60% think Rap is bad for Teens

~ Do you think teens today are being negatively influenced by the music of rappers such as Puff Daddy, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and others? If your answer is yes, you are in the majority. A whopping 60.2% of the respondents believe rap music has negative influences on teenagers.

Said one outraged mother QUOTE: "My son is singing song lyrics that objectify women and promote violence. These rappers should be promoting things like math skills, geography, and baking."

Rapper Master P answered that charge with the rhyme:

I be bakin' cocaine for the fiends in my "hood Cuttin" grams from Kilos, Slanging from New Orleans to Hollywood, UGHHHHHH!

The unimpressed mom went further with her charge of moral responsibility QUOTE: "These angry black men with their fatalistic views need to realize that they are big role models to white children in the suburbs of America. If Timothy in Beavercreek can't look up to a group of musicians named "Niggaz with Attitude', who CAN he look to for guidance?�