http://www.dropmagazine.com/congress-looks-at-hip-hop-language/ Get the Drop On All Things Hip Hop Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:55:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.dropmagazine.com/congress-looks-at-hip-hop-language/#comment-152 Brian Meredith Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:56:24 +0000 http://www.dropmagazine.com/congress-looks-at-hip-hop-language/#comment-152 Congress needs to stop wasting its time. If this is truly an important problem to address, how can anyone possibly believe that any level of censorship is going keep this language and these themes out of hip-hop? This is the information age. If our freedom of speech was to be ignored and prohibition of explicit content was actually implemented, the internet would be one big rap music speakeasy- as if it already wasn't. Congress needs to stop wasting its time. If this is truly an important problem to address, how can anyone possibly believe that any level of censorship is going keep this language and these themes out of hip-hop? This is the information age. If our freedom of speech was to be ignored and prohibition of explicit content was actually implemented, the internet would be one big rap music speakeasy- as if it already wasn’t.

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