Comments on: Soul Singer Stevie Wonder is Disappointed with Lil Wayne Over Emmett Till Verse.

By: Melvin

Melvin — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:32:34 +0000

People need to understand that music speaks from people’s experiences not the other way around. You cannot blame a genre of music for the language it utilizes. The environment that has perpetuated this mindset is the increasing cost of basic living and the increasing lack of capababilities required to produce the amount of income to survive. The reason that it is not been stopped is because the powers that be do not care about these children. If it was the case the conditions would have never been created to produce this mindset and language that is put to music and the reason it is supported is because the audience can relate to the level of degradation.

By: Melvin

Melvin — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:55:47 +0000

It is mindblowing that curse words and derogatory language is used in songs when before the early eighties it was unheard. Little Wayne is just completely out of line in every regard. I think censorship is appropriate in media because people can not monitor themselves it is the reason we have government in the first place.

By: sankofa

sankofa — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:34:36 +0000

Wow!!!! So this is the infamous Trinidad James? @Shawn Hudson, I agree it is wrong to blame hip hop solely for the broken homes, however, the entertainment industry, of which hip hop seems to be the main genre with knee-gows, has a heavy influence on the young people and some older ones who never matured. I disagree with Dr. Watkins and that young female that wrote about Wayne. I can’t see how one can disassociate the individual from his actions (as she tries to put it) and I disbelieve Wayne is anything but a nukka. This is 2013, none of us can say we didn’t know. We have a choice to do the right thing or do the wrong thing. Nobody can make us do anything we don’t believe in.

Interesting that on the heels of the manhunt and murder of an African man who had decided to fight for a cause he believes is righteous (against police injustice) we have this coming out about the blatant disrespect of the murder of a 15 year old and some fans are trying to disassociate Wayne’s music from his personality. This compounds an already negative situation and makes us look even lower than I though possible.

By: Shawn Hudson

Shawn Hudson — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:47:42 +0000

I felt the verse was disrespectful but again blaming hip hop for people being too lazy to raise their kids really though? I mean we’ve become a people of winers and complainers we want obama to fix everythign and want everyone else to raise our children but lift up a finger our damn selves. That sir is the true problem with us as a people.