What is Hip Hop’s Role in Educating Today’s Youth?

This week on #LFCRadio, we are talking about hip hop’s responsibility to educate todays youth.

 

Admittedly, my teenage years were at the beginning of what is known as the “Golden Age of Hip Hop.” During this time, hip hop was full of emcees and deejays who truly were still  hungry and thought of the rap game as a mode of competition that eventually could help them make a living. Of course, depending on who it was and where they came from shaped their lyrical content. I’d be disingenuous if I fronted like all the hip hop then was “positive.” Matter of fact out of all the “clean” rappers from that era, only two come immediately to my mind as making a lasting impact…Heavy D (RIP) and The Fresh Prince (most of us now know him as Will Smith.) Most other rappers were the personification of bravado and machismo.