White Trash: Personally it doesn't bother me that those people are against rap. They are narrow minded and make generalizations. I am on their side in some respects, since I think that mainstream media HAS played a major part in a lot of young people today having a complete lack of morals and scope in various areas of their lives. It isn't just music though. And the people against rap are dumbasses, unless they specify that they are against the use of things like derogatory language being used when talking about women, which I am also against.

Although, I should say that I'm not completely against it, for example if a rapper was talking about a particular girl that happened to be a bitch or a hoe and calling them that was just the artist expressing their feelings, then that would be fine. It is not fine when you are jut generally referring to women like that. It's like if people just walked around going "Yeah, last night I was out with some mongrel bastards and I met this fucking dumb cocksucking piece of shit that produces some dope music" instead of saying "Yeah, last night I was out with some friends and I met this dude who produces some dope music."

And also women isn't the only issue I can think of to do with rap, but since it was the Oprah show, I am assuming they concentrated on that.

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