It seems to me that in our 90's culture, the concepts of romantic love and family have come to be epitomized by statements such as this. I may yet be a young man, and I may identify with hip-hop culture, but in my eyes, certain concepts of the collective have gone awry. Love has been defined as a mutually beneficial physical partnership. In our hearts, we all know this not to be true, but in our everyday walking lives, we've gotten caught up in those lies. As a collective, young people need to begin to question the messages that are presented to them.
Words are man kinds' most powerful tool.
Words start wars, and words heal the deepest hurts, so when someone tells me that the words of a song have absolutely no affect on them, I raise my eyebrows in questioning. We have grown so accustomed to taking what one individual or a segmented group has defined as acceptable for us that we start to believe that theirs is our own rationale. You see, it's easy for a bird to fly into a net and get its wings entangled, but its awfully hard for it to get out. Right now that's where some of us stand caught in a net of deception that our cool and our hip have woven. It's a slow painful process of examining ourselves, learning what it is we really desire, not what we have learned to value, and pulling away from the detriments we have come to embrace.