04/26/07 - James Peterson Discusses Hip-Hop Industry Clean-Up

igotmadstalkers · 04-26-2007, 02:51 AM

Swarthmore College professor James Peterson talked to MSNBC-TV's Contessa Brewer about the recent suspension of two CBS radio shock jocks for racially insensitive comments and mogul Russell Simmons' challenge to the hip-hop industry to clean up the airwaves. Watch the segment, aired Tuesday (April 24), at

8 Ballin · 04-26-2007, 03:26 AM

props

i wuz jus thinkin this, but as we all know the rap industry is at a low point, sales are down, hip hop radio hits are quite hard 2 come by compared 2 the past etc. and besides alot havin 2 do with the internet and downloadin do u think that radio and companies etc. are tryin to push hip hop and rap down so it slowly almost goes away? so they can keep the gun talk, violence, stop snitchin etc. influence from the streets and the youth?

i duno it jus seems like in da past songs like 'hands up' by banks would be played more on radios rather than gettin very little

cuz like when u compare banks, games, and bucks singles from their 1st albums to their 2nd albums, they were huge then..and the songs werent that different, yet they were hardly noticed this time around

g-unitbrooklynsoulja · 04-26-2007, 04:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Chicken Little aka Snitch

props

i wuz jus thinkin this, but as we all know the rap industry is at a low point, sales are down, hip hop radio hits are quite hard 2 come by compared 2 the past etc. and besides alot havin 2 do with the internet and downloadin do u think that radio and companies etc. are tryin to push hip hop and rap down so it slowly almost goes away? so they can keep the gun talk, violence, stop snitchin etc. influence from the streets and the youth?

i duno it jus seems like in da past songs like 'hands up' by banks would be played more on radios rather than gettin very little

cuz like when u compare banks, games, and bucks singles from their 1st albums to their 2nd albums, they were huge then..and the songs werent that different, yet they were hardly noticed this time around

i agree with u on this right here

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8 Ballin Veteran Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,412 Repped: 4 Repped 31 Times in 7 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	props i wuz jus thinkin this, but as we all know the rap industry is at a low point, sales are down, hip hop radio hits are quite hard 2 come by compared 2 the past etc. and besides alot havin 2 do with the internet and downloadin do u think that radio and companies etc. are tryin to push hip hop and rap down so it slowly almost goes away? so they can keep the gun talk, violence, stop snitchin etc. influence from the streets and the youth? i duno it jus seems like in da past songs like 'hands up' by banks would be played more on radios rather than gettin very little cuz like when u compare banks, games, and bucks singles from their 1st albums to their 2nd albums, they were huge then..and the songs werent that different, yet they were hardly noticed this time around