since I would almost certainly not be allowed to directly post them here.
LIL BOOSIE lyrics
He talks about the entertainment industry monetarIly profiting off of gays but isn't he just profiting off the black community? How does his music do anything but perpetuate the societal ills experienced by the black community? I don't know if you can convert an impressionable young mind into being gay, but I am certain you can convert one into a weed smoking thug who thinks the answer to all life's problems is to become a successful rap artist.
I am really trying to find some peace with all this but it bothers me. This is a sad counterculture. Going to prison is cool. Using drugs is cool. Having several baby mommas is cool. Using violence to prove you are a man is cool. Making money selling drugs is cool. And yet, the media representing more gays is forcing a bad message on developing young minds?
What the hell?