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IO: What are your thoughts on the current state of Rap radio?
There's not one record that I hear on the radio that I think shouldn't
be on the radio. I want to make this clear. There's not one record that
I find offensive. What I find as a yogi... is that God
is everywhere and in everything and they all have reason and if people
are interested in these records, [it's] because they are telling the truth
about our environment. If all Rap ever did was tell everybody what difficulty
a lot of the urban community is living in, then that would be a lot. But
I think we can even do more. More diversity.. We would like to get more
inspirational messages in some cases but it has nothing to do with any
individual. Whether it's Eminem - who I find amusing and fun and rebellious
- or it's Redman or Snoop Dogg. Or whether it's Will Smith or Lauryn Hill,
or Common or Dead Presidents or Q-Tip or Reverend Run or some of the rappers
that you may say are positive, I don't think it's our space to judge them. My
favorite rap record is F*** The Police. So when you see that God is in
all of these places and in all of these things and even in some of the
messages that you may find offensive today you also find what comes from
you. If you want to say something else, then that's good, too.
IO: As a father of a little girl, how do you feel about lyrical
misogyny heard on Rap radio?
'bout what?
IO: Misogyny in rap lyrics. It's rampant on the radio. As a father
how do you feel about it?
I feel... that [it is] for parents to govern what their kids' understanding
[is] of what's in the world. What part of it do they want them to hear
at an early age is the parent's choice and the way they want to explain
to them what they hear - if they hear it. Now if you don't have
parents [who can do that]... then it's a hard world that you've fallen
into... You can't stop sexist statements... There needs to be a real dialogue...
When she's old enough, [my daughter] will hear what she hears and we'll
have a dialogue about it.
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