10 Hip-Hop Album Cover Cliches {Streetlevel}

Nov 4th 2009 6:25PM Bobbi:
With all due respect, your commentary is only half-right. It is really easy to say that rappers will do whatever to sell records - considering that most of them have what industry insiders call "slave contracts", the current state of music sales, etc., all artists (not just rappers) are looking to make a buck any way they can.

In terms of content, you seem to have an axe to grind, and I would ask that you consider the artists' entire body of music and not judge them solely on the basis of what gets played on the radio, or played up for the purposes of vilification. I don't disagree that there are some acts whose content is offensive, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, etc. I do disagree with you painting an entire genre/group of artists with that brush. I can think of few genres of music that dont contain, or werent considered, at their time offensive in some way to some one.

Kathy - thanks for a GREAT walk down memory lane. In the words of Common "Keep on..."

Steve.