[*DIVA!]

It is so funny that people always want to point to rap as the cause of the problems that face society. Truth is these problems have been here way before rap came into play(even the nastiest of rap music). I've listened to some of dirtiest of rap music around(one of my first rap cds were Eazy E and NWA), and I have never used a drug, committed a crime, been promiscuous, had a child out of wedlock..or aspired to be a video ho!
Rap is like poetry to some: it can do all things..it can heal, it can help tell a story about a life of strife, poverty, frustration, the selling of drugs, and what drug use can do to a community...it can also display the evils of oversexed, over-glamorized distasteful behavior. For every bad rap song/artist there is two. For every 50 cent, Lil Kim, and Lil Wayne there is a Queen Latifah, a Mos Def, or a Public Enemy. And even the vilest of groups like NWA had a message. It might not speak to many, it might turn a lot of people off, however it cannot and did not ruin a society of people. Whatever the problems are rap music didn't not cause them, stopping the selling or making of rap music will not strengthen what ails many a generation of people.

Fix the problems, and stop making excuses or pointing blame to what you think made it go wrong!!