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DANCE WARS TO
GUN WARS!!!
I remember when hip hop and rap was fun….fun lyrics that projected a fun
vibe! Who’s old enough to remember dance wars and step offs? Times have
sure changed! The days of Kid N Play or Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince are
far and long gone. Now everything you hear is full of violence. Harsh lyrics
that glorify a harsh lifestyle, which in the end leads to the destruction and
devastation of a race. You cant blame the fault of the world on one specific
event or action but let us be real…as we say…keep it 100. Our youth are
dying out here in these streets trying to mimic and live the lyrics that these
untalented morons are now putting out and having the balls to call it art.
Whether they want to be or not, these so called artist are role models to our
youth and what they say matters. Every day you turn on the tv or pick up the
newspaper you’re forced to deal with the realization of how doomed our
youth truly are. If theres not a headline or a special report on a shooting at a
club, park, apartment or neighborhood car wash, the violence is escalating at
an undocumented rate! Children killing each other over nothing or the
POLICE doing it…OVER NOTHING!! Things are not the same as when I was
a teenager..back when rap or hip hop was really taking over the planet…wasn’t
about guns, money and women..well maybe money and women
lol…but we could go to the club or a house party without a shootout breaking
up the party…you had beef? …get your crew and meet us in the middle
of the dance floor..how I miss those days…be careful of what you let you let
your kids listen too…it will effect them more than you realize! Or do you
realize or just don’t care? Lets stop helping the emeny…WAKE UP!!!
Written by:
Billy Sheffield ONE HUNDRED MAGAZINE 27