A big business that has made normal kids from the hood into superstars and millionaires seemingly over night. These stations show the hip-hop culture in all its unedited glory. Some parents have gone as far as telling children they are not allowed to watch music videos because of its suggestive nature. The negative impact of hip-hop has even diffused itself into other modes of entertainment. Professional wrestling has gone from body-slamming opponents and cheering for the most popular wrestlers, to degrading each other s family in a rap song before the match even starts.
Some parents say yes.
Alvin Possaint, M.D., an author and psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School says our black children are at risk anyway. With fashionable music and other media glorifying a hard-core thuggish life. You re in trouble if as a parent you don t constantly monitor what they listen on the radio and watch on TV early on. Some parents are lulled into a false since of security because they live in an upscale neighborhood far away from the ghetto. Parents are faced the problem of life imitating art, which is so prevalent in hip-hop world.