?Hip Hop is on Trial…and Everyone’s Snitching!? Powerful words….huh?!??? When I read those words for the first time, they rang so true to me that a chill ran up my spine.? Hip Hop has been under fire for a minute now and the war is getting bigger and bigger.?? From Don Imus to Oprah the genre has been blasted and the “hip-hop generation” has had to defend it’s actions and words from every angle.??Rodney Carmichael wrote an article the other day in Creative Loafing addressing the issue:

Though the first chapter in T.I.’s federal firearms case drew to a close with his $3 million bond release last Friday, Oct. 26, the rap industry continues to dodge bullets in a year that has been full of nonstop drama. Perhaps DJ Drama’s arrest on racketeering charges at his downtown Atlanta office was an omen. Since then, everything from violent lyrics and gratuitous sexual imagery in videos to the genre’s prolific use of degrading words like “nigga,” “bitch” and “ho” have come under fire.

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