Stop the Blame Game!!!!:Hip Hop is Not the Blame for the Negatives in Society Today

Hip Hop is the music that I grew up listening to because my sisters were teenagers when hip hop really started to become mainstream. They would play LL Cool J's "I need love" and Run DMC's "Walk This Way" with Aerosmith really loud on their boomboxes. I thought this was so cool , I cant wait to get older and do the same.  When I did get a little older maybe around 12 or a little younger ; The first actual song I remember hearing and loving was Jay Z's "The City is Mine". I just loved the beat and the lyrics , I always remember the way I felt  every time I play that song now in my MP3 player.  Then a little later as I got older Hip Hop started to evolve , I would say Tupac (with the help of many others before him) made this happen with his own style that was called "Gangsta Rap". Now that there was another way to express  the way the younger generation feels , people want to start to putting the blame on a genre of music for the way society is now. Which to me is sad to do that.

This blame game the media and others have started on hip hop needs to stop. The arguments of the "blamers" (as I like to call them) is on shaky grounds. Its as if they have never crack open a history book when they was in school. The negative side of society has been put on the blame on the poor since the beginning of the Industrial Age. When cities first started to bulit and the overcrowding started along side it. When that happened slums started to form and with that came the criminals sadly.  Criminals and the crimes they committed have been around since the beginning. One of their arguments was that  Hip Hop promote crime. How can you promote something that has always been there.