The Conundrum of Hip-Hop

 I just got done with the reading for this week and I am glad I can blog an immediate response so that I don't have time to sugar coat or over think my feelings.
  Alright I can't stand the majority of hip-hop,rap,gangster rap, rap you do in yo momma's basement I don't care what you call it or how you define it I am sick of it all. The issue I have with rap is that there is way to much debate and valid points being made to justify its existence or to condemn it to Hell. Personally both arguments are pointless in the end. There is no way to get ride of it, and good luck on cleaning it up because both of the readings are right that that's the image that blacks and whites alike buy monetarily as well as mentally. 
  However I am going to play devils advocate on my own opinion. The only redeeming quality that I see with rap is the fact that it has to be written, and to write it you have to have some knowledge of vocabulary and be literate. Therefore its only saving grace for me is that maybe those requirements are enough to motivate the demographic (Aka intercity youth, or children who grow up in the ghetto for a lack of a better word. )that it effects the most to learn how to do these basic task. It might have better favor at least in my eyes if the dream of becoming the next Jay-z didn't detract from the dreams of being an actual Dr.Jay the kind with a PHD. 
   I plan on working in low income areas and those touched by gang violence because I really hate to see the state of younger black children they deserve more that what they are given. I really wish someone would tell them they are smart enough to get that PHD and that there is more to you than whatever physical talent or skill you may have. That your mind is actually important and that it may take awhile to earn a degree but  its worth the work and the wait. So they know there is  more out there for black boys than a record deal or a sports scholarship there is possibility of being the next Obama. They hear that I am sure because there is some school counselor there telling them that but there has got to be a better way of helping them to succeed other than a pep talk.
    Oh and to be fair I am ill with the critics and defenders of rap. Everything that I have ever read including the readings for this week make the same arguments for and against rap. There is agreement on the fact that it is violent, sexist, and vulgar there is also consensus on the fact that it does give the demographic something to relate too along with the fact that not all hip-hop artist are bad. So I think its time to move on for those who say it has a negative effect work on that negative effect go start an after school program because its not going to change your wasting your breath. As for the advocates who also see more good but can admit the bad go help the critics change the things that you all agree on. I know I have just wasted my brain writing that last sentence because as Americans we will complain all day and never do a freaking thing but keep wallowing in our sorrows.
  I personally hate the majority of hip hop because of the imagines it portrays along with the life style it glorifies. I also hate the tone that most of the artist while they rap and the content is also horrible. But all I can do is get my degree and certifications so that I can have the book knowledge to hopefully change the street knowledge of the youth in front of me.