Connect Politic...: Sharpton Calls For Ban On Violent Music Marketing

The recent beefs and shootings around 50 Cent has prompted Al Sharpton to call for a ban on music that uses violence as marketing. I like this idea because it puts pressure on the media outlets who collect the blood money, while the rappers take the bullets.

Sharpton says:

"We may not be able to stop people from shooting, but we can stop people from profiting from the violence."

Makes sense to me. Protesting is for suckers. But boycotts are gully.

However, Jay Smooth and Davey D are not happy Sharpton is entering into the discussion.

Jay says:

"It troubles me that instead of joining with the grassroots movement already organized around these issues, Rev. Sharpton is ignoring/bypassing them and potentially drowning them out with a totally different agenda and focus. It also troubles me that his agenda involves asking the government to step in and regulate hip-hop artists?"

While Davey D says:

"First we have to ask ourselves where Sharpton was over the past few years when these media reform campaigns were first conducted, the most prominent being the ‘Turn off the Radio Campaign’ that was launched and supported by community activists Bob Law, the December 12th Movement, Chuck D of Public Enemy, dead prez, The Zulu Nation and numerous others community organizations in New York."

Davey D goes on to list other movements Sharpton has been absent from, while hip-hop activists have taken the lead (though I am sure Sharpton could list many issues he's taken on that hip-hop has been silent on, like voter registration before the last prez election, and police brutalty before Diallo made it fashionable.)

I think Davey and Jay are making a big mistake by airing out Sharpton publically. If their complaints spread, then they may end up taking focus off the real enemy and just sparking more black leadership infighting. Hip-hop activists should be happy that the headline making Sharpton is latching onto this issue and seek to engage him, rather than wonder "what's his agenda?"

Dag, didn't anyone watch The State of Black Union? Two points that were made is that Black leadership needs to learn how to pull each other's coat without trying to upstage or embarrass, and we need to be unified in the struggle in order to make real progress happen.

Forget mediation between 50 Cent and every other rapper. We need Sharpton and every other Black leader to peace-up first.

Comments

Im with Al on this one there needs to be some regulation for the music industry and the only way that folks understand is to hit them in there pockets. No airplay affects sales.

Posted by: Glen | March 10, 2005 04:36 PM

I remember back in the day when rappers would censor themselves. What's missing from rap music is shame. There's a difference between saying how you feel and saying whatever you want to say.

How can some rappers make some of these records and play them for thier mothers? This is just the effect of 'babies having babies'.

"just my thoughts man - right or wrong"

Posted by: SOHH Blog | March 11, 2005 11:37 AM

If you aint grew up around any black folks or country folks then you probably don't know anything about the word Motherfucker, and few other curse words. I think that cursing should come along with rap because its part of the culture, part of the passion, and part of the "come-up." What i mean by the "come-up" is that a rapper doesnt even appear "real" to a crossover audience if he doesnt say about 20 cuss words a song, I mean white people are even cracking on Will Smith, and thats who he makes music for.

I'm not going into the freedom of speech bit because its trite and overplayed like a 50 Cent track, but I think these rappers are expressing theyselves the best way they know how. It's Real. It's Street. It's Gutter. Thats where these rappers come from, thats where I come from, and thats what they trying to express.

Posted by: KillaCaldwell | April 22, 2005 07:25 PM

Music doesnt cause violence, except for the people trying to emulate, who probably dont have any business being violent anyways. The streets is violent, and the streets is producing people and rappers who will do anything for money, which means move weight, kill snitches, and a few other acts that Rev. Sharpton doesnt feel should be introduced into American Culture. But if it wasnt happening, nobody would rap about it.

Posted by: KillaCaldwell | April 22, 2005 07:29 PM

AL Sharpton cannot talk, he's the one that encited the Crown Heights Riots with his racists rhetoric against the Jewish community.

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