Well truthfully I don't like how artists use music as a tool to glamorize drugs, sex, and alcohol. Too may times have I seen celebrities drugged up and washed up and they still choose that sort of damaging lifestyle. People look up to them as their goal in life, like that's where I want to be. My main beef' with Rap, even know I like it, is how it objectifies women. People hear it and act it out. You can say that people shouldn't be stupid enough to listen to it if they are going to do what the song says, but there are a lot of idiots out there. I've seen a lot of kids basically have sex on the dance floor when the rap comes on, but if rock starts going then the whole mood changes. Again I like Rap, RnB, and Hip-Hop for the variety in music and the different dance styles it offers, excluding of course grinding which really isn't dancing. That said, government doesn't have the right to stop people from making music. How long after censoring music would it leak into other media? Movies, television, books, magazines and newspapers? Personally I don't like the use of the F word in television ot movies. I think it degrades the role of the actor and the creativity of script writers. The use of explitives is a cop out for bad acting. This will get a few laughs, I'll just say S*** or this will add drama D*** it. Let the face act not the words.
How is it a cop-out for bad acting? Same with script writing. Maybe the character is one who uses curses a lot. An actor gives off a mood through the body. Not through the words, you said this yourself. So, how would curses degrade anything of the actors work? In Ireland, there is an amazing writer who died a while ago. Everybody loved his books as they had interesting characters from what would be considered as the Ghettos of Dublin. As you can imagine, they would curse quite often there. It was part of that society. Gettting rid of the curses would have made the characters seem odd, considering where they were from. When the books were made into movies, the cursing went with the characters. It wasn't like they dropped their tone of voice in case their parents heard them or they raised the tone to make it seem like they were doing the 'cool' thing. They were used properly. And please, don't insult movies because they have a curse or a dozen. It's like you said, the acting, not the words.
I rofl at the name of the song. I think he should be aloud to rap about what he wants. There's an explict content warning on the cover of his CD for a reason. Youngians probably shouldn't be listening too it, but parents just don't buy the CD. Also if you hear the song change the station. Introduce your kid to all types of music, if he still chooses this it's up to him. Basdically it's freedom of speach. If you start limiting talk of drug use, then the whole language is gonna get crippled.
Of course people should be allowed to rap about whatever they want. And if people are worried about the impact this kind of music has on their children, maybe they should monitor what their children are listening to more. It all comes down to parenting...or the lack of in some cases.
In my not-so-uncommon "preachy" style, I'd like to say that the decision and responsibility lies with the parents. Until their child is of legal age, they are capable of taking the CD, keeping the child from associated with other kids who have the CD, and so on. As someone who has nothing but contempt for drugs, my parents have always been extremely lenient concerning my musical tastes (even though I'm now 18, lulz). Now, if you have a child who's easily influenced or is desperate to "be cool," it might not be a bad idea to have a nice sit-down and explain/enforce your decision. As far as the artist's right to make the music, I believe it's within American law. If the artist (like you said) practices the words he says and is arrested, that's another story. Simply singing the song, though, is no different than any other musical artist. First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, anyone?